It gives me an immense pleasure in letting you know that The Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, will be hosting a
special talk entitled: 'New disability mobilities and accessibilities in urban India', to be delivered by Michele Friedner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Anthropology program, USA. Venue: SAP room of the Department of sociology, 6th-March-2014, Thursday, at 2:30 PM. Abstract This talk ethnographically analyzes the emergence of new disability mobilities and accessibilities in urban India and asks who benefits from them. The category of disability has become a privileged site for the state and NGOs to situate development interventions and for corporations to engage in corporate social responsibility initiatives. These state, NGO, and corporate efforts are directed at a specific kind of disabled individual and are heavily based upon market logics. Utilizing data from an international transportation and tourism accessibility conference held in New Delhi, a technology and disability conference held in Bangalore, and a new accessible taxi service that recently started in Bangalore, this talk critically examines these new mobilities and accessibilities and argues that we are witnessing a new assemblage of state, NGO, and corporation around disability. This talk also pushes analysts and activists working in the arena of disability to be more specific in their treatment of the concepts of mobility and accessibility. **** Medical anthropologist by training, Michele Friedner is interested broadly in the areas of health and bodies, neo-liberalism and new structures of "opportunity," social movements, etc. Friedner is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Anthropology program, and will be joining the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook as an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Technology and Management. Looking forward to meeting you! For any clarification, feel free to contact me on my mobile: 8374701417. Annavaram N., Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Hyderabad. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
