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Ana Pereira

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Thesis Working Title

An Exploration of Chronic Illness between Disablism and Emancipation - Narratives from Portugal and England

Research Interests

I began my PhD at Lancaster University in January 2009 and am based at the Division of Health Research. I am also affiliated with the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) and the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, which mirrors my primary interests in both disability studies and gender and women's studies.

Grounded on the disability studies paradigm of social oppression and treating chronic illness as a category of impairment, I propose to research chronically ill people's experiences of disablism and their emancipatory strategies with a focus in Portugal and England. An interdisciplinary range of theoretical approaches will be explored but this study is firmly grounded on both disability studies and feminist perspectives. Particular emphasis will be given to disability studies' emancipatory paradigms with regards to disability, gender and disability, intersectionality theory and patients' experiences with biomedicine. Fieldwork will focus on uncovering the silent stories and personal narratives of people with chronic illnesses both in England and Portugal, using an emancipatory research paradigm and qualitative research methods to try to understand if and how chronically ill people are excluded and disabled by society and what knowledges and strategies they enact and employ in their daily lives.

.::Contacts

Email: a.pereira@lancaster.ac.uk

.::Publications

Bê [Pereira], Ana (2008), Voyage to the Inside of the Shadow: Disability, Chronic Illness and Invisibility in an Ableist Society. MPhil dissertation, Faculty of Economics/Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Bê [Pereira], Ana (2006), "O Corpo(-)Sentido: Reflexões sobre Deficiência e Doença Crónica". Revista Cabo dos Trabalhos, N.º 2. Revista Electrónica do Centro de Estudos Sociais disponível em http://cabodostrabalhos.ces.uc.pt/n2/ensaios.php ["Embodiment and the Body Felt: Reflections on Disability and Chronic Illness"]

.::Research Papers and Posters Presented at Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

Bê [Pereira], Ana (2010), Our Knowledges; Our Lives: The Importance of Reclaiming Disabled People's Subjugated Knowledges. Critical Disability Studies Conference, 12-13 May, MMU, Manchester, England. - Oral presentation

Bê [Pereira], Ana (2010), Reaching Out to the Margins: Debates around Feminism and Disability. Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 Conference - Continuities and Change, 12-13 March, Ruskin College, Oxford, England. - Oral presentation

Bê [Pereira], Ana (2009), Shifting Perspectives, Heightening Awareness: Weaving Dialogues Between Postcolonial Theory and Disability Studies. Literary, Cultural, and Disability Studies: A Tripartite Approach to Postcolonialism, (1st of June 2009), Lancaster University, Lancaster - Oral presentation

Bê [Pereira], Ana (2009), Invisible Under the Clinical Gaze: Chronically Ill Women's Encounters with Biomedicine. 7th European Feminist Research Conference (4-7 June 2009, Utrecht, Holland) - Oral presentation

Bê [Pereira], Ana (2009), The Willfulness of Non-Normativity: The Hybrid and Fluid Experience of The Chronically Ill Body. The Perfect Body: Between Normativity and Consumerism (organized by the European Science Foundation), (9-13 October, Linkoping, Sweden). - Poster presentation

Bê [Pereira], Ana (2008), Voyage to the Inside of the Shadow: Women, Disability, Chronic Illness and Invisibility in an Ableist Society, 2008 Disability Studies Conference, 2-4 September 2008, University of Lancaster, England. - Oral presentation

Associated research centres: Centre for Disability Research CeDR, Centre for Gender and Women's Studies

Keywords: Chronic illness, Disability, Disability studies, Gender, Gender and health, Health, Health inequalities, Women's studies