Work of Inclusion

Lorraine V. Cuddeback-Gedeon is Assistant Professor of Theology at Mount St Mary's University, USA.

• IntroductionChapter 1We Speak for ThemChapter 2We Speak for OurselvesChapter 3Speaking To and For One AnotherChapter 4Difficult ConversationsConclusion: Voices UnitedBibliographyIndex

Lorraine Cuddeback-Gedeon's The Work of Inclusion upends the approach to theology by a lone researcher in the library stacks and at the computer to be with the subjects of her research, using the tools of ethnography, and engaging directly with the subjects of her work: People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability. This research navigates the inclination to impose meaning on encounters between the ethnographer and her subjects. Cuddeback-Gedeon successfully risks eliciting non-discursive communication with her subjects by turning deftly toward discovering an embodied communication, through a conscious of shared humanity, and fashioned by solidaristic reflexivity.