The Excessive Appearance of Disability
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| Title: | The Excessive Appearance of Disability |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Michalko, Rod |
| Source: | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE). Jan 2009 22(1):65-74. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 10 |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Biomedicine, Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Cultural Influences |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09518390802581885 |
| ISSN: | 0951-8398 |
| Abstract: | This paper engages the appearance of disability in contemporary Western culture. Rather than taking disability for granted as a biomedical condition, I interrogate how disability is made to appear in our culture, including its appearance as a biomedical condition. Fundamentally, disability appears to us as a trouble and, as such, cultural practices steeped in a medical paradigm are invoked as a way to rid ourselves of the trouble of disability. This trouble is transformed into the cultural requirement of making disability disappear into the normative order through conceiving of disability as a conditional feature of human life. This paper concludes by theorizing disability as excess, as too much and not enough. I demonstrate how such a conception of disability permits its normalization while disallowing any engagement with it as having anything to teach us about the social process of norming. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 15 |
| Entry Date: | 2009 |
| Accession Number: | EJ827310 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This paper engages the appearance of disability in contemporary Western culture. Rather than taking disability for granted as a biomedical condition, I interrogate how disability is made to appear in our culture, including its appearance as a biomedical condition. Fundamentally, disability appears to us as a trouble and, as such, cultural practices steeped in a medical paradigm are invoked as a way to rid ourselves of the trouble of disability. This trouble is transformed into the cultural requirement of making disability disappear into the normative order through conceiving of disability as a conditional feature of human life. This paper concludes by theorizing disability as excess, as too much and not enough. I demonstrate how such a conception of disability permits its normalization while disallowing any engagement with it as having anything to teach us about the social process of norming. |
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| ISSN: | 0951-8398 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09518390802581885 |
