Arseli Dokumaci
Bio
Arseli Dokumaci (she/her) is the director of the AIM Lab, and Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Media Technologies. Arseli is an interdisciplinary scholar and creative practitioner. Her scholarly and creative work lies at the crossovers of disability studies, performance studies, media studies and medical anthropology. In her research, and research-creation videos, Arseli explores how disabled people go about their everyday lives, and come up with micro, improvisational solutions that she theorizes as activist affordances. Arseli is particularly interested in exploring how disability can be a critical a method to rethink and practice media in new ways. Her research appeared in Current Anthropology, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, Performance Research, and in other journals and edited collections. Arseli is currently launching a four-year SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary team project, entitled "Mobilizing disability survival skills for the urgencies of the Anthropocene" (PI. Dr. Dokumaci).