Dinner Table Experience in the Flyover Provinces: A Bricolage of Rural Deaf and Disabled Artistry in Saskatchewan

Chelsea Temple Jones (), Joanne Weber, Abneet Atwal and Helen Pridmore
Additional contact information
Chelsea Temple Jones: Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
Joanne Weber: Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
Abneet Atwal: Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
Helen Pridmore: Independent Researcher, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0G3, Canada

Social Sciences, 2023, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: “Dinner table experience” describes the uniquely crip affect evoked by deaf and disabled people’s childhood memories of sitting at the dinner table, witnessing conversations unfolding around them, but without them. Drawing on 11 prairie-based deaf and/or disabled artists’ dinner table experiences, four researcher-artivist authors map a critical bricolage of prairie-based deaf and disabled art from the viewpoint of a metaphorical dinner table set up beneath the wide-skyed “flyover province” of Saskatchewan. Drawing on a non-linear, associative-thinking-based timespan that begins with Tracy Latimer’s murder and includes a contemporary telethon, this article charts the settler colonial logics of normalcy and struggles over keeping up with urban counterparts that make prairie-based deaf and disability arts unique. In upholding an affirmative, becoming-to-know prairie-based crip art and cultural ethos using place-based orientations, the authors point to the political possibilities of artmaking and (re)worlding in the space and place of the overlooked.

Keywords: disability and deaf art; dinner table experience; creative analytic practice; affirmative ethics; Canadian prairie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/3/125/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/3/125/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:3:p:125-:d:1079765

Access Statistics for this article

Social Sciences is currently edited by Ms. Yvonne Chu

More articles in Social Sciences from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().