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274 Index

Nummijoki, J., 233

Nussbaum, Martha, 14, 21, 25, 124, 173, 204,

206, 209, 210

Obama, Barack, 12

Obasi, C., 51–52

objectivism, 39–40

Olbrechts-Tyteca, S., 39

Ong, A., 207

ontology of becoming, 156, 160

oppression, effects of, 184–85, 196

oralism: impact of, 78; rhetoric of, 66

origin stories, 164, 170–71, 181

outsider-within, 46n11

Padden, Carol, 27–28, 41, 42, 48–49, 164,

179, 207–8

Padden-Duncan, T., 194

paradox of researching empowerment in

disempowering context, 196–205

partnership, practicing, 24–33

paternalism in deaf education, 70–71

Paul, P., 40

Pease, B., 68–69

peer interaction at Gallaudet, 91, 94

Pels, P., 234

People Theater, 224, 225

Perelman, C., 39

performance ethnography, 108

Peterson, C., 201

Petrella, Fernando, 221

phonocentrism, 99

Pinxten, R., 25–26, 37, 39–40, 49, 83, 84,

85, 188, 195, 197, 213

Pistorius, A., 225

politicization of deaf identity, 14, 135–41

Pols, J., 31

positionality, 176, 178

positive revaluation, 66

postdoctoral scholar, author experience as,

205–6

potentiality, 134, 154, 156

power effects and empowerment, 132–34

power governmentality, 69

publications, focus of, 197, 198, 204

quality of life: focus on, 21–23; well-being

compared to, 209

quest for deaf identity and deaf studies: cracks

in mirror and, 164–71; desire and,

161–63

Rancière, J., 116, 121

received view of science, 38

Reilly, C. B., 47

relational narratives, 141

relational ontological perspective, 210

relativism, 39–40

research: of author, 228; bottom-up approach

to, 108, 125; cross-cultural comparative,

54, 102–3; on deaf community practices

and development contexts, 240–41;

as empowering, 173; epistemological

stance of, 20; ethnographic, 1; Gallaudet

University and, 187–88; as tool for critical

reflection on development, 237; valuing

deaf indigenous knowledge in, 120–24.

See also community-based research;

doctoral dissertation

Riger, S., 199, 210

Robeyns, I., 31–32

role models, 33

Roose, R., 31

roots metaphor, 136

Rosaldo, Renato, 198

Rushdie, Salman, 96

Sandel, Michael J., 22, 31

Sannino, A., 232, 233

Scheffer, P., 139–40, 159

Schmaling, C., 48

science: alternatives to practice of, 38–42;

emancipatory value of, 42–43; indigenous

knowledge and, 36–38

scientism, 177

self-authoring, 87, 99, 100

self-care, 203

self-reflective stance, 175, 177–80

Seligman, M., 201–2, 203

semiotic mediation, 93

Sen, Amartya, 21, 52–53, 54, 124, 144,

171–72, 173, 209

Sennet, Richard, 193

sidetracking in development work, 121

signed storytelling: cultural practices of, 1;

roots of, 23