Geodisability knowledge production and international norms: A Sri Lankan case study
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Article Title | Geodisability knowledge production and international norms: A Sri Lankan case study |
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ERA Journal ID | 7764 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Campbell, Fiona Kumari |
Journal Title | Third World Quarterly |
Journal Citation | 32 (8), pp. 1455-1474 |
Number of Pages | 20 |
Year | 2011 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0143-6597 |
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. |
Keywords | disability studies; disability law; ableism, Sri Lanka |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 489999. Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified |
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Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q37wz/geodisability-knowledge-production-and-international-norms-a-sri-lankan-case-study
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