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DEAF-DEAF-DIFFERENT: ambiguities of being deaf in Benin

Researcher:

Carsten Mildner

Research Area:

A

“Being deaf” is more than a physical or medical phenomenon. It is a social role and position that is constantly shifted and renegotiated between the deaf and the hearing individuals and communities. In my research project “learning to be deaf in Benin”, I seek to understand how deaf identity is established within, across and beyond the various religious, ethnic and linguistic groups in Benin.