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Empire, Sound, and Disability: Deaf Culture and Education in the Ottoman Empire

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My research takes its cue from Sterne’s point and aims to contribute to Ottoman auditory history through focusing on the cultural history of deafness, also engaging with the history of medicine, history of education, science and technology studies, and disability studies. While the classical Ottoman state apparatus considered deaf servants (called Mutes), as having a special “ability” to serve the state, nineteenth century educational developments redefined the deaf as having a disability that needed to be addressed with special education. In that respect, while the employment of deaf/mute cadres at the Ottoman court recognized them as having a particular potential to play a certain duty, modern scientific discourses, with their medical, pathological, and pedagogical problematizations, disempowered the deaf as lacking subjects (non-agents) and their “integration” into society was only possible through (speech) therapy. Therefore, deaf/muteness was no longer a “sought-for skill” for a special kind of civil servant, but it was an impediment to be a part of the polity.

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halshs-04389335, version 1 (11-01-2024)

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Nazan Maksudyan. Empire, Sound, and Disability: Deaf Culture and Education in the Ottoman Empire. 2023. ⟨halshs-04389335⟩

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