Biography
Presenting Teaching and Researching Disability: A Workshop for Early Career Scholars of Anthropology and/of Disability
Kim Fernandes is a joint doctoral student in education and Anthropology. Their work, based largely in Delhi, is focused on the production of government statistics about people with disabilities in India through processes such as the unique disability ID card and large-scale enumeration efforts such as the census. They are also interested in the manner in which discourses around the accuracy of numbers intersect with their use in policy-making and implementation.