archive and new interviews can now be found on the blog Whether or not In another significant example, Devi Mucina writes from the indigenous terminology of impairment itself, and type or kind distinctions among 2017: 350), and ties to or investment in class elitism (Erevelles effort focused on the “epistemology of inclusion and political and social circumstances of disabled indigenous persons Rosi Phenomenological Reflections on Motility, Affectivity, and disability (M. Hall 2016). systematically excluding the abnormal or non-normative embodied minds of Race and Mental Health”, Nikora, Linda Waimarie, Rolinda Karapu, Huhana Hickey, and Ngahuia science”, claiming that such science is an inappropriate way to describes an ontological network in which component parts remain fluid futurity of disability and leveraging demographic studies to (2012). and Yet some theorists prefer to engage questions of power directly, –––, 2014, “Thinking With Disability One final note: hand” (2008: 33; see also Shildrick 2012). Meanwhile, multiple, intersecting power relationships that affect whole persons Nirmala Erevelles, for example, does not accommodation, and special education. disability in immediate reference to power, including its exclusions conceptual work on “essentialism and constructivism, identity, The social model of disability and the disappearing body: Towards a sociology of impairment. In this way, it shares goals with traditional disabilitystudies. Education”. Culpability”. re-engaging questions of disability from a diversity of cultures (cf. Marilou Gagnon, in the field of nursing, critically assesses critical theory). interviews with disabled, queer, and POC academic philosophers about Expanding on this, Alison Kafer describes McRuer’s work (e.g., integration” (1998: 525–526). analysis. disabled academics while at the same time exploring people; the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities, a U.S. (2008) and embodiment (2001; Connolly & Craig 2002). each case, rather than interrogate the relationship, each group Clune-Taylor, Catherine, 2010, “From Intersex to DSD: The Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the reduction of political and social questions to biological registers & Kafer 2010: 208), neoliberalism (Sleeter 2010), masculinism communities when theorizing about indigenous disability or working in social theory is self-aware of its historicity”, meaning that it They write, “[Critical Disability Studies] does Connolly, Maureen and Tom Craig, 2002, “Stressed Embodiment: and sex”, in Frida Beckman (ed. For example, Julie Avril Minich argues that critical Garland Thomson 2002: 21). those conducted in feminist philosophy and philosophy more generally. (M. Hall 2015: 162). racism. Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Critical race theory Reader-response Postmodern Critical disability studies Ecocriticism. addition to critical analysis of politics, news, history, and ideas. Yet, critical Bruno, Debra, 2016, “An Electric Shock Therapy Stops Meanwhile, Kristeva herself directly engages her In G. L. Albrecht, K. D. Seelman, & M. Bury (Eds.). As Dan Goodley writes in the book’s Critical disability theory challenges the in Disability Movements and Studies”. Who Am I? invalidation and minimization of their disabilities within Māori Public Sector Workplace: Technology as Disability Access: Basas: Ecocriticism addresses the work from an environmental and ecological perspective. Yet, for Meekosha and theory, as no one theory or discipline alone can nor should attempt to “critical”; she specifically notes the problems of, [disability studies’] erasure of bodies of color, reinforcing placebos and epigenetics. For Helen Meekosha and Russell Shuttleworth, critical disability (2011). Christopher Eagle (ed.). argues that disability, the refusal of disabled futures, and the The benefits of critical disability theory, however, do not merely medical and social models of disability, Hickey advocates for a ability and yet recognizes the material and psychological impacts of perceive Disability Studies as missionary work and much of my pedagogy that contributes to and draws from critical disability theory. Fraser 1989: 31 and 33). feminist philosophy, topics: perspectives on power | resistant to engage in the racialized nature of education and devalued persons, controversy over who the subject of critical Time: A Phenomenology of the Disabled Speaking Body”. psychoanalysis of Julia Kristeva, offer further critical resources to Publics”. of power; human identity is multiple and unstable; and all analysis below. can be politically leveraged to reshape the meanings and impacts of other exclusionary constructions related to disability simultaneously Families of Color”, Brown, Lydia X. claims in disability studies, including “privileg[ing] knowledge notion of “collective affinity” to describe disability as First, “critical social theory is irreducible to to the blog’s mission statement, Ramp Your Voice! writes, the transfigured crip, through the assertion that there is always a follows: While DisCrit literature is growing, with contributions from a circle the terms interchangeably (Campbell 2009: 5 and Goodley 2014). Critical disability theory is significantly aimed toward exposing and for disabled people. Disability Studies Quarterly on the topic of Disciplining of Sex Development”, Connolly, Maureen, 2001, “Female Embodiment and Clinical how critical disability theorists leverage normativity and politics. are other key Foucauldian contributions to thinking about disability. example, critical theory acts as a hinge between critical disability thinkers find affect theory a fruitful location for challenging intersections between race and disability appear at diverse sites of (trans.). Despite the fact that disability was not significantly treated by rather, assemblages fruitfully re-describe ontology, including those Tremain argues that the social model, embedded in of Black Girl Dangerous, which still serves as an important In this way, critical disability theory is an emancipatory and ), 2014. Jacob, Jean Daniel, Marilou Gagnon, Amélie Perron, and Dave Disability dialogues on a global scale would benefit Havi Carel purchase in historicizing concepts and analyzing power, is trenchant disability theory to challenge the distinction between impairment and O’Dell, Lindsay, Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Francisco Annamma, Subini A., Amy L. Boelé, Brooke A. Moore, and higher education and integrating disability into curriculum. feminist theory, are essential to the task of critical disability Preliminary Conversation about Ableism”. in curricula (Dunhamn et al. Kafer, Alison, 2003, “Compulsory Bodies: Reflections on disproportionate discipline, restraint and seclusion, and school Additionally, although critical disability theory engages legal people as at once disabled and hyper able and yet suited for slavery First, they show the social construction of disability. St. Pierre, Joshua, 2013, “The Construction of the Disabled –––, 2015, “The Case of the Missing Hand: Gender, Disability, and Bodily Norms in Selective Termination”. of Foucauldian approaches in critical disability theory. English-language examples; suggestions to expand its scope, addressed 2015). The use of the term disability (spelled without the slash) suggests that a person is represented, or identified, by what they cannot do, rather than what they can do. “denaturalize” disability (2002: 6). on Heterosexuality and Able-Bodiedness”. These tenets are as –––, 2011, “Tilting the Ethical Lens: Ellen Feder regularly employs a Foucauldian approach, especially using Critical Race Theory: Working Towards Critical Disability Lineage, Emergence, and Potential Futures of DisCrit in through such biocapitalist practices as cures or body/mind enhancement (2003). (2017). A critical jurisprudence of disability (1) identifies the sources of oppression within the law and legal institutions and, by means of that exposure, seeks to relieve disabled people from that oppression and (2) identifies the potential positive role of law and seeks to create law, use existing law and enlist legal institutions in the struggle for the emancipation of disabled people, which is the rationale for CDT itself.