Disability, Able-Bodiedness, and the Biopolitical Imagination

Main Article Content

Thomas Jordan

Keywords

empire, globalization, biopolitics

Abstract

Following the work of Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Giorgio Agamben, this article offers a theoretical analysis of the relationship between modern forms of biopolitics and discourses of disability and able-bodiedness in the context of globalization.
Abstract 1453 | PDF Downloads 477 Word Downloads 122 Text Downloads 213

References

Agamben, G. (1995). Homo sacer: Sovereign power and bare life. California: Stanford University Press.

Aherns, K. (2010). Disability in discourses of national exceptionalism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies. Philadelphia, PA.

Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C.A § 12101 et seq. (West 1993).

Arendt, H. (1958). The human condition. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Bauman, Z. (1989). Modernity and the holocaust. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Baynton, D. (2001). Disability and the justification of inequality in American history. In P. K. Longmore & L. Umansky (Eds.), The new disability history: American perspectives (pp. 33-57). New York, NY: New York University Press.

Davis, L. (2002). Bending over backwards: Disability, dismodernism, and other difficult positions. New York, NY: New York University Press.

Davis, L. (1995). Enforcing normalcy: Disability, deafness, and the body. New York: Verso.

Davidson, M. (2008). Concerto for the left hand: Disability and the defamiliar body. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Dyson, M. E. (2007). Come hell or high water: Hurricane katrina and the color of disaster. New York: Basic Civitas Books.

Erevelles, N., & Minear, A. (2010). Unspeakable offensives: Untangling race and disability in discourses of intersectionality. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 127-145.

Fink, S. (2009, August 30). The deadly choices at Memorial. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com

Foucault, M. (1979). Discipline and punish. (A. Sheridan, Trans.). New York: Vintage. (Original work published in 1975).

Foucault, M. (1990).The history of sexuality, vol.1: An introduction. (R. Hurley, Trans.). New York: Vintage. (Original work published 1976).

Ghai, A. (2002). Disability in the Indian context: Postcolonial perspectives. In M. Corker & T. Shakespeare (Eds.), Disability/postmodernity (pp. 88-100). London: Continuum.

Held, D., & McGrew, A. (2003). The great globalization debate: An introduction. In D. Held & A. McGrew (Eds.), The global transformations reader: An introduction to the globalization debate, second edition (pp. 1-50). UK: Polity.

Hemingway, L., and Priestley, M. (2006). Natural hazards, human vulnerability, and disabling societies: A disaster for disabled people? The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 2(3), 57-67.

Mbembe, A. (2003). Necropolitics. Public Culture, 15(1), 11-40.

McRuer, R. (2006). Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability. New York: New York University Press.

McRuer, R. (2010). Disability nationalism in crip times. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 163-178.

Mitchell, D., & Snyder, S.L. (2010). Introduction: Ablenationalism and the geo-politics of disability. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 113-125.

Puar, J. K. (2007). Terrorist assemblages: Homonationalism in queer times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Quayson, A. (2007). Aesthetic nervousness: Disability and the crisis of representation. New York: Columbia University Press.

Siebers, T. (2008). Disability theory. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Tremain, S. (2005). Foucault and the government of disability. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Žižek, S. (2010). Living in the end times. London: Verso.