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Lud
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2015
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vol. 99
271-295
EN
In this article, I draw on my research into the lives of blind people that has been conducted since 2011. Research participants consist of twenty two persons aged 18-43 living in Poland; most of them have been blind since their birth or early childhood. In my research I mainly focus on the diversity of strategies and tactics, which help blind individuals to construct their own lives, manage relations with other people and institutions,and relate to their own sense of otherness. In this article, I analyse experiences of the blind against the background of values and meanings attributed to the sense of sight and the concept of seeing and being visible in Western culture. Thus, the article aims at answering the following research questions: How do the blind understand and imagine the mechanism of vision and the ability to see? How do they utilise this knowledge for their own needs? How do they use words and expressions based on visual association and metaphors? How do they understand the elements of nonverbal communication, facial expressions, and gesticulation? How do they understand the concepts of appearance and image? In the process of describing the participants’ opinions and feelings, I attend to the stages and dimensions of this ‘visual socialisation’ of the blind and juxtapose it with a number of broader issues, such as disability, stigma management, femininity, and gender.
PL
Tekst jest owocem współpracy między Kamilem Pietrowiakiem, prowadzącym badania etnograficzne na temat budowania dorosłości i samodzielności przez osoby niewidome (18–40 lat) oraz dwoma uczestniczkami badań – Sandrą Tworkowską i Joanną Zdobylak. Metodyczną i etyczną inspirację artykułu stanowią postulaty collaborative ethnography wyrażane przez Luke’a Erica Lassitera i badania społeczne przez wspólne doświadczenie Anny Wyki, według których warto dążyć do otwartej współpracy z uczestnikami badań na każdym etapie ich prowadzenia, w tym także w miarę możliwości pisać wraz z nimi wspólne teksty etnograficzne. Idąc za tą myślą, autorzy stworzyli wielogłosową prezentację wiedzy, odczuć i opinii na temat wybranych zagadnień związanych z życiem młodych osób niewidomych. Do poruszanych kwestii należą: wzajemne postrzeganie się i współżycie osób widzących i niewidomych; dominacja wizualnego modelu kultury; dostępność i dostosowanie różnych wymiarów świata do potrzeb osób niewidomych.
EN
The article is the result of collaboration between the author, whose ethnographical research focuses on the ways of building adulthood and self-reliance by blind people at the age of 18–40, and two of his consultants – Sandra Tworkowska and Joanna Zdobylak. Methodological and ethical inspiration for this undertaking are taken from in the Luke E. Lassiter’s conception of collaborative ethnography, as well as the idea of social research through shared experience promoted by Anna Wyka. According to these researchers, it is recommended to aim at open collaboration with interlocutors at all of the research stages, including writing ethnographic. Following these ideas, the authors created a polyphonic presentation of knowledge, feelings and opinions on the subjects connected with the life of the blind. These include the mutual perception and coexistence of the blind and the sighted, the domination of the visual model of culture and the accessibility of various elements of the world for needs of the blind.
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