Goodley, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-0660-5671, Lawthom, R., Liddiard, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-1220-3740 et al. (1 more author) (2021) The desire for new humanisms. Journal of Disability Studies in Education, 1 (1-2). pp. 125-144. ISSN 2588-879X
Abstract
This paper articulates our desire for new humanisms in a contemporary cultural, economic and global context that has been described as posthuman. As researchers committed to modes of radical, critical, politicised and inclusive education, we are mindful of the significance of social theory and its relationship with articulations of social justice. Whilst sympathetic to the potentiality of posthuman thought we grapple with the imperative to embrace new humanisms that historicise and recognise global inequalities that concurrently exist in relation to a myriad of human categories including class, age, geopolitical location, gender, sexuality, race and disability. We focus in on the latter two categories and draw on ideas from postcolonial and critical disability studies. Our argument considers the problem of humanism (as a product of colonial Western imaginaries), the critical responses offered by posthuman thinking and then seeks to rearticulate forms of new humanism that are responsive to the posthuman condition and, crucially, the political interventions of Postcolonial and Critical Disability Scholars. We then outline six new humanist projects that could productively feed into the work of the Journal of Disability Studies in Education.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Humanism; the posthuman; Wynter; Hunt; Fanon; Oliver; Postcolonial; disability studies |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Economic and Social Research Council ES/P001041/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2020 07:41 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2022 13:46 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Brill |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1163/25888803-00101003 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:164423 |
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