Becoming dishuman: thinking about the human through dis/ability

Goodley, Dan; Runswick‐Cole, Katherine

doi:10.1080/01596306.2014.930021

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“…Although for some groups this illegitimate status may have been rectified over time (Winter 2003), persons with intellectual disabilities are still categorically deemed unqualified to be respected legal actors and rights holders because they are considered to lack autonomy or the ability for independent thought (Goodley and Katherine 2016). This is largely because, as Silvers (2005) acknowledges, these concepts are built on normative ideals and ideologies of normalcy that foster an apparition of a 'species typicality' upon which an eligibility standard is determined.…”

Section: Equality and Intellectual Disability-an Unhappy Liaisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering Sheltered Workshops in Light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)

May‐Simera

2018

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Sheltered work and related practices remain a prevalent service for people with intellectual disabilities. However, as a result of being placed in these, participants overwhelmingly remain segregated and excluded from their wider communities. This paper explores whether, with the advent of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, we can at least begin to assess the equality implications of such placements and argue that the experience of segregation itself represents numerous rights violations and discrimination. Having considered traditional equality mechanisms and their bearing on people with intellectual disabilities, this discussion explores how far the Convention's re-envisioning of the basic principles of equality can perhaps provide a more promising outlook and ideological stance. Indeed, during the Convention's inception, the negotiations circled around the conflicting opinions as to the purpose, usefulness, and future of sheltered work, revealing the existing tensions between protection and autonomy, shrouding all disability policy discussions. As a result, the question of sheltered work is not explicitly addressed in the treaty and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have been unable to definitively declare that the practice of sheltered work constitutes an act of discrimination. However, the Committee does as times demand that sheltered workshops be phased out where it is obvious that the practice of sheltered work is directly linked to the exploitation of workers. Moreover, certain provisions in the Convention might help in determining wrongful discrimination in some, if limited, instances.

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Section: Equality and Intellectual Disability-an Unhappy Liaisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering Sheltered Workshops in Light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)

May‐Simera

2018

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“…This is only possible if those who are categorised as different are regarded as less than human-or at the very least as existing outside humanity as we understand it (Goodley & Runswick Cole 2014). These everyday encounters can be understood as a manifestation of ableism-of the common-sense assumption that an ablebodied/able-minded identity is what anybody would want (McRuer 2006).…”

Section: The Hegemony Of Normativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Shildrick’s monster: exploring a new approach to difference/disability through collective biography

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Putte

Claes

et al. 2016

Disability & Society

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1 Throughout this paper we have adopted the linguistic device of joining difference with disability in this way. We cannot abandon the category 'disability' as it is still necessary for the political work that needs to be done to establish the rights of people with disabilities, we nevertheless would like to continually combine that necessity of the category, with all its essentialising dangers, with 'difference' and so flag the poststructuralist move toward emergent multiplicity that moves beyond binary thinking. 2 AbstractWorking with memories generated in a collective biography workshop on difference/disability and drawing in particular on Shildrick's (2002) analysis of monstrosity, this paper analyses the ambivalent processes through which difference is othered and abjected. It argues that through the process of abjection we disown for ourselves whatever qualities are being categorised as monstrous, with negative effects not just on the other, but also on the self. We look at the ambivalence of 'reclaiming the monster'. The paper opens up an alternative of expanding the possibilities of being by focusing not on difference as categorical otherness, but rather difference as movement, as differenciation, or becoming.

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“…Moreover, he is white, European, handsome and able-bodied … an ideal of bodily perfection' (13), who 'speak[s] a standard language, [and is] heterosexually inscribed in a reproductive unit and a full citizen of a recognised polity' (65), as well as 'a rational animal endowed with language' (141). According to Goodley and Runswick-Cole (2014), this vision of the human has at its core Eurocentric and imperialist tendencies, 'meaning that many of those outside of Europe (including in the colonies) become known as less than human or inhuman' (2). This framing of the human ensures that some of us are more human than others, and that many are excluded from the category.…”

Section: Post-humanistic Becoming Pedagogiesmentioning

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Pedagogical possibilities for unruly bodies

Rice

Chandler

Liddiard

et al. 2016

Gender and Education

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Project Re•Vision uses disability arts to disrupt stereotypical understandings of disability and difference that create barriers to healthcare. In this paper, we examine how digital stories produced through Re•Vision disrupt biopedagogies by working as bodybecoming pedagogies to create non-didactic possibilities for living in/with difference. We engage in meaning making about eight stories made by women and trans people living with disabilities and differences, with our interpretations guided by the following considerations: what these stories 'teach' about new ways of living with disability; how these stories resist neoliberalism through their production of new possibilities for living; how digital stories wrestle with representing disability in a culture in which disabled bodies are on display or hidden away; how vulnerability and receptivity become 'conditions of possibility' for the embodiments represented in digital stories; and how curatorial practice allows disability-identified artists to explore possibilities of 'looking back' at ableist gazes. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Becoming dishuman: thinking about the human through dis/ability

Cited by 123 publications

References 24 publications

Reconsidering Sheltered Workshops in Light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)

Reconsidering Sheltered Workshops in Light of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)

Shildrick’s monster: exploring a new approach to difference/disability through collective biography

Pedagogical possibilities for unruly bodies

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