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Disability Studies: An introduction

Prof. Hemachandran Karah · IIT Madras

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Disability Definition: An Evolving Phenomenon Video
  2. Medical Model of Disability Video
  3. Social Model of Disability: Part 1 Video
  4. Social Model of Disability: Part 2 Video
  5. Stigma: A Universal Phenomenon Video
  6. Stigma and Disability: What can we learn? Video

Week 2

  1. Ableism: Part 1 Video
  2. Ableism: Part 2 Video
  3. Disability Activism Video
  4. Models of Disability Activism Video
  5. Dependency Video
  6. Interdependence Video

Week 3

  1. Blindness Video
  2. Blindness as metaphor Video
  3. Eugenics Video
  4. Disability Pride Video
  5. Disability Resilience Video
  6. Disability Passing: The musings of the blue Jackal Video
  7. Coming out: A performance in disability inhabitation Video

Week 4

  1. Assistive Technology: An interview with Prof. Madhusudan Rao Video
  2. Disability and Ethnography: An Interview with Prof. James Staple Video

Week 5

  1. Schizophrenia: A Personal Account - An interview with Reshma Valliappan Video
  2. Autism and the Indian Family: An interview with Dr. Shubhangi Vaidhya Video

Week 6

  1. Dyslexia and the Modern University: An Interview with Prof. Tanya Titchkosky Video
  2. Gender and Disability: Interviews with Prof. Anita Ghai Video
  3. Gender and Disability: Interviews with Prof. Nandini Ghosh Video

Week 7

  1. Lennard Davis, hemachandran karah, normal, normalcy, disability studies Video
  2. The Normal and its End: Part 2 Video
  3. Literary Disability Studies: An Interview with Dr. Shilpa Anand Video
  4. What is Deaf Culture? An Interview with Dr. Michele Friedner Video

Week 8

  1. Disability and Life Writing Video
  2. Disability and Metaphor Video
  3. Conclusion Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 22-08-2019 Video
  2. Live Session 23-09-2019 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Hemachandran Karah
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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