Fiona...What are you talking about?
Henry Cullihall.
Fiona A Campbell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am interested in this theme and am pursuing it as part of my Phd. A
> couple of rambling thoughts for the present -
>
> * unlike other identity groups/or sites of subordination - 'disability' is
> at the end of the day imputed with a negative ontology - to be eradicated,
> cured, modified etc. Many people with 'disabilities' (including activists)
> experience consciously or otherwise, a kind of internalised ableism - a deep
> seated misoanomalia. It si critical with we are to move forward to recast
> 'disability' from the realm of the vertiginous dfread of the tragic. I ask
> myself what 'good' can be siad abpout 'disablised' bodies, with degenerating
> into the depths of (false) valoration? Is it possible to carnally fantasise
> about 'disability'? What do we we really mean by the concept of 'pride'.
>
> * In terms of activist politics (broadly defined), how do we ensure that
> 'disability' discourses remain oppositional and transgressive? We need to
> be suscipious, if not uncomfortable, with adopting a corporeal project which
> figures 'disability' in terms of what it is not, a negative struggle (c.f.
> Linda Alcoff 1988). We need to ask as Paul Abberley (1998: 80)put it - 'to
> what end disability'?
>
> Fiona Campbell
> Queensland University of technology
> home mail: [log in to unmask]
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