Readers of the Village Voice were treated to an articulate review of the field of Disability Studies in the article by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow The wheel world: Is disability studies academia's next frontier?" Disability Studies scholar -- and avid traveler -- Simi Linton explains in the piece,
"The curriculum had traditionally housed disability in a very sequestered area—how to fix people and take care of them. Disability studies is us looking out at the world and seeing how that looks to us." It also critiques "how disability is represented in all kinds of texts—in literature, film, the annals of history."
It is no surprise that the disability studies field also monitors carefully for inclusive travel developments in the travel and hospitality industry. The field of Disability Studies provides the intellectual motivation and rigor behind the growing literature in tourism and people with disabilities.
Source: http://villagevoice.com/arts/0531,education5,66456,12.html
Posted by rollingrains at August 5, 2005 06:26 AM