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A Comparative Analysis: Everyday Experiences of Disability in Sierra Leone
Ist Teil von
Africa today, 2011-12, Vol.58 (2), p.19-40
Ort / Verlag
USA: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In this article, we compare conceptions of disability in Sierra Leone using the theoretical category of "““victimhood."”” We show how it intersects with how: 1) traditional perceptions of disability locate a person within a moral economy of blame and social remedies, 2) how disability discourses within a segregated setting are being affected by multiple postconflict ideas around victims and victimization, and 3) how dependency and success are created as disabled people internalize or reject the victimization. In these ethnographic snapshots of the everyday, we hope to show how people reinterpret discourses around disability to suit their own needs in fluid, multilayered, and sometimes even contradictory ways.