Disability Politics, Well Being and the Law: Perils and Possibilities

Friday, 11 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: FSE015 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC12 Sociology of Law (host committee)

Language: English

In this panel, we explore disability politics and its intersection with legal discourse from several perspectives. Engaging with the latest research from the fields of occupational therapy, the social sciences, and the law, we seek to put the lived experiences disabled people at the centre of discussion. We will directly address what it means to think about disability justice in the Anthropocene by careful interrogation of the latest insights of our respective disciplines. Bringing together scholars from South Africa, the United States, Canada, and Australia, we seek to address the barriers that have impeded disabled people in multiple social domains including employment, education, health care services, and beyond. For too long marginalized, we consider how topics such as disability harassment, violence, stigma, and invisibility in public and private spaces, such as the home, community, healthcare, and workplace, have impacted the well-being of disabled people. We explore how legal discourse intersects with these lived experiences to permit us to explore new ways of being, living, and working. Our panel directly contributes to the formulation of new research questions and new findings that will foster disability justice in the Anthropocene.
Session Organizer:
Ravi MALHOTRA, University of Ottawa, Canada
Chair:
Joao VELLOSO, University of Ottawa, Canada
Panelists:
Ravi MALHOTRA, University of Ottawa, Canada, Karen SOLDATIC, PO Box 11, Australia, Lieketseng NED, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Cheyanna SAMMY, University of Ottawa, Canada and Susan MAGASI, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Oral Presentations
Harassment and Disability Justice: Rethinking the Place of Workers with Disabilities in the Anthropocene
Ravi MALHOTRA, University of Ottawa, Canada; Cheyanna SAMMY, University of Ottawa, Canada
Disability Inclusion in the South African Health System: Results of a Health System Assessment
Lieketseng NED, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Technology Facilitated Violence Against Women and Girls with Disability in the Sub-Sahara Region: Anthropocentric Intensification, Risk and Resistance.
Karen SOLDATIC, PO Box 11, Australia
The Access Equity Model: An Action-Oriented Framework to Address Health and Participation Disparities Among People with Disabilities
Susan MAGASI, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Invisibility and Judicial Violence: Civil and Administrative Multi-Judicialization in Mental Health at the Intersection of Class, Gender and Race
Emmanuelle BERNHEIM, University of Ottawa, Canada
Critical Methodologies in Disability Studies: Narrative Life History and Institutional Observations in Social Services Analysis
Katalin Lenke ZSILLE, Hungary
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