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SIGNS@HWU is a group of researchers who focus on sign language studies and Deaf Studies. We are situated in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University. SIGNS@HWU was established as a cluster of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland, to profile the world-leading interdisciplinary research being conducted at Heriot-Watt University.
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Assistive technologies for deaf people in Jordan
  • Relevance: Completed
  • sign language technologies
    cochlear implants
    religion
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Based on 17 months of multi-sited ethnography in Amman from 2021 to 2023, this dissertation project examines deaf Jordanians’ engagements with new assistive technologies that have emerged there in the last two decades, including cochlear implants, provided through a state-affiliated initiative, and a sign language-centered mobile application, produced by a Jordanian-Syrian educational technology start-up. Focusing on three central nodes of biomedical imaginaries, language ideologies, and religious commitments, I explore the cultural politics that undergird the use and production of these different assistive technologies for deaf people in Jordan. This project thinks with the Jordanian deaf community to explore the future of disability in the contemporary era, when biomedical technological advancements that posit a world without disability push up against liberal claims to disability as a valuable form of diversity.

SIGNS@HWU people on this project:

Timothy Loh
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