Panel: Voices from the Margin – Disability and Inequality in Myanmar
Session 14, Saturday 6 March 10.45 - 12.15 Convened and chaired by Mike Griffiths, Social Policy & Poverty Research Group This panel first presents an overview of a decade of research on disability and inequality in Myanmar, particularly looking at the intersection of gender, disability and geography. This is followed by an in-depth study of disability and self-identity, exploring how religious beliefs intersect with gender to shape the narratives of disabilities amongst people with disabilities and their near-community. The third paper follows this, looking more specifically at how autism is constructed narratively, attempting to analyze the curious phenomenon of the...