Corporeality and Critical Disability Studies: Toward an Informed Epistemology of Embodiment
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Flynn, S., Corporeality and Critical Disability Studies: Toward an Informed Epistemology of Embodiment, Disability & Society, 36, 4, 2021, 636-655Abstract:
This paper forms an intervention into debates about the corporeality of impairment and ‘bodies that matter’ in critical disability studies. Toward informing the epistemology of embodiment present in critical disability studies, it proposes new directions for progression within four set parameters. Firstly, insights from disability might be better re-purposed toward understanding the nature of all human embodiment. Secondly, one must sufficiently address, but not necessarily polarise, materiality and abstraction. Thirdly, within its parent academy, the epistemological approach might adhere to critical disability studies’ conventions, whilst still avoiding present perils and impasses. Fourthly, it is important not to be so exhaustive and conclusive as to eliminate innovation and creative new trajectories. Overall, the sustaining proposition is, that the productive capacity of disability is immense, toward disrupting and re-configuring ableist understandings of the body in the material world.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687599.2020.1755237http://hdl.handle.net/2262/92681
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Author: Flynn, Susan
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687599.2020.1755237http://hdl.handle.net/2262/92681
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Disability & Society36
4
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Critical disability studies, Disability, Embodiment, Corporeality, Body, AbleismISSN:
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