The Reworking of Spatial Attribution: People with Intellectual Disabilites and the Micropolitics of Dissensus

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes This research project was conducted by Ann Fudge Schormans toward completion of her PhD in Social Work. Adrienne Chambon was Ann's thesis supervisor. For more details about the project's structure, please see Fudge Schormans (2011 Fudge Schormans , A. ( 2011 ). The Right or Responsibility of Inspection: Photography, Social Work, and People with Intellectual Disabilities. PhD diss., University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. [Google Scholar]) and Fudge Schormans and Chambon (in press Fudge Schormans , A. and Chambon , A. ( in press ). “Please Don't Let Me Be Like This!”: Un-wounding Photographic Representations by People with Intellectual Disabilities . In S. Brophy & J. Hladki (Eds.), Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography . Toronto : University of Toronto Press . [Google Scholar]). In conversations with the photographer, the man's dress and positioning on the mattress are explained as an effort to keep him cool and comfortable on a hot day. This information is not provided to the viewer of the image through the caption or the accompanying text, nor was it available prior to the group members’ work with the images. My sharing of this information with them after the work was completed did not change their interpretation of the image. The question of the group's concern with notions of “normality” will be taken up in another publication. The responses of audiences to exhibits of these two sets of images will be taken up in another publication.