States of exceptionality: provisional disability, its mitigation and citizenship F. Campbell VIEWS 229 INFO more
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Chapter Title | States of exceptionality: provisional disability, its mitigation and citizenship F. Campbell |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
Book Title | Disability: Insights from across fields and around the world |
Authors | |
Author | Campbell, Fiona Kumari |
Editors | Marshall, Catherine, Kendall, Elizabeth and Gover, Reva |
Volume | 3 |
Page Range | 273-284 |
Chapter Number | 19 |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Year | 2009 |
Publisher | Praeger Publishers |
Place of Publication | New York |
ISBN | 9780313346057 |
Abstract | This chapter examines the ways in which law mediates medico-technological formulations of impairment. Many years ago it was hard to imagine a scenario where people with disability could be pressured into obtaining surgical, prosthetic or pharmacological interventions in order to avail themselves of the identity of the ‘disabled person’, thus enabling them, to access social services and legislative protections. First, I explore how law operates as a narrative and provides an outline of legal baggage and backdrops. The legal storyteller makes certain unconscious and implicit choices regarding the spaces and places within which the narrative or story of disability unfolds. Rather than being neutral, these choices reinforce a performative passion for sameness and a notion that disability is inherently negative. I then explore disabled peoples’ encounter with the law and the matter of mitigation of disability in law. Finally, I demonstrate how these legal formulations have the capacity to redefine disability as being provisional or tentative. |
Keywords | disability studies; ableism; disability law; social theory; mitigation and disability |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 441005. Social theory |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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