Bodies in Motion: Critical issues between disability studies and multicultural studies

Jakubowicz, Andrew; Meekosha, Helen

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“…As will be demonstrated later, disability has been used as a proxy for other power relations, such as those between the colonizers and the colonized, between nation states and would-be immigrants (Jakubowicz & Meekosha 2002, Mitchell & Snyder 2003. The use of language pertaining to fitness and ability has been used to categorize the population into distinct groupings, thereby acting as a form of social control and population control.…”

Section: Disability As An Emerging Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

What the Hell are You? An Intercategorical Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Disability in the Australian Body Politic

Meekosha

2006

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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Critical disability studies has examined the intersections between gender and disability. Meanwhile, feminist analyses of the intersection between race, class and gender identities have developed important insights, but failed to include dimensions of disability. A wealth of literature deals with issues of health and illness from a cross-cultural perspective, but disability has been a much-neglected area. This paper will examine why gender, race, class and disability have developed as mutually exclusive areas of research and inquiry. It will argue that an intercategorical examination between racialized groups, disability groups and gendered groups in a period of colonialism and neo-colonialism in the Australian context can bring to the fore the ways dominant cultures produce and reproduce themselves. Issues of eugenics, population control, the constitution of the normal subject and exclusion of different bodies provide evidence of these processes.

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Section: Disability As An Emerging Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

What the Hell are You? An Intercategorical Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Disability in the Australian Body Politic

Meekosha

2006

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…Yet most studies of disability ignore cultural diversity, while much cultural theory excludes consideration of bodily capacity (Jakubowicz and Meekosha 2002;Meekosha 2006;Soldatic and Fiske 2009). Where Indigenous people with disabilities are acknowledged, the models are often simplistically cumulative, with Aboriginality and disability being added together to constitute a 'double disadvantage' (Gething 1994, 14).…”

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Decolonizing Indigenous disability in Australia

Hollinsworth

2013

Disability & Society

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“…The tendency to overshadow, ignore or deny the role of disability negates the ways in which ideas of whiteness, fitness and productiveness, grounded in the rationality of scientific ableism, imbued the imaginary of the white-settler colonial nation-state (Jakubowicz & Meekosha, 2002;Soldatic & Biyanwila, 2006;Soldatic, Meekosha, & Somers, 2012). This system of logic resulted in a plethora of practices that separated the indigenous and the disabled from the settler.…”

Section: Disability and Indigeneity In The White Able-bodied Settlermentioning

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Postcolonialreproductions: disability, indigeneity and the formation of the white masculine settler state of Australia

Soldatić

2015

Social Identities

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There has been a growing debate within the broad field of postcolonial scholarship which seeks to challenge both its territorial boundaries with the advent of globalization and its limitations when applied to the realm of white-settler societies. The debate has been extremely fruitful in situating emerging scholarship that seeks to extend postcoloniality, its theoretical framing, and the internal processes of social categorization for peoples caught within the nation-state's territorial sphere. Unfortunately, disability and indigeneity remain largely absent from these fresh debates; or when included, are explored as singular fields of analytical inquiry with little intersectional dialogue. With this paper, I aim to extend these nascent debates by critically engaging with both disability and indigeneity as two interlocking sites of (post)colonial nationstate power. To explicate this argument, my analysis focuses on a key historical moment in the Australian experience -the formation of the colonial white-settler society of Australia in its early years (1901-1920s), comparing and contrasting the systems of administrative management of disability and indigeneity. In doing so, the paper reveals the deep materialities of white, able-bodied, masculine, (post)colonial settler rule that bring together disability and indigeneity via gender reproductive controls. The conclusion reflects on the transformative effects of managing transgressive bodies and minds under the white able-bodied settler state and the potential this opens to negotiate practices of solidarity.

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Bodies in Motion: Critical issues between disability studies and multicultural studies

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

What the Hell are You? An Intercategorical Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Disability in the Australian Body Politic

What the Hell are You? An Intercategorical Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Disability in the Australian Body Politic

Decolonizing Indigenous disability in Australia

Postcolonialreproductions: disability, indigeneity and the formation of the white masculine settler state of Australia

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