Date: TBD

Time: TBD

CFP 26 - Regular: Disability, Mental Health, and Society
Room: TBD

Sponsor: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice

Organizer: Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center

Presiders: Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia
Rebecca Qin, University of British Columbia

Description: 

How do individuals experience, create, and challenge identities of disability and mental illness? How do communities come together to understand, support, advocate for, and research disability and mental health? This session explores the policies, institutions, and organizations that shape individual and community experiences of disability and mental health, and how they are changing. It invites a wide spectrum of papers that develop sociological understandings of disability and mental health.

Papers:

“Embodied Insights: Sensitive Practices for Trauma-Informed Research,” Lauren M. Fishel, The University of Oklahoma

“From Peace of Mind to Peace of Being: Operationalizing Inner Peace for Empirical Research,” Joann Xi and Robert L. Peralta, University of Akron

“Health-Related Visual Social Science: A Methodological Examination of Visual Participatory and Autoethnographic Projects and Experiences,” Luc Pauwels, University of Antwerp

“Named, Blamed, and Maimed: Special Education, Surveillance, and the Regulation of Queer Black and Latine Boys in New York City,” Jocardo Edward Ralston, University of Pennsylvania

“Resisting the ‘Managing-Away’ of Disability: (Dis)Appearing Stories of Voice and Silence in Workplace Accommodations,” Justin Chen, University of Toronto

“The Use of Serious Games in Elementary Schools to Improve Executive Functioning among Autistic Children,” Aisha Maryam Ahmed, Ontario Tech University

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