Unravelling Mr President’s nomad lands: travelling to interdisciplinary frontiers of knowledge in disability studies |
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Authors: | Griet Roets |
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Institution: | Department of Social Welfare Studies, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences , Ghent University , Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent , Belgium |
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Abstract: | In this article the aim is to challenge essentialist ontological assumptions surrounding the impairment category of ‘learning difficulties’ as it was previously conceptualized in social theory and practice. I ground my knowledge production in self‐advocates connected to the self‐advocacy movement in Flanders (Belgium) and in critical feminist disability studies. Drawing upon the post‐structuralist feminist Rosi Braidotti, who introduced nomadology as a new figuration of layered, embedded and embodied subjectivity, I bring the illustrative nomadic subjectivity of the president of the self‐advocacy network to the public eye. In order to allow disability scholars and activists re‐inscribe new scenarios in our contemporary discourse and shared culture, I appeal for an interpretation of the impaired body and mind as a socio‐political field. |
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Keywords: | critical disability studies self‐advocacy post‐structuralist feminism nomadology Braidotti |
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