https://mla.hcommons.org/members/aimihamraie/activity/ Activity feed for Aimi Hamraie. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:31:18 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 027513e2fc58691c02f5b8b1d3bf87d7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622274/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:25:37 -0400 Crip technoscience

]]> 0 6031c370d8bb5c7c31b32097429bf73b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622273/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:25:35 -0400 Shortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]

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]]> 0 64f1a7dd204bd9db9c0129284be99905 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622271/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:25:33 -0400 Shortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc54bb28ac59f31d506a8838111b4fc3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622270/ Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:25:22 -0400 New digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]

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]]> 0 6711cc5667db32b1713667742b1f6ad2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622175/ Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:22:58 -0400 Shortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a88f17ae2b2691bc40e675dffc8e55f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622173/ Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:18:49 -0400 New digital projects use geographic information systems (GIS) and crowdsourcing applications to gather data about the accessibility of public spaces for disabled people. While these projects offer useful tools, their approach to technology and disability is often depoliticized. Compliance-based maps take disability for granted as medical…[Read more]

]]> 0 75e4ee572e5b7ce0b525c125626be6de https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1588016/ Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:43:54 -0500 0 3ead0be8e11ed2a1e5621a8caa232932 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573116/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 As a feminist disability studies scholar working on issues of accessi – ble and inclusive design, my participation in the Critical Health, Age, and Disability Collective (CHAD) in summer 2014 was my first introduction to the field of age studies. I was surprised to find how little my training had taught me about how to think critically about age…[Read more]

]]> 0 7eea9975f00ae6cb30cd8bbfaecc4f3e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573115/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper returns to UD as a design phenomenon, considering knowledge production practices as conditions…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1aff9c394b16767a98e06becf78fe7e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573114/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 Universal Design (UD) is a movement to produce built environments that are accessible to a broad range of human variation. Though UD is often taken for granted as synonymous with the best, most inclusive, forms of disability access, the values, methodologies, and epistemologies that underlie UD require closer scrutiny. This paper uses feminist and…[Read more]

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]]> 0 b999ce3320b4e53743c8dd60c7c5bf7c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573112/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 In feminist technoscience studies (FTS), the term technoscience conveys that scientific knowledge and technological worlds are active constructions of entangled material, social, and historical agents. Feminist analyses of assisted reproduction, environmental harm, digital media, and cyborg bodies constitute some of the work of FTS, a close…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3815c68bfa3a627b5c391c620042a09 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573111/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 Disability has become a hot topic for feminist philosophy in recent years. Special issues of Hypatia and Disability Studies Quarterly, multiple conference keynote addresses, and a growing cadre of scholars are exploring the intersections of feminist and critical disability thought. As a disabled feminist scholar, I perceive these trends as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d611ab4ec56d8698e402bd1ff4feedca https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573110/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 In this paper, I argue for historical epistemology as a methodology for critical disability studies (DS) by looking to Foucault’s archaeology of cure in History of Madness. While the moral, medical, and social models of disability frame disability history as a progressive movement and replacement of moral and medical authority with s…[Read more]

]]> 0 801496ed830c4aa77312efa6a5048a14 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1573109/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 01:00:46 -0400 Although Universal Design gains popularity as a common sense strategy for crafting built environments for all users, accessibility for disabled people remains a marginal area of inquiry within design practice and theory. This article argues that the tension between accessibility and Universal Design stems from inadequate critical and historical…[Read more]

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ble and inclusive design, my participation in the Critical Health, Age, and
Disability Collective (CHAD) in summer 2014 was my first introduction
to the field of age studies. I was surprised to find how little my training
had taught me about how to think critically…[Read more]

]]> 0 42a321005c0f115fef40165b33236394 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572967/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:03:22 -0400 In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper returns to UD as a design phenomenon, considering knowledge production practices as conditions…[Read more]

]]> 0 5de7c39582ce5f642613df50c9161953 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572966/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:01:27 -0400 Universal Design (UD) is a movement to produce built environments that are accessible to a broad range of human variation. Though UD is often taken for granted as synonymous with the best, most inclusive, forms of disability access, the values, methodologies, and epistemologies that underlie UD require closer scrutiny. This paper uses feminist and…[Read more]

]]> 0 95f5ab43d9fe267c8dfff4f155ee37f2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572963/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:59:05 -0400 On geopolitics, disability rhetoric, and the CRPD

]]> 0 3f84dfdee447a60da737308d6e1f89ab https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572956/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:47:36 -0400 In feminist technoscience studies (FTS), the term technoscience conveys that scientific knowledge and technological worlds are active constructions of entangled material, social, and historical agents. Feminist analyses of assisted reproduction, environmental harm, digital media, and cyborg bodies constitute some of the work of FTS, a close…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4826cb5084d7f2664065cf240849f05 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572948/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:42:18 -0400 Disability has become a hot topic for feminist philosophy in recent years. Special issues of Hypatia and Disability Studies Quarterly, multiple conference keynote addresses, and a growing cadre of scholars are exploring the intersections of feminist and critical disability thought. As a disabled feminist scholar, I perceive these trends as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a95dd723f284e69ae80a49478fd49b15 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572947/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:37:50 -0400 In this paper, I argue for historical epistemology as a methodology for critical disability studies (DS) by looking to Foucault’s archaeology of cure in History of Madness. While the moral, medical, and social models of disability frame disability history as a progressive movement and replacement of moral and medical authority with s…[Read more]

]]> 0 0500ea1c27aee97706b54205edfb9e34 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1572946/ Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:32:40 -0400 Although Universal Design gains popularity as a common sense strategy for crafting built environments for all users, accessibility for disabled people remains a marginal area of inquiry within design practice and theory. This article argues that the tension between accessibility and Universal Design stems from inadequate critical and historical…[Read more]

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