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Disability in Dialogue
Edited by Jessica M.F. Hughes and Mariaelena Bartesaghi
[Dialogue Studies 33] 2023
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Introduction

A dialogue about dialogue about disability

 | University of South Florida
ORCID logo | Millersville University
This chapter attunes to dialogue, as we orient to it in our work and spontaneous doings with others. It is a meta dialogue, for in it we find our own utterances and incarnation, emerging and unfolding in the heteroglossia of disability. Our purpose is deconstructive as much as reconstructive, as we want to hear voices of those who speak about dialogue, disability, and the discourses of intelligibility that create our awareness, including that of ourselves. We speak in turns, from proposing a definition of dialogue, to examining the boundaries of disability, disability as social dialogue, and finally, the dialogues between us, as co-editors and academics wary of institutional disablement, that have enabled this book and spoken our words and bodies into being.
Keywords: dialogue, disability, disability studies, discourse
Article outline
  • 1.First turn: Dialogic attunement
  • 2.Second turn: Dialoguing dialogue
    • 2.1Voicing a definition
    • 2.2Dialogic tensions
      • 2.2.1Dialogue as polyphony vs. disability monologues
        • 2.2.1.1Diagnoses
        • 2.2.1.2Disability justice
      • 2.2.2Dialogue as ideal vs. practice
  • 3.Third turn: Disability dialogues
    • 3.1Disability in discourse studies
  • 4.Final turn: Disability in Dialogue: Hearing voices
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 September 2023
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