The Spread of Deafhood
Jordan Eickman’s paper uses ARC GIS to map and visualise the historical spread of clubs and schools for deaf people in Germany, as a way of exploring the expansion of historical Deafhood and the emergence of Deaf ‘Pillars’, upon which the German Deaf community was/is built.
Jordan’s paper is now available in the Resources Area in two sections.
Mike Gulliver and 
Deaf geographies sandbox 
MM 3:47 pm on March 26, 2012 Permalink |
The fact deaf attend deaf clubs is no indication of the spread of deafhood, if it is it is dead in the UK. I challenge the fact people deaf automatically support deafhood, we reject it, and the writer of their ‘Bible’ is actually an UK resident who could not convince anyone here.
Mike Gulliver 3:59 pm on March 26, 2012 Permalink |
Hi MM – perhaps you’re right – We’re not making any kind of argument for Deafhood here – only reporting the title of the paper and what Jordan writes.
Setting aside the question of Deafhood, is there still interest in the way that clubs and schools for deaf people have spread – carrying language and culture out from a central starting ‘point’ or ‘points’?