05:39 Disability Metaphor from within and from without. Disabled people can harness a political position by appropriating a metaphors that have been working against them. They can use metaphors to talk back and break the negative outcomes superimposed upon them. Symbolic gesture to give alternates to the previously common metaphors that discount there agency.
13:34 Negative metaphors using disability conditions, blind, "crippled", "deaf" etc can be harmful when doctors start using these types of idioms in their medical language.
04:30 What disability has to do with metaphor? Contemporary academic discussions around the world are based around the book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson " Metaphors We Live By" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By)
07:30 In blindness the metaphors are full of negative qualities - Darkness, lack of knowledge, invisibility. The reliving of the metaphor from the 1st persons point of view. So PWD can re-define the negative attributes which are cast over them and make them into their own giving the metaphor a positive quality. Taking ownership and demanding to the world a different understanding from the lived experience within while rejecting the negative stereotypes attribute to them from without.
16:27 Sami Shalk - "Metaphorically Speaking: Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Writing" (dsq-sds.org/article/view/3874/3410) In this she sites the example of Bell Hooks (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks) famous feminist writer. She says "men are emotionally crippled" in her book "The Will to Change" (www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Will-to-Change/bell-hooks/9780743480338)
09:14 Metaphors/attributions made from others onto these with disabilities. Knowledge from knowledge making from without. Example in literature such as the beast figure in Shakespeare's Play "The Tempest" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest), the old man with giant wings in Gabrielle Garces Marquis's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" g.co/kgs/uEC66o ( the story deals with superstition and how people make sense of this figure).
20:05 Prof Karah say that we should not stop creatively using metaphors. The thumb rule for choice of metaphor is one should not do harm. Schalk has 4 rules: 1. Do no harm. 2. Take ownership (be responsible). 3. Be accountable. 4. Stop policing - policing for political correctness. It is almost as bad as using a metaphor in a wrong way.
11:26 Metaphors of madness, loony bin, in Chennai "you should be taken to Chilpok" metaphor of being taken to mental hospital. Crippling "crippling argument". "He is spineless", "deaf" the argument and so many more. They promoting the negative view of disability.
17:19 He says that such feminists and activists promoting feminist point of view about patriarchy can use problematic language which promotes harm or oppression of another sector of society ie the disabled. This use of metaphor can stop being innocent, naive or harmless. These negative metaphors can harm disabled persons through circulation in society and normalising disparaging, dismissive or even abusive behaviour towards persons with disabilities.
05:39 Disability Metaphor from within and from without. Disabled people can harness a political position by appropriating a metaphors that have been working against them. They can use metaphors to talk back and break the negative outcomes superimposed upon them. Symbolic gesture to give alternates to the previously common metaphors that discount there agency.
13:34 Negative metaphors using disability conditions, blind, "crippled", "deaf" etc can be harmful when doctors start using these types of idioms in their medical language.
04:30 What disability has to do with metaphor? Contemporary academic discussions around the world are based around the book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson "
Metaphors We Live By" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By)
07:30 In blindness the metaphors are full of negative qualities - Darkness, lack of knowledge, invisibility. The reliving of the metaphor from the 1st persons point of view. So PWD can re-define the negative attributes which are cast over them and make them into their own giving the metaphor a positive quality. Taking ownership and demanding to the world a different understanding from the lived experience within while rejecting the negative stereotypes attribute to them from without.
16:27 Sami Shalk - "Metaphorically Speaking: Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Writing" (dsq-sds.org/article/view/3874/3410) In this she sites the example of Bell Hooks (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks) famous feminist writer. She says "men are emotionally crippled" in her book "The Will to Change" (www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Will-to-Change/bell-hooks/9780743480338)
09:14 Metaphors/attributions made from others onto these with disabilities. Knowledge from knowledge making from without. Example in literature such as the beast figure in Shakespeare's Play "The Tempest" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest), the old man with giant wings in Gabrielle Garces Marquis's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" g.co/kgs/uEC66o ( the story deals with superstition and how people make sense of this figure).
20:05 Prof Karah say that we should not stop creatively using metaphors. The thumb rule for choice of metaphor is one should not do harm. Schalk has 4 rules: 1. Do no harm. 2. Take ownership (be responsible). 3. Be accountable. 4. Stop policing - policing for political correctness. It is almost as bad as using a metaphor in a wrong way.
11:26 Metaphors of madness, loony bin, in Chennai "you should be taken to Chilpok" metaphor of being taken to mental hospital. Crippling "crippling argument". "He is spineless", "deaf" the argument and so many more. They promoting the negative view of disability.
17:19 He says that such feminists and activists promoting feminist point of view about patriarchy can use problematic language which promotes harm or oppression of another sector of society ie the disabled. This use of metaphor can stop being innocent, naive or harmless. These negative metaphors can harm disabled persons through circulation in society and normalising disparaging, dismissive or even abusive behaviour towards persons with disabilities.
14:58 How knowledge systems work. All disciplines make use of metaphors. They particularly us metaphors to portray a point of view.
00:50 What is metaphor? He explains metaphors and that words are not universal but metaphors can be.