Kerschbaum identifies a significant gap in current scholarship, noting that interactional analyses of disabled people talking together are "much rarer" than accounts involving service providers or researchers. She highlights Wan’s focus group in chapter 7 of three hard-of-hearing women as a valuable exception that reveals complex tensions around identification. Consequently, she urges future researchers to investigate how discursive constructions might shift in contexts where disabled people interact directly with one another, removed from the influence of medical practitioners.

Study 'Crip' Interactions

Integrating materialist disability studies with discursive psychology allows for a deeper exploration of how power relations influence the ability of interlocutors to resist or reshape notions of disability. It is crucial to recognize that these interactions occur within contexts that are "suffused with the ideological contradictions" of ableism, which dictate the boundaries for naming, claiming, and defining disability.

Methodological Shifts

- Study 'Crip' Interactions
- Methodological Shifts

State University of New York at Binghamton

Stephanie L.,Kerschbaum wrote this chapter is a response to the previous empirical chapters (Wan (chapter 7); Gabriel & Kelley (chapter 6); Stinesen et al. (chapter 4)). It synthesizes their findings through a Disability Studies (DS) lens, arguing that Discursive Psychology (DP) must account for the material world and systemic ableism to fully understand how disability is constructed.

Chapter 10 - Engaging Disability Studies (DS) & Discursive Psychology (DP)

Lester, J. N. (Ed.). (2021). Discursive Psychology and Disability. Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Reference For: Discursive Psychology and Disability

- The Material Surround
- Evidence from Reviewed Chapters
- Research Implications

Materiality and Discourse

- Defining the 'Ideology of Ability'
- The Role of Relationships
- Critique of Current Research

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