Our research streams
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Critical decolonial scholarship on communication and disability
Members of Entangle Collective are committed to scholarship and research that unravels the historical and current socio-political conceptualisations of language and disability rooted in colonial, racist, medicalised, ableist and standard language ideologies. We also study and critique how discourses in relation to communication and disability emerging from Global North marginalises histories and epistemologies of Global South and how such unequal power relationships between geographies influence research in communication and disability.
Publications on this topic from our members→
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More than human literacies: place, body and materiality
An overemphasis on talk as cognitive, abstract and a neutral set of ‘tools’ for children to draw upon, has served to conceptually separate language from body and place. Members of the EC collective interrogate this framing of language as abstract, emphasising instead how communication arises from the body, and is shaped by places, atmospheres, movement and relationships.