Disability, embodiment and ableism: stories of resistance

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

Ema Loja (Author) FPCEUP; Maria Emília Costa (Author) FPCEUP; Bill Hughes (Author) Other; Isabel Menezes (Author) FPCEUP

Journal

Title: DISABILITY & SOCIETY

Vol. 28 No. 2

Pages: 190-203

ISSN: 0968-7599

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Scientific classification

FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Clinical medicine

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-005-2KB

DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2012.705057

Abstract (EN): Non-disabled responses to visible impairment embody either social invisibility or over-attentiveness. The subjective and inter-subjective experiences of impaired bodies and intersubjective encounters within society are important aspects of disablement and the construction of a disabled identity. Impairment is read by and influences the social structure of ableism. This paper attempts to understand how ableist discourses about impaired bodies have impacted on and been resisted by disabled people and how embodiment is related to identity. In pursuit of these aims, a qualitative study was conducted with seven people who have visible physical impairments. The results indicate that disabled embodiment is produced and experienced within an ableist context that mobilizes the charitable gaze and the medical model to signify impaired bodies at the expense of the recognition of disabled identity. In order to deconstruct ableism and to recognize and respect the value of the disabled identity, a politics of recognition is required.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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No. of pages: 14