Dis/ability Studies

Liddiard

Runswick‐Cole

2017

Disability & Society

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This paper explores connections between affect studies and critical disability studies. Our interest in affect is sparked by the beginnings of a new research project that seeks to illuminate the lives, hopes and desires of young people with 'life-limiting' or 'life-threatening' impairments. Cultural responses to these young people are shaped by dominant discourses associated with lives lived well and long. Before commencing our empirical work with young people we use this paper to think through how we might conceptualise affect and disability. We present three themes; ontological invalidation in neoliberal-able times; affect aliens and crip killjoys; disability and resistant assemblages.

Section: Ontological Invalidation In Neoliberal-able Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ontological Invalidation In Neoliberal-able Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling disability: theories of affect and critical disability studies

Liddiard

Runswick‐Cole

2017

Disability & Society

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“…As one of us has recently argued, Goodley (2014), this shared language has taken on particular relevance in a time of global neoliberalism. The neoliberal agenda is dependent on the construction of 'us' and 'them' (Ramlow ????…”

Section: Queer(y)ing Big Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the dominance of global neoliberalism, we might argue, the outlook for queer and crip bodies looks bleak; it appears that a life of exhaustion and isolation is inescapable. And yet resistance and subversion are readily found in queer and crip spaces (Goodley, 2014). For Sedgwick (1990: 3) sexuality occupies a distinctively privileged relation to the constructs of radicalised identities.…”

Section: Queer(y)ing Big Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We see the alliance of crip and queer politics as sharing a political agenda to question the taken-for-granted virtue of the production of self-governing, discrete, enterprising individuals. When a person needs the support of others to eat, sleep, bathe, be mobile, to communicate, to be part of the community and to engage in relationships, this troubles assumed models of citizenship (Goodley, 2014). Our task, according to Meleo-Erwin …”

Section: Queer(y)ing Big Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Big Society? Disabled people with the label of learning disabilities and the queer(y)ing of civil society

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Runswick‐Cole

2014

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Disability and Impairment

Liddiard

The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory

2017

This entry introduces the field of critical disability studies. The entry begins by providing a brief overview of the emergence of this field, acknowledging the ways in which disability and impairment differ as conceptual categories. It considers, first, the need to move between public and private understandings of these categories through a discussion of embodiment and the psychoemotional. Second, it examines an emergent approach – dis/ability studies – which interrogates the dual processes of disableism and ableism. Third, it focuses on a distinct aspect of life – sex and sexuality – and explores this in reference to dis/ability. The entry concludes with some ideas about generative social theory.