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LANCASTER DISABILITY STUDIES CONFERENCE 6-8TH SEPTEMBER 2016 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Conference Image: Still from Figures, performed by Liz Crow (2015). Center for Disability Research Department of Sociology Bowland North Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YN www.lancaster.ac.uk/cedr #cedr16 1 Welcome Welcome to the 2016 Lancaster Disability Studies Conference. This is the eighth and largest conference the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) has hosted here at Lancaster University. We are delighted to welcome over 275 delegates from more than 35 countries comprising post-graduate students, researchers, academics, activists and practitioners, and many who combine a number of these roles. We would like to thank the Department of Sociology, its Head of Department Professor Corinne May, and our CeDR colleagues across the university for their on-going support for the conference and the centre. This year the conference hosts two streams. Mad Studies, convened by Brigit McWade and Peter Beresford, returns after its inauguration in 2014 and the Mad Studies and Neurodiversity – exploring connections symposium also hosted by CeDR in 2015. The Sexuality stream convened by Tom Shakespeare and Kirsty Liddiard marks the 20th anniversary of The Sexual Politics of Disability (Shakespeare, Davies and Gillespie-Sells, 1996). We would like to extend our thanks to the following publishers for their sponsorship: Taylor and Francis, publishers of Disability & Society, have sponsored the drinks reception on Tuesday evening; PCCS books have provided two sponsored places for unfunded delegates to attend the Mad Studies stream; Palgrave have provided two bursaries and Combined Academic Publishers Ltd have provided one bursary. Hannah Morgan and Brigit McWade Conference Organisers 2 Reviewing Committee Peter Beresford, Shaping our Lives & University of Essex, UK (Mad Studies Stream). Nicola Burns, Lancaster University, UK. Chris Grover, Lancaster University, UK. Chris Hatton, Lancaster University, UK. Patrick Kermit, NNDR & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Kirsty Liddiard, Sheffield University, UK (Sexuality Stream). Brigit McWade, Lancaster University, UK (Mad Studies Stream). Michel Moore, Disability & Society, UK. Hannah Morgan, Lancaster University, UK. Alan Roulstone, Leeds University, UK. Tom Shakespeare, University of East Anglia, UK (Sexuality Stream). Karen Soldatic, Western Sydney University, Australia. Carol Thomas, Lancaster University, UK. Simo Vehmas, NNDR & Helsinki University, Finland. Jijian Voronka, Rutgers University, Newark, USA (Mad Studies Stream). 3 Still from ‘Figures’, performed by Liz Crow (2015). Photo Claudio Ahlers/Roaring Girl Productions The image we have chosen to represent the 2016 conference comes from Figures, a mass-sculptural performance by British artist-activist Liz Crow. Liz is the Founder of Roaring Girl Productions, and has been highly influential in the disabled people’s movement. She made an important contribution to developing and extending the social model most notably in ‘Including all of our lives: renewing the social model of disability’ (1996). Previous work includes Bedding Out (2012-13) and Resistance (2008) which included a contribution to Antony Gormely’s One and Other project on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square (2009) where she sat on a wheelchair wearing a Nazi uniform to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nazi campaign of mass-murder of disabled people. Liz is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of the West of England focusing on the development of a humanistic methodology of activism through performance praxis. Figures made visible the human cost of austerity and urges action against it. Liz Crow sculpted 650 small human figures, each representing an individual at the sharp end of austerity, one for each of the 650 UK parliamentary constituencies. The figures were created from raw river mud, dug by hand, and sculpted on the Thames foreshore at low tide over 11 days. Each figure differed in detail, with an individual real-life narrative of the impact of austerity published as they were made. After visiting locations from London to Bristol the figures were raised into a cairn and set alight while the narratives of austerity were read aloud. The burned and broken figures were ground into dust and scattered back to water as a poignant reminder of the human cost of austerity and a call to action. www.roaring-girl.com www.wearefigures.co.uk 4 Programme Tuesday 6th September 2016 10.00: Registration 11.00-11.30: Introductions 11.30-12.30: Keynote: Sara Ryan - What the fuckwhatery? Disability studies, activism and the continuing denial of the human 12.30-13.30: Lunch 13.30-15.00: Paper Session A 15.00-15.30: Break 15.30-17.00: Paper Session B 17.15-18.00: Disability & Society: Meet the Editors 18.00-19.00: Drinks reception including poster presentations and book launch 20.00: Evening meal Wednesday 7th September 2016 09.30-10.30: Keynote: Susie Balderston - Are disabled people human? 