Geodisability knowledge production and international norms: A Sri Lankan case study

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Campbell, Fiona Kumari. 2011. "Geodisability knowledge production and international norms: A Sri Lankan case study." Third World Quarterly. 32 (8), pp. 1455-1474. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2011.604518
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Geodisability knowledge production and international norms: A Sri Lankan case study

ERA Journal ID7764
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AuthorCampbell, Fiona Kumari
Journal TitleThird World Quarterly
Journal Citation32 (8), pp. 1455-1474
Number of Pages20
Year2011
Place of PublicationUnited Kingdom
ISSN0143-6597
1360-2241
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2011.604518
Web Address (URL)http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2011.604518
Abstract

Disability is a representational system and its denotation is a resultof how communities make sense of and mark corporeal differences. In this paper I argue that the UN norm standard setting, a form of geodisability knowledge, determines the kinds of bodies known as disabled and acts as a technology of disability governmentality. The institutional strategic gaze, sited in the UN, examines, normalises and conditions nation-states. Without consensual international disability norms it would not be possible to disclose and makevisible the dynamics of disability at a country level and for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to map disability globally. An alternate reading of international norms is to figure the functioning of geodisability knowledge tonaturalise it through codifying hegemonic ways of seeing, citing and situating disability and thus colonise different cultural approaches to disability. A discussion of geodisability knowledge production is pursued within the context of a Sri Lankan case study.

Keywordsdisability studies; disability law; ableism, Sri Lanka
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020489999. Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified
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