Academics: Graduate Research
Danielle is currently working on her Ph.D. In Phys.Ed & Rec at the University of Alberta. She works with Dr.Markula in the Body, Movement and Culture Research Group.
Her research interests include: disability sport, disability movements, policing & crossing the able/disabled divide, Queer/Crip theory, art & practice, and Paralympic power relations.
Like her filmmaking, community outreach and public speaking, Danielle's research is explicitly geared towards community engagement and social change. Her doctoral project write up is available on the Trudeau Foundation Website.
Danielle's master's thesis (supervised by Dr. Goodwin), was entitled "Governing Bodies: A Foucauldian Critique of Paralympic Power Relations." And is available online through the University of Alberta.
Danielle's research is funded by the Canada Vanier Graduate Scholarship, and the Trudeau Foundation.
CV Highlights
Recent & Upcoming Publications
Peers, D., M. Brittain & R. McRuer (forthcoming). Crip Excess, Art and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer. The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.
Peers, D (forthcoming) Interrogating Disability: The (de)composition of a recovering Paralympian. Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise.
Peers, D. (forthcoming). Patients, athletes, freaks: Paralympism and the reproduction of disability. Journal of Sport and Social Issues.
Goodwin, D. & D. Peers (2011). Disability, sport and inclusion. In S. Dagkas & K. Armour (Eds.), Inclusion and exclusion through youth sport (pp. 186-202). Routledge.
Spencer-Cavaliere, N. & D. Peers (2011). “What’s the difference?” Wheelchair basketball, reverse integration and the question(ing) of disability. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 28. 291-309.
Peers, D. & L. Eales (2011). “Stand Up” for exclusion?: Queer pride, ableism and inequality. FedCan Equity Blog, July 7, 2011.(link)
Peers, D. (2009). (Dis)empowering Paralympic histories: Absent athletes and disabling discourses. Disability & Society, 24(5), 653-665.
Peers, D. (2009). Review of Steve Bailey’s Athlete First: A History of the Paralympic Movement. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 26, 187-188.Creative Publications & Alternative Media
Peers, D., Brittain, M., & Mootoo, S. (Producers & Directors). (2009). And the rest is drag [Motion picture]. Canada: KingCrip Productions. (Available from Vtape, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8) (Showings include: the Edmonton Exposure Festival, the Seattle Transgender Film Festival and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival)
Peers, D., Brittain, M., Cowan, T.L., & Overend, A. (Producers & Directors). (2009). Bill 44: Smaller classes, smaller minds [Motion picture]. Canada: KingCrip Productions. (link).
Peers, D. & Brittain, M. (Producers & Directors). (2008). G.I.M.P. boot camp [Motion picture]. Canada: KingCrip Productions. (Available from Vtape, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8). (Showings include: Picture This International Disability Film Festival; Vancouver Queer Film Festival; Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival; New York’s DisTHIS! Film Series; and Frameline, San Fransisco’s LGBT Film Festival).
Recent Presentations at Scholarly Conferences
Peers, D. (2011) Seeking out failure in Graduate School and beyond. Keynote lecture at Re-Con Graduate Student Conference, Canmore, AB.
Peers, D., M. Brittain, & L. Erickson (2010). Disobedient Bodies: Video Artistry and Activism (Roundtable). Health, Embodiment & Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON.
Peers, D.(2009). Paralympians, patients and freaks: Re-conceptualizing Paralympic progress narratives. Presentation at North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference, University of Ottawa in Ottawa, ON.
Peers, D. (2008). Pity and pedestals: Expert discourses about athletes with disabilities. To Remember is to Resist: 40 Years of Sport and Social Change International Conference, University of Toronto in Toronto, ON.
Peers, D. (2008). Producing the Paralympian: A genealogy in progress. York Critical Disability Studies Graduate Student Conference, York University in Toronto, ON.Volunteer Community Involvement
- National Ambassador - Muscular Dystrophy Canada
- Co-founder & Co-chair - KingCrip Productions
- Director - Alberta Northern Lights Wheelchair Basketball
- Program Coach - Wheelchair Basketball Canada
- Head Coach - Inferno Wheelchair Basketball
- Co-founder - Sustainable, Political, Accessible Communities of Edmonton
- Women's Commissioner - Wheelchair Baksetball Canada (2005-2007)
- Spokesperson - Canada Francophone Games (2008)
- Co-founder & Founding Chair - Inferno Wheelchair Basketball (2002-2005)
- Committee Member & Champion - CAAWS, homophobia in sport task force
