The almanac "Exploring the Deaf Community:1" was shortlisted for the Grushin Prize.

On Sociologist's Day, November 14, the Shaninka Library hosted the awards ceremony for the BA Grushin Book Sociology Prize. Among this year's nominees was the almanac "Exploring the Deaf Community: 1," published following the conference "What Does It Mean to Be Deaf: New Challenges for the Community," edited by Nikita Bolshakov, leading research fellow at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, and Vlad Kolesnikov, curator of the GES-2 Community Center.

The almanac is a collection of articles introducing the reader to the community of deaf and hard-of-hearing people, who have their own subculture, norms, traditions, language, self-identification, unique behavior patterns, and organizations. The almanac's authors also include representatives of the Laboratory:  Elena Iarskaya-Smirnova  , who wrote the conclusion to the publication, titled "Mutual Understanding and Cooperation," and  Maria Malofeeva,  with the article "Socialization and Stigmatization Experiences of Hearing Children of Deaf Parents." 

As jury member  Ilya Shteinberg  noted, the book reveals not only "what it means" to be deaf, but also how this issue "means" differently for deaf and hearing people themselves, for those responsible for social policy, for the media, and for authors of fiction: "It is important that almost all the articles are the result of collaborative work between deaf people, CODA, and hearing researchers. This increases the reliability of the data and conclusions and influences the entire study design: from formulating hypotheses and sample modeling to interpreting and analyzing the primary data."

Elena Iarskaya-Smirnova and Nikita Bolshakov

Press service of the Grushinskaya Prize

More information about the Almanac can be  found at the link  . A sequel to the publication, Exploring the Deaf Community: 2, was presented at the recent conference "RDC: On the Periphery of Attention."