Living with Difference: Perspectives of Rural-Dwelling Young Disabled Adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada has 6.2 million disabled people, 18.4 percent of whom live in rural and remote areas (Randal & Thurston, 2022). Yet there is a lack of lived experience of rural disability research in Canada. Rurality is important because rural social and organizational structures influence notions of identity (Cairns, 2015), belonging (Mirfin, 2017), and equitable access to resources (Reimer, 2005). Therefore, intersectional disability scholarships have recently begun to focus study in this area (Soldatic & Johnson, 2017). In this study, I apply Yuval-Davis’ (2006, 2015) situated intersectional approach. Her approach is not prescriptive regarding which social divisions (i.e., race, class, and gender) to include in intersectional scholarship (Yuval-Davis, 2006, 2015). In this thesis, I center rurality and disability. I explore how intertwined social divisions (e.g., disability) emerge in rural contexts shaping disabled people’s social position(s), their negotiations of rural inequity and developing subjectivities. Fifteen diverse young disabled participants from the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada, shared their stories of growing up rurally with disability. The socio-cultural context is critical to this study. I interviewed six key stakeholders to understand how Niagara's current interconnected social, political, and economic systems shape local social inequity. Additionally, I completed an integrated analysis of key texts, including municipal, regional, and provincial policies and guidelines, to understand the broader political and economic systems shaping local rural inequity. In my analysis, I suggest ideas of disability/difference(s) influence and are influenced by rural social structures (re)producing views of disability and rural inequity. In particular, rural family status—conceived as a complex intermingling of relational, reputational, and economic dimensions—is emergent in rural Niagara. This view of rural family status is critical to understanding the participants’ negotiations of inequity and developing positive views of disability/difference. Because disabled participants are embedded in local power relations, their positionality and negotiations of disability are multiple and fluid across different time points and rural environments in Niagara. This thesis challenges simplistic and static views of disability and rurality. Emphasizing the heterogeneity of rurality and rural disabled people is fundamental in determining how to support diverse disabled people to live and flourish in rural Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".