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Narrating Digital Access, Trauma, and Disability Through Comics and Image Description in Denmark

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Anthropologists explore sequential art, particularly comics, as an accessible medium to co-produce knowledge about trauma and disability with research collaborators. However, practices of image description developed by blind scholars and artists need to be integrated into these projects to ensure visual studies are accessible. Collaborating with sighted service users of drop-in centers in Denmark, we reflect on the process of creating comics and image descriptions about their experiences with digital access, trauma, and disability. By analyzing insights from both drawing and describing images, we propose this method in medical anthropology as one way to build research collaborations that embrace disability expertise.

Source: Medical Anthropology

DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2023.2267164

Authors: Barbara Nino Carreras, Brit Ross Winthereik

Institutions: IT University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark

Language: English

Topic: Comics and Graphic Narratives

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: NordForsk