Foucault and the Government of Disability

Tremain, Shelley

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“…I believe that disability studies have much to learn from feminist and social studies of science, technology and medicine Á and vice versa Á on these issues. In the last few years, the exchange between these academic fields has increased (Galis 2006;Goggin and Newell 2003;Winance 2007;Struhkamp 2004;Moser 2003;Didrich 2005;Tremain 2005), and the ambition here is to contribute to this traffic and circulation.…”

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A body that matters? The role of embodiment in the recomposition of life after a road traffic accident

Moser

2009

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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Drawing on a study of life after road traffic accidents, this article explores the role of the body and embodiment for disability Á as well as for ability. It introduces the empirically more open and less medicalized terms 'decomposition' and 'recomposition' to get around and avoid being appropriated by the medical discourse, while staying true to the body and its role in the shaping of life. Inspired by feminist and social studies of science, technology and medicine, it approaches bodily realities as emerging in practices and as an ongoing open process of mattering and embodying. The argument is that a road traffic accident is better conceived as the starting point of a series of contingent shifts and dynamic recompositions than as a single radical breakdown in people's lives, subjectivities and biographies. People are decomposed and recomposed, disabled and enabled, in shifting and complex ways, in specific practices and relations.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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A body that matters? The role of embodiment in the recomposition of life after a road traffic accident

Moser

2009

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…Many researchers are familiar with, and have even used, Foucault"s concepts of power and knowledge to explore, often to very good effect, the way in which individuals with learning disabilities and other kinds of special needs are controlled and constrained 5 within schooling contexts (Allan, 1999;Reid & Valle, 2004;Tremain, 2005). Whilst such analyses provide important insights, they offer little hope that individuals can escape such constraints.…”

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Complicating, Not Explicating: Taking up Philosophy in Learning Disability Research

Allan

2011

Learning Disability Quarterly

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This article provides an introduction to some theoretical ideas and practices from the socalled "philosophers of difference" -Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari. They afford an opportunity to think differently about the construction of learning disability and to envision new forms of learning. Two key concepts -Foucault"s transgression and Deleuze and Guattari"s rhizome -are introduced and examples from research on learning disability and other dimensions of disability are given to illustrate their potential.The theoretical practices of deconstruction, developed by Derrida, and Deleuze and Guattari"s rhizomatic analysis are also presented and exemplified. I argue that these these theoretical concepts and practices, if taken up, shift the researcher towards an ethics of research and to greater responsibility. The implications of this are discussed in the final part of the paper.3

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“…1 Normality is a privileged, yet strikingly vacant and difficult to define, category which gains its existence and status from its relationship to the constitutive disavowal of abnormality (Tremain 2005;Campbell 2009;Shildrick 2009). As Shakespeare (1994) puts it, disability functions as a 'dustbin for disavowal' for the category of normality.…”

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Normality and disability: intersections among norms, law, and culture

2017

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Foucault and the Government of Disability

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A body that matters? The role of embodiment in the recomposition of life after a road traffic accident

A body that matters? The role of embodiment in the recomposition of life after a road traffic accident

Complicating, Not Explicating: Taking up Philosophy in Learning Disability Research

Normality and disability: intersections among norms, law, and culture

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