Goodley, D. and Runswick-Cole, K. (2014) Becoming dishuman: thinking about the human through dis/ability. Discourse. Published online: 26 Jun 2014. ISSN 0159-6306
Abstract
In this paper, we seek to develop an understanding of the human driven by a commitment to the politics of disability, especially those of people with intellectual disabilities. Our position as family members and allies to people associated with this phenomenon of intellectual disability influences our philosophical conceptions and political responses. This has led us recently to develop a theory of dis/human studies which, we contend, simultaneously acknowledges the possibilities offered by disability to trouble, reshape and re-fashion the human (crip ambitions) while at the same time asserting disabled people's humanity (normative desires). We sketch out four dis/human considerations: (1) dis/autonomy, voice and evacuating the human individual; (2) dis/independence, assemblage and collective humanness; (3) dis/ability politics, self-advocacy and repositioning the human; and (4) dis/family: desiring the normal, embracing the non-normative. We argue that this feeds into the wider project of dis/ability studies, and we conclude that we desire a time when we view life through the prism of the dishuman (note, without the slash).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | civil society; disability; dishuman; human; humanism; inclusive education |
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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 Oct 2014 10:35 |
Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2014 10:35 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2014.930021 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01596306.2014.930021 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81267 |