Modes of ordering disability: students living with visual disabilities in the Sultanate of Oman

Modes of ordering disability: students living with visual disabilities in the Sultanate of Oman

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This article examines how a group of students with visual disabilities speak about becoming disabled and living with disability in relation to: material entities, practices, and their own expectations regarding the future in the Sultanate of Oman.It draws upon individual interviews among six adults with visual disabilities.The article outlines, from a material semiotics turbo air m3f24-1-n approach, how various forms of modes of ordering enact disability.An interdisciplinary approach, informed by disability studies and science and technology studies, is implemented to interpret: How do students with visual disabilities express the relationships between material entities (such as bodies and technologies) and practices? In what ways are these relationships enacting different modes of ordering disability? What kind of modes of ordering disability are the participants experiencing in their lives? How have read more they responded to the modes of ordering that they have encountered?.