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dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Fiona Kumari
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:57:55Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:57:55Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-02-10T02:55:40Z
dc.identifier.issn1360-2241
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01436597.2011.604518
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/42329
dc.description.abstractDisability is a representational system and its denotation is a result of how communities make sense of and mark corporeal differences. In this paper I argue that the UN norm standard setting, a form of geodisability knowledge, determines the kinds of bodies known as disabled and acts as a technology of disability governmentality. The institutional strategic gaze, sited in the UN, examines, normalises and conditions nation-states. Without consensual international disability norms it would not be possible to disclose and make visible the dynamics of disability at a country level and for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to map disability globally. An alternate reading of international norms is to figure the functioning of geodisability knowledge to naturalise it through codifying hegemonic ways of seeing, citing and situating disability and thus colonise different cultural approaches to disability. A discussion of geodisability knowledge production is pursued within the context of a Sri Lankan case study.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1455
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1474
dc.relation.ispartofissue8
dc.relation.ispartofjournalThird World Quarterly
dc.relation.ispartofvolume32
dc.rights.retentionN
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw and Society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchStudies in Human Society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode180119
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode16
dc.titleGeodisability Knowledge Production and International Norms: a Sri Lankan case study
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Law
gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorCampbell, Fiona Kumari KA.


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