Disability and Social Theory
New Developments and Directions
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Why theory? It is a question the Greeks would probably not have asked. Theoria for our classical cousins was about ‘contemplation’, reflecting on observation and experience, in other words, ways of making sense o...
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Elimination and/or correction have been the primary social response to disabled people in modernity. The primary form of experience (of disability), during the same period, has been one of invalidation. Invali...
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Theorising disability lies at the heart of many recent social scientific engagements with the body, subjectivity, culture and society. Disability studies have developed across, through and with disciplines of ...
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In chapter 1 of Capital, Volume I, Karl Marx famously depicts the commodity — the dominant kind of things produced under capitalism — as a mysterious, irrational, and contradictory being. The contradiction is bet...