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

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  • 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)

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.

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  • Chelsea Temple Jones & Joanne Weber & Abneet Atwal & Helen Pridmore, 2023. "Dinner Table Experience in the Flyover Provinces: A Bricolage of Rural Deaf and Disabled Artistry in Saskatchewan," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-19, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:3:p:125-:d:1079765
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    1. Dymitrow Mirek & Brauer Rene, 2017. "Performing rurality. But who?," Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, Sciendo, vol. 38(38), pages 27-46, December.
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