Disability studies after the ontological turn: a return to the material world and material bodies without a return to essentialism

Feely, Michael

doi:10.1080/09687599.2016.1208603

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“…Other scholars have disentangled disability as coming into existence by barriers and attitudes created by the society. As Feely (2016) outlines, work in this tradition tends to leave the body unquestioned (more specifically, the body is regarded as impaired), while the focus is on disability as a social construction. Another way of exploring the relations between the body and disability is found among scholars inspired by poststructuralism.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Modes of ordering disability: students living with visual disabilities in the Sultanate of Oman

Näslund

Said

2017

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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This article examines how a group of students with visual disabilities speak about becoming disabled and living with disability in relation to: material entities, practices, and their own expectations regarding the future in the Sultanate of Oman. It draws upon individual interviews among six adults with visual disabilities. The article outlines, from a material semiotics approach, how various forms of modes of ordering enact disability. An interdisciplinary approach, informed by disability studies and science and technology studies, is implemented to interpret: How do students with visual disabilities express the relationships between material entities (such as bodies and technologies) and practices? In what ways are these relationships enacting different modes of ordering disability? What kind of modes of ordering disability are the participants experiencing in their lives? How have they responded to the modes of ordering that they have encountered? ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Another way of exploring the relations between the body and disability is found among scholars inspired by poststructuralism. They regard the body and disability as social constructions while discourses and language are sources of inspirations for their understanding (Feely 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modes of ordering disability: students living with visual disabilities in the Sultanate of Oman

Näslund

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2017

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…Critical realists such as Shakespeare (2014) and Vehmas and Watson (2014) lambast poststructuralist leanings within critical disability studies for ignoring the stark realities of impairment. However, for Feely (2016), the self-defined 'critical realism' of these scholars actually lacks criticality because it imports simplistic essentialist ideas of impairment and the body. These interventions, he suggests, lack a more nuanced and dynamic engagement with the materiality of life.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These interventions, he suggests, lack a more nuanced and dynamic engagement with the materiality of life. For Feely (2016) such an engagement is offered through bringing in the work of Deleuze and Guattari (for example, Deleuze and Guattari 1987) and to this we would add Deleuzian scholars, in particular the work of Braidotti (for example, Braidotti 2003Braidotti , 2013. In Feely's (2016) beautifully accessible piece he notes that for Deleuze reality is made up of discursive statements and material entities.…”

Section: Disability and Resistant Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For Feely (2016) such an engagement is offered through bringing in the work of Deleuze and Guattari (for example, Deleuze and Guattari 1987) and to this we would add Deleuzian scholars, in particular the work of Braidotti (for example, Braidotti 2003Braidotti , 2013. In Feely's (2016) beautifully accessible piece he notes that for Deleuze reality is made up of discursive statements and material entities. Both are active, mutually affecting and have effects in the world (Feely 2016, 869 (Feely 2016, 870) A body's capacities -the things it can and cannot do -are always contextual and relational (think technology, material resources, communities of support).…”

Section: Disability and Resistant Assemblagesmentioning

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Feeling disability: theories of affect and critical disability studies

Goodley

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.

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Resistance from the margin: An autoethnographic account of academic ableism

Kwon

2023

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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Ableism—which refers to a socially‐sanctioned preference for normative bodies and minds, and which presumes one's abilities—is prevalent in any social system, including academia. However, despite an evolving disciplinary identity that seeks to improve work systems by addressing critical social issues, human resource development (HRD) as a field has done little to understand or advocate for the experiences of academics with disabilities. To challenge directly prevailing ableist assumptions and practices in academia, the present autoethnographic study was undertaken to reflect upon and detail my own experience of becoming an academic with a disability, specifically in the field of HRD. The story presented in this article presents evidence of unique challenges and opportunities facing an academic with a disability and seeks to stimulate meaningful dialogue around how to create a welcoming and inclusive academic culture for all. This article also advances autoethnography as a viable research methodology that allows for the authentic voices of members from marginalized communities and mobilizes change.

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Disability studies after the ontological turn: a return to the material world and material bodies without a return to essentialism

Cited by 113 publications

References 26 publications

Modes of ordering disability: students living with visual disabilities in the Sultanate of Oman

Modes of ordering disability: students living with visual disabilities in the Sultanate of Oman

Feeling disability: theories of affect and critical disability studies

Resistance from the margin: An autoethnographic account of academic ableism

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