10.30-11.00: Break 11.00-12.30: Paper Session C 12.30-13.30: Lunch 13.30-14.30: Keynote: Jijian Voronka - Mapping Mad Studies in movements, knowledge, and praxis 14.45-15.45: Paper Session D and Keynote: Lucy Costa - Madness, violence and other neoliberal spectacles (Mad Studies stream) 15.45-16.15: Break 16.15-17.15: Paper Session E 17.30-19.30: Sexuality Stream Film Screening: Sanctuary introduced by Len Collin 20.00: Evening meal Thursday 8th September 2016 09.30-11.00: Paper Session F 11.00-11.30: Break 11.30-12.30: Keynote: Don Kulick - Fucked: sex, disability and the ethics of engagement 12.30-13.00: Endings & lunch 5 Keynote Speakers Susie Balderston: Are disabled people human? (Main Conference) This presentation illuminates some of the grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s basic human rights in Europe today. It explores how women are contemporarily disabled through systematic violence and State failure to defend our safety, along the continuum of sexual violence through rape, trafficking and sexual abuse in institutions. In this sociological moment of backlash against disabled people’s rights and equality, the United Nations Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities is conducting a confidential investigation into, ‘grave and systemic human rights violations’ by the UK Government. The paper critiques whether women and girls disabled by, and surviving sexual violence, can benefit from human rights law and disability studies in a time of shrinking rights and poor representation.The paper recommends that we re-focus on a struggle towards the substantive equality with disabled or Deaf people and survivors at its core. The presentation proposes that supporting emancipatory, intersectional research, and survivor-led jurisprudence, can emerge as one of the most pressing and important impacts of Disability Studies in the academy today. About Susie Susie works to prevent and tackle disablist hate rape and institutional sexual abuse. She is currently reviewing anti-trafficking policy and interventions, in the UNESCO Gender Research Group at Lancaster University, and lecturing in social policy, disability and human rights, with a focus on addressing intersectional inequalities, improving safeguarding, equality and justice. As Policy and Training Director of Vision Sense (a user-led organisation of disabled people) for 13 years, Susie designs, mentors and evaluates user-led pilot projects in social care, health and criminal justice in England. She was has served as advisor to the EHRC ‘Statutory Inquiry into Disability Harassment’ and ‘Access to Specialised Victim Support Service for Women with Disabilities who have Experienced Violence’ project (funded by the DAPHNE programme of the European Commission). Susie particularly loves dogs because they do not perpetrate disablist hate crime, criminalization of disabled people or preventable deaths in institutions, as far as she has noticed. Susie is proud to be a disabled woman in work; in her lifetime, she would love to be employed in disability studies and see an end to rape. 6 Lucy Costa: Madness, violence and other neoliberal spectacles (Mad Studies stream) Violence is quintessentially one of the most referenced, overused, clichéd and prejudicial “features” in discussions concerning mental health and the people who use services. This presentation explores the possibilities and opportunities for looking at these ‘violence dialogues’ in all their complexity - both from the individual and structural perspective and, as mitigated through the lens of our current neoliberal culture of hyper surveillance, public management, and other disasters, catastrophes and protests. I begin by first drawing from a community organising initiative in 2011 in Toronto, Canada whereby a group of psychiatric survivors, mental health advocates, workers, and community members came together with the purpose of intervening and addressing a string of assaults targeting marginalised persons with psychiatric disabilities which resulted in the death of one vulnerable community member. Next, by providing some conceptual considerations I aim to proceed with questions for collaborative, reflective dialogue in order to engage more critically with violence as it emerges both within our communities and via the ongoing normalisation of state sanctioned violence. About Lucy Lucy Costa works as a systemic advocate in Toronto with the Empowerment Council promoting the rights of mental health clients as well as encouraging critical analysis about service user