scholarly journals A (in)visibilidade da monstruosidade do corpo deficiente na/pela história e a produção de sentidos na contemporaneidade