Engaging with materialism and material reality: critical disability studies and economic recession |
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Authors: | Susan Flynn |
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Affiliation: | School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland |
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Abstract: | Critical disability studies has been accused of preoccupation with cultural, lingual and discursive matters, and in doing so failing to adequately engage with the often-harsh material reality of disability. This has contributed to a circumstance in which disability studies has produced a lack of material focused directly upon economic processes. Concurrently, disabled people have encountered a momentous economic recession that has threatened their basic economic and human rights. This article seeks to address what is evidently a gap in the burgeoning critical disability and disability studies literature. That is, a gap largely uninhabited by attempts to apply a critical disability studies perspective to macro-economic processes. The article focuses predominantly on two facets of critical disability studies as identified by Goodley: the self and other, and intersectionality. The article concludes that critical disability studies has much to offer through the production of new understandings of economic processes. |
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Keywords: | Critical disability studies economic recession materialism neo-liberalism |
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