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- Title
Disability as Abject: Kristeva, Disability, and Resistance.
- Authors
Dohmen, Josh
- Abstract
In this essay, I develop an account of disability exclusion that, though inspired by Julia Kristeva, diverges from her account in several important ways. I first offer a brief interpretation of Kristeva's essays 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and ... Vulnerability' and 'A Tragedy and a Dream: Disability Revisited' and, using this interpretation, I assess certain criticisms of Kristeva's position made by Jan Grue in his 'Rhetorics of Difference: Julia Kristeva and Disability.' I then argue that Kristeva's concept of abjection, especially as developed by Sara Ahmed and Tina Chanter, offers important insights into disability oppression; Ahmed's and Chanter's contributions improve upon Kristeva's account. Understanding disability as abject helps to explain both resistances to interacting with disabled others and ways to resist disability oppression. Finally, I argue that understanding disability as abject is preferable to recent deployments of Lacanian theory in disability studies and that this account is compatible with social models of disability.
- Subjects
DISABILITIES in literature; RESISTANCE (Philosophy); ABJECTION in literature; KRISTEVA, Julia, 1941-; CHANTER, Tina
- Publication
Hypatia, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 4, p762
- ISSN
0887-5367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/hypa.12266