Open AccessA Persian Alice in Disability Literature Wonderland: Disability Studies in Iran
Author(s) -
Negin H. Goodrich
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
disability studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2159-8371
pISSN - 1041-5718
DOI - 10.18061/dsq.v34i2.4255
Subject(s) - persian , medical model of disability , psychology , qualitative research , disability studies , politics , political science , psychiatry , gender studies , sociology , social science , law , linguistics , philosophy
Exploring major requisites to establish an Iranian disability studies, the aim of this study is to determine how a local literature of disability can be formed in Iran, as well as how the Iranian and global disability studies might interchange disability knowledge. In an analysis of the responses to a qualitative questionnaire, three themes emerged: rudimentary resources, disability literature, and political prerequisites. Accordingly, human and financial resources, a bank of Farsi and English literature on disability, as well as developing academic relations between Iranian and international disability scholars (as an outcome of improving the Iran-USA political affairs) are essential to form a local disability studies in Iran and to engage it in the global discussions of disability studies. Keywords: disability, global disability studies, Iran