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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 1h

«Handicap et vieillissement en ville : Déplacements des personnes ayant des incapacités motrices» : cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Handicap et vieillissement en ville : Déplacements des personnes ayant des incapacités motrices

Le vieillissement entraîne des modifications biologiques, notamment des incapacités motrices, qui influencent les habitudes de déplacement et la perception de l’autonomie. Toutefois, il ne devrait pas...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 1h

Juan Camilo Mansilla, François Routhier, et Normand Boucher examinons comment les personnes handicapées motrices perçoivent leurs propres capacités de mobilité par rapport aux conditions environnementales qu'elles rencontrent dans les zones urbaines en ...

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Handicap et vieillissement en ville : Déplacements des personnes ayant des incapacités motrices

Le vieillissement entraîne des modifications biologiques, notamment des incapacités motrices, qui influencent les habitudes de déplacement et la perception de l’autonomie. Toutefois, il ne devrait pas...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 20h

*pretends to have no idea what is going on*

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 1d

We also have some exciting news on the reviews front coming soon!

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 1d

and theoretical approaches (e.g., critical theory, intersectional feminism, conflict theory), are also helpful in addition to disability-specific topics (e.g., disability justice, built environment, disability representations in film).

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 1d

Please be as specific as possible in adding topics you'd like to review. Research methodologies (e.g., ethnography, discourse analysis, poetic inquiry), countries and/or geographic regions (e.g., Canada, Global South), ...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't already, please fill out the Google Form so your information can be added to the reviewer database: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If the Google Form isn't accessible to you, send us a PM and we will arrange an alternate format.

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Reviewer Database

Hi there. The information collected in this form will (hopefully) help us with acquiring reviewers for monographs (as well as films and other media) in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Pl...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 1d

Traditionally, CJDS reviewers have mostly assessed books, but in the future, we will also be asking folks to review other genres (e.g., film, poetry).

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 1d

TL;DR we need more reviewers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Longer post coming via thread.

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Reviewer Database

Hi there. The information collected in this form will (hopefully) help us with acquiring reviewers for monographs (as well as films and other media) in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Pl...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 2d

“Designing for All: A Comparison of Usability and User Experience in an Adapted Gym and a Conventional Gym” is available at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Designing for All: A Comparison of Usability and User Experience in an Adapted Gym and a Conventional Gym

Despite the development of accessibility guidelines for fitness and recreational facilities, people with a disability continue to encounter a multitude of environmental barriers that can hinder their ...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 2d

Mitchell, Mogyorody, Scharoun Benson, Horton, & van Wyk considered how universal design practices implemented in a gym would impact diverse participants’ perceptions of usability and user experience in the adapted gym compared to a conventional (unmodified) gym.

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Designing for All: A Comparison of Usability and User Experience in an Adapted Gym and a Conventional Gym

Despite the development of accessibility guidelines for fitness and recreational facilities, people with a disability continue to encounter a multitude of environmental barriers that can hinder their ...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 6d

This review of 47 publications is available at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on IBPOC with Disabilities and their Networks: A Scoping Review

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour (IBPOC) with disabilities, yet intersectional effects remain underexplored. As such, following guidelines ...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 6d

In “Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on IBPOC with Disabilities and their Networks: A Scoping Review,” a team of authors explored the impact of COVID-19 on minority-status IBPOC populations with disabilities and their networks.

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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on IBPOC with Disabilities and their Networks: A Scoping Review

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour (IBPOC) with disabilities, yet intersectional effects remain underexplored. As such, following guidelines ...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 8d

Last month, we released the second issue of Volume 14 of CJDS. If you’d like to take a look, you can access the full issue at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

We will also promote the articles in this issue throughout October. More starting Friday!

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2025) | Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 13d

...in “Access to work or liberation from work? Disabled people, autonomy, and post-work politics.” More: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Access to work or liberation from work? Disabled people, autonomy, and post-work politics

Waged work has been a central issue for the Disabled People’s Movement since its inception. For example, the influential analysis of the pioneering Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 13d

Examining critiques of work and workerism from anarchist, autonomist, and feminist writers, Steven Graby identifies theoretical currents that conceptualize disabled people’s liberation as requiring a much more fundamental rejection of the values of capitalism... 1/2

Access to work or liberation from work? Disabled people, autonomy, and post-work politics

Waged work has been a central issue for the Disabled People’s Movement since its inception. For example, the influential analysis of the pioneering Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 16d

Grover argues that attempting to address the economic disadvantages disabled people face through market mechanisms will entrench, rather than address, those disadvantages. “Commodification, disabled people, & wage work in Britain” is available at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

Commodification, disabled people, and wage work in Britain

This paper focuses upon the development in Britain of a new out-of-work benefit, the Employment and Support Allowance —and a new employment service intervention (the Work Programme) which is supposed ...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 20d

...was that the financial support system for accommodating Deaf/Hard of Hearing faculty members in higher education varied among countries. More: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Analysis of the Benefits of Deaf Faculty Classes for University Students and the Costs of Accommodation of Deaf Faculty Members: An International Comparison

While many universities have developed disability services and research projects for disabled students, only a handful have extended such services and initiatives to disabled faculty members. This stu...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 20d

A takeaway of Yabe’s “Analysis of the Benefits of Deaf Faculty Classes for University Students & the Costs of Accommodation of Deaf Faculty Members: An International Comparison” ... 1/2

Analysis of the Benefits of Deaf Faculty Classes for University Students and the Costs of Accommodation of Deaf Faculty Members: An International Comparison

While many universities have developed disability services and research projects for disabled students, only a handful have extended such services and initiatives to disabled faculty members. This stu...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 23d

Pssst.

A new issue (our 50th!) of CJDS just dropped!

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Vol. 14 No. 2 (2025) | Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 24d

The article “Predictors of Employer-Sponsored Disability Accommodation Requesting in the Workplace,” is available at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

Predictors of Employer-Sponsored Disability Accommodation Requesting in the Workplace

Employer-sponsored disability accommodation is contingent upon employees being willing to request such accommodation. This paper examines individual, organizational, and institutional predictors of ac...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 24d

Katherine Breward analyzes individual, organizational, and institutional predictors of accommodation requests among adult workers with disabilities using data collected from 5,418 respondents to a Statistics Canada post-census survey. 1/2

Predictors of Employer-Sponsored Disability Accommodation Requesting in the Workplace

Employer-sponsored disability accommodation is contingent upon employees being willing to request such accommodation. This paper examines individual, organizational, and institutional predictors of ac...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 27d

...allowing people with disabilities to use their potential and find fulfillment in the labor market while often improving their financial conditions. More: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

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Between Protection and Activation: People with Disabilities in the Social Investment State

Federal and provincial employment and income policies in the field of disability within the evolution of Québec’s welfare state are reviewed from the analytical perspective of the social investment st...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 27d

In “Between Protection and Activation: People with Disabilities in the Social Investment State,” Lucie Dumais and Léonie Archambault demonstrate that the logic of social investment and activation of the workforce yielded gains consistent with the disability movement’s claims,...

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Between Protection and Activation: People with Disabilities in the Social Investment State

Federal and provincial employment and income policies in the field of disability within the evolution of Québec’s welfare state are reviewed from the analytical perspective of the social investment st...

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cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · 27d

Pssssst. Position closes on Monday.

cjds2012.bsky.social @cjds2012.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hey! Hi! Hello!

Reminder that we're looking for a (volunteer) book reviews editor: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj...

Position closes September 15, 2025.

Call for Applications: Book Reviews Editor | Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

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