Nancy Viva Davis Halifax

Media & Culture

DepartmentHealth Policy & Management (York)

Areas of Expertisedisability, education healthcare, social exclusion, structural violence, homelessness, public and community spaces, and arts-based research.

http://health.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=502554

i was originally trained as a conceptual artist at NSCAD and this training continues to influence my feminist and crip interest in how we/i/you articulate or make manifest, forms for thoughts. my writing, research, and teaching are oriented toward body/s, illness, disability, and difference, and my ethnographic commitment lies in chasing and waiting for that which lays under/beyond language. i imagine and am curious about life that is not lived as whole, separate and invulnerable but rather as it is lived through tacit presencing that is off-centred, multiple, sensuous. i am an artist and use the arts for sustaining and creating conversations around social change, social auto/biographies, and for engaging communities in social development.

Recent publications:

davis halifax, nancy viva, Fancy, D., Rinaldi, J., Rossiter, K., & Tigchelaar, A. (2018). Recounting Huronia Faithfully: Attenuating Our Methodology to the “Fabulation” of Truths-Telling. Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, 18(3), 216–227.

Davis halifax, N. viva. (2019). Do You Know Why You’re Here? Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 8(4), 4–5.

Halifax, N. V. davis. (2017). Apology, under erasure. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 6(3), 211.

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax. (2018). A charm. Room of One’s Own, 41(4), 105.

Nancy Viva Davis Halifax. (2018). Uncalculable. Room of One’s Own, 41(4), 20.