Disability and Bureaucratic Forms of Life

Abrams, Thomas

doi:10.5324/njsts.v3i1.2153

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“…Currently, the legal provision of accommodations requires verification of one's disability by a certified medical practitioner. The bureaucratization (and medicalization) of disability accommodations produces bureaucratic forms of life ‘enframing’ disabled people ‘through bureaucratic activity’ (Abrams 2015: 19). Put otherwise, disabled people are cast as ‘entrants’ in forms—understood here both as questionnaires and as pre-existing structures—that frame disability as an objective category rather than ‘as a materially-situated way of being-in-the-world’ (Abrams 2015: 14).…”

Section: The Problems Of Access In Higher Educationmentioning

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The Problems of Access: A Crip Rejoinder via the Phenomenology of Spatial Belonging

Lajoie¹

2021

J. of the Am. Philos. Assoc.

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This essay denaturalizes the taken-for-granted meaning of ‘access’ and interrogates its role and lived meaning in ableist social worlds, with a focus on spaces of higher education. I suggest that legalistic approaches to access need ‘cripping’ by a disability framework. Currently, these approaches (1) miss the intersubjective sociality of being-in-the-world; (2) they prioritize a narrow conception of access focused on ‘physical’ access and ‘physical’ space (a typology I contest); (3) they approach access as frozen in time, rather than as a relational and temporally dynamic process (4); and, finally, they contribute to bureaucratizing and privatizing disability knowledge. I examine ‘access’ through the lens of belonging by asking how we orient ourselves in spaces shaped by oppressive social norms. I argue that ableist lifeworlds generate serious disorientations for disabled people that are lasting, structurally enforced, and harmful or debilitating.

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Section: The Problems Of Access In Higher Educationmentioning

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The Problems of Access: A Crip Rejoinder via the Phenomenology of Spatial Belonging

Lajoie¹

2021

J. of the Am. Philos. Assoc.

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“…People, who depend extensively on care systems (for example people with 'severe' disability), are particularly affected. Abrams (2015) gets right to the point, when he writes, "filling out bureaucratic forms is an essential part of (Western) disabled existence" (Abrams 2015, 13). As I mentioned by way of these practices, the subject is bureaucratically and administratively reduced to data sets and disability becomes life's benchmark 14 .…”

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Inclusion as Critique. Deconstructionist Approaches Exemplified through ‘Care’ of People with Cognitive Disabilities in Germany

Trescher¹

2017

IJSSS

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The article builds on a reformulation of disability that construes disability as 'discoursive disability' (Trescher 2017d) and develops a conception of inclusion, which may be thought of as a deconstruction of barriers to participate in discourses and that aims at enabling access to discourses. I develop this perspective against the background of stationary housing in disability care. In this context, I refer to results of my study ‚Living space as pedagogic challenge. Institutional arrangement of residential home for people with disabilities' (Trescher 2017c), which documents that external and internal, (in)formally assigned practices manifest as 'disabling' and ultimately lead to a bureaucratic overdetermination of subjects. Inclusion in this regard means to deconstruct disabling practices, such as bureaucratic overdetermination, and thus constitutes a process, which runs counter to disability. Inclusion is critical, because it deconstructs barriers to participate in discourses and therefore ultimately transforms society.

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Wie Bürokratie ‚behindert‘ macht

Trescher

2018

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Disability and Bureaucratic Forms of Life

Abstract: This paper employs a hybrid actor-network theory/phenomenological approach to

Cited by 4 publications

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The Problems of Access: A Crip Rejoinder via the Phenomenology of Spatial Belonging

The Problems of Access: A Crip Rejoinder via the Phenomenology of Spatial Belonging

Inclusion as Critique. Deconstructionist Approaches Exemplified through ‘Care’ of People with Cognitive Disabilities in Germany

Wie Bürokratie ‚behindert‘ macht

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