Groce, Nora Ellen;
(2024)
Folklore and Disability: An Important-and Too Often Overlooked-Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts.
Journal of American Folklore
, 137
(545)
pp. 331-339.
10.5406/15351882.137.545.05.
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Abstract
In this paper, I argue that the field of folklore and folklorists can-and should- make more of a contribution to global health and international development efforts and should be more involved in conversations about social justice and human rights. Drawing on my invited comments at the webinar sponsored by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society entitled "Interrogating the Normal: Folkloristic Engagements with Disability,"held on March 25, 2022, I provide some examples of research that my colleagues and I have undertaken where we have brought folklore and oral history approaches to disability-related global health and international development initiatives. I discuss how this knowledge has broadened our ability to ask and answer important questions. Based on my own experience, applied folklore can provide insight and generate new questions that can improve the lives of persons with disabilities. I encourage folklorists to seek out and undertake future collaborations with researchers and community groups working to improve health and well-being around the world.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Folklore and Disability: An Important-and Too Often Overlooked-Factor in Global Health and International Development Efforts |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5406/15351882.137.545.05 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.137.545.05 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | (from the AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus and Library of Congress, Arts & Humanities, Arts & Humanities - Other Topics, disability rights discrimination against people with disabilities, folk beliefs world health development deaf culture disabilities,, Folklore, ISSUES, Subject Headings) applied folklore disabled persons anthropology, |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214001 |
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