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‘Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China

The People’s Republic of China is home to over 20 million d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, many among them belonging to ethnic minorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two minority regions, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this article comparatively di...

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Autores principales: Hofer, Theresia, Sagli, Gry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Routledge 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28553018
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1302319
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spelling pubmed-54256262017-05-25 ‘Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China Hofer, Theresia Sagli, Gry Disabil Soc Original Articles The People’s Republic of China is home to over 20 million d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, many among them belonging to ethnic minorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two minority regions, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this article comparatively discusses findings on sign language use, education and state welfare policies. The situation in these domains is analysed through the framework of the ‘civilising project’, coined by Harrell, and its impacts on the d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing among ethnic minorities are shown. For instance, through the promotion of Chinese and Chinese Sign Language over and above the use of local sign and written languages as well as through education and the medicalisation of disabilities. Routledge 2017-04-21 2017-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5425626/ /pubmed/28553018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1302319 Text en © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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