Cleall, E. (2015) Deaf Connections and Global Conversations: Deafness and education in and beyond the British Empire, ca. 1800-1900. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 16 (1).
Abstract
This article argues that, despite strong metaphorical ties between deafness and the inability to connect, nineteenth-century deaf networks provide an excellent example of how ideas and identities circulated through transnational and transcolonial networks. Educational institutions facilitated the spread of signing. Deaf pedagogies were developed and contested across multiple sites. Ideologies of ableism (the privileging of the young non-disabled body) intersected with changing attitudes towards race. And embodied knowledges of deafness circulated as deaf individuals moved around the globe and formed transnational communities. Tracing deaf connections also enables us to think about the extent to which colonial networks intersected with networks in the US and continental Europe.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This article first appeared in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2015 |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2015 14:06 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2015 06:10 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cch.2015.0006 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/cch.2015.0006 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90897 |