Reimagining Disablist and Ableist Violence as Abjection

ISBN-13: 9780367365547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 172 str.

Ryan Thorneycroft

Opis

Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection.

Spis treści

Formatting and other conventions;  Preface;  1.  Beginnings;  2.  Social Abjection and Reappropriation;  3. Deb’s Narrative: Exploring the Multi-Dimensional Forms of Abjection;  4. Roger’s Narrative: Abjection Amidst Chaos and Fragmentation;  5. Eleven Lives;  6. (Psychic) Self-Abjection: Pathologisation and Disavowal;  7. Anne-Marie’s Narrative: Abjection and Resistance;  8. Reflections, Possibilities, and Sites of Resistance;  Appendix: Research Method(ology).

O autorze

Ryan Thorneycroft is Lecturer in Criminology at Western Sydney University, Australia.