How you language is who you are; language shapes your identity, relationships, and experiences. The Crip Linguistics Reader is a wide-ranging and groundbreaking collection that challenges normative ideas about what is considered “good language.” This volume draws on the expertise of contributors across a variety of fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts; these writers bring an interdisciplinary and critical disability perspective to languaging by challenging dominant paradigms in linguistic inquiry. Essays include a wide range of topics, such as examining the relationship between disability and race in the context of language, investigating the compulsory nature of specific forms of language education, elucidating forms of linguistic care, and exploring the transmission of ableist ideologies about language. An essential read for scholars and educators, this collection showcases Crip Linguistics as an analytical framework that will transform ideological boundaries of language and communication along with our understanding of what languaging can be.

Deaf Mobility Studies revolutionizes how we think about deaf people’s international experiences. Equipped with a common theoretical framework, a team of five deaf ethnographers journeyed alongside their participants to delve into a rich array of experiences — ranging from career advancements and marriages to tourism and the challenges faced by deaf refugees. The authors present their findings within the framework of Deaf Mobility Studies, which brings together the transdisciplinary fields of Deaf Studies and Mobility Studies. Far from taking 'deaf cosmopolitanism' as a given, this work scrutinizes it as a multifaceted phenomenon to be both affirmed and questioned. Themes that emerge include how deaf people seek spaces of belonging, engage in languaging, expand their networks, and experience immobility.

The text is augmented by direct links to clips in nine ethnographic films, analysis of selected film excerpts and screenshots, and compelling data visualizations. QR codes throughout the book link to the film clips to create this dual narrative experience. Deaf Mobility Studies is an expansive odyssey through the complexities and opportunities inherent in deaf international mobility.


Deaf Mobility Studies: Exploring International Networks, Tourism, and Migration © 2024 by Gallaudet University is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.