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Coequality and transnational studies: Understanding Deaf lives
1889 a delegation of Deaf Americans were heading to the International Congress of te Deaf in Paris, France
St. Saviour's Church
deaf people share a common experience with each other since they are part of the visual community in auditory world
Deaf studies has most often expolored Deaf lives within the frameworks of single national communities
Transnational studies of Deaf people may enable us to see beyond the classic nation-state-based "minority struggle for equality"
Transnational interaction among Deaf people does no ignore national boundaries or national indentities
Living in a visual community stretching across national boundaries, wile simultaneously participating in their auditory, national communities, Deaf people live uniquely structured lives.
1893 World's Congress of the Deaf at the Chicago World's Fair brought together over one thousand Deaf people from the USA and Europe
When Deaf people were first studied they were portrayed as a "community hindered by failed educational practices and limited vocations opportunities in its struggle for equality with hearing society
Deaf people live simultaneously in hearing spaces and in Deaf spaces, are part of a Deaf community and active participants in non-Deaf social settings
Deaf people willingly sought to participate on an equal basis in the society around them, but refused to be submerged into it
deaf people do not live their lives in the expectation of some end point where all Deaf people will come together in homeland
they go to preselected geographical locations to establish temporary physical communities of Deaf people
major feature of the new Deaf cultural landscape consist of gatherings at designated public or private spaces situated both in physical, geographical space and at virtual sites that exist only in moment of active creation and consumption
Transnational Deaf localities are continually changing articulation of coequality derived from a multiplicity of sourced within the global Deaf world and from contact zone interactions with non-Deaf societies
tactically mobile are those idea formed in one setting tat are transferable to other settings
tactical mobility thus highlights not only Deaf transnationalism but also commonalities in the experience of being hearing when faced with a Deaf world
Technologies of hearing improvement are a classic example of a transnational phenomenon impacting Deaf people in different countries
Transnational work will no doubt uncover previously overlooked commonalities between Deaf communities situated in different national spaces
Deaf people today still affirm the ability of Deaf peole to live Deaf centered lived while simultaneously exploring
Understandings of Deaf people based on both assimilation and cultural distinction are today being manufactured and sold, often by Deaf people themselves