Disability and Reparations: From Haunting to Hope (Zoom)

How do we reckon with and repair the injustices of institutionalizing disabled people? Haunted house attractions, exclusive housing estates, and abandoned buildings are some of the common afterlives of disability institutions … justice and reparations are not. However, there is increasing momentum at the international human rights and local community levels for truth-telling and reparations towards disabled people who experienced institutionalization. In her keynote, Associate Professor Steele introduces the human rights and philosophical reasons why reparation is necessary and discusses some ways in which governments and communities are already engaged in these practices.

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