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dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Fiona Kumari
dc.contributor.editorAlex Bruns, Special Issue: Liz Ferrier & Viv Muller
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:21:55Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:21:55Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2012-09-10T23:08:56Z
dc.identifier.issn14412616
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/21384
dc.description.abstractFeminist Rosemary Tong long ago alluded to the profound possibilities of using critical disability studies theory to recomprehend and respatialize the landscape of thinking about race and gender as sites of signification. This piece presents a preliminary conversation in the emergent field of studies in ableism and desires to not only problematize but refuse the notion of able(ness). Our attention is on Ableism's production and performance. Such an exploratory work is indebted to conversations already commenced by Campbell, Hughes and Overboe. My approach is three pronged. Firstly I explore the problem of speaking/thinking/feeling - about the Other (in this case persons referred to as 'disabled people') and the 'extraordinary' Other, the 'Abled'. This conversation is captured under the banner of "The Ableist Project". Here I argue it is necessary to shift the gaze of contemporary scholarship away from the spotlight on disability to a more nuanced exploration of epistemologies and ontologies of ableism. As part of this project of exposure my second task then will be to tease out the strands of what can be called "Ableist Relations", including the effects of the compulsion to emulate ableist regulatory norms. Finally, as part of a commitment to make the necessary connections between theory and practice, I look at the tasks ahead in the refusal of Ability and the commitment to a disability/not-abled imaginary.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherQueensland University of Technology
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttp://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/46
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofeditionOnline
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalM/C - Media and Culture
dc.relation.ispartofvolume11
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchFilm, Television and Digital Media
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and Media Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1902
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2001
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2002
dc.titleRefusing Able(ness): A Preliminary Conversation about Ableism
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Law
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2008 . For information about this journal please refer to the publisher’s website or contact the author. Articles published in M/C Journal are open access and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
gro.date.issued2008
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gro.griffith.authorCampbell, Fiona Kumari KA.


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