Goodley, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-0660-5671 (2018) Understanding Disability: Biopsychology, Biopolitics, and an In-Between-All Politics. Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 35 (3). pp. 308-319. ISSN 0736-5829
Abstract
What do disability labels give us and what do they steal from us? How possible is it to live our lives without categories when life – which encompasses these nebulous categories of culture, society and relationships – is so, well, necessarily categorical? These questions are typical of the kinds of questions asked by scholars of critical disability studies which is an interdisciplinary field that brings together people interested in understanding the meaning of disability and contesting the exclusion of disabled people from mainstream society. In this brief provocation I want to explore disability labels through recourse to three perspectives that have much to say about categorisation, disability and the human condition: the biopsychological, the biopolitical and, what I term, an in-between-al politics. It is my view that disability categories intervene in the world in some complex and often contradictory ways. It is up to us to work out how we live with these contradictions. One way of living with contradictions is to work across disciplinary boundaries: thus situating ourselves across divides and embracing uncertainty and contradiction in order to enhance all our lives. I will conclude with some interdisciplinary thoughts for the field of Adapted Physical Activity (APA).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 2018, Volume 35, Issue 3: pp 308-319, https://doi.org/10.1123/apaq.2017-0092. © Human Kinetics, Inc 2018. |
Keywords: | disability; identity development; intellectual disability; sociological perspectives |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2018 14:02 |
Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2018 15:14 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1123/apaq.2017-0092 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Human Kinetics |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1123/apaq.2017-0092 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:129048 |