Engaging with materialism and material reality: Critical disability studies and economic recession
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Flynn, S., Engaging with materialism and material reality: Critical disability studies and economic recession, Disability & Society, 32, 2, 2017, 143 - 159Download Item:
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Critical disability studies has been accused of preoccupation with cultural, lingual and discursive matters, and in doing so failing to adequately engage with the often-harsh material reality of disability. This has contributed to a circumstance in which disability studies has produced a lack of material focused directly upon economic processes. Concurrently, disabled people have encountered a momentous economic recession that has threatened their basic economic and human rights. This article seeks to address what is evidently a gap in the burgeoning critical disability and disability studies literature. That is, a gap largely uninhabited by attempts to apply a critical disability studies perspective to macro-economic processes. The article focuses predominantly on two facets of critical disability studies as identified by Goodley: the self and other, and intersectionality. The article concludes that critical disability studies has much to offer through the production of new understandings of economic processes.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2017.1284650http://hdl.handle.net/2262/91083
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Author: Flynn, Susan
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2017.1284650http://hdl.handle.net/2262/91083
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Disability & Society32
2
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Inclusive Society , Families & Social Change , Social WorkDOI:
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