RT Article
T1 Working “With” Not “On” Disabled People: The Role of Hate Crime Research within the Community
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 39
IS 17/18
SP 3932
OP 3953
A1 Burch, Leah
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1898382662
AB For many disabled people, violence can become an unwanted, yet ordinary part of everyday life. Often, these crimes are attributed to understandings of disabled people as vulnerable and largely, passive victims. Attending to the aims of this special issue, this paper aims to dismantle these stereotypes and attend to the unique ways that disabled people can resist and respond to hate crime through creative and collaborative research practices. Building upon this, I argue that there is a pressing need for hate studies researchers to work “with” and not “on” those who have experienced targeted violence. Working in this way builds upon long-standing efforts of disabled activists and disabilities studies researchers to challenge reductive research practices by working in more collective and inclusive ways. To demonstrate this, I reflect upon a project working in partnership with disabled people to create a disability hate crime toolkit. The toolkit, now published, shares accessible and informative resources that can be used to raise awareness about disability hate crime. While the focus of this paper is disability, I consider methods of collaboration, co-production and participation that can be drawn upon by researchers to respond to hate crime and interpersonal violence more broadly.
K1 Qualitative Research
K1 methods of engagement
K1 positionality
K1 Co-production
K1 Collaboration
K1 disability hate crime
DO 10.1177/08862605241260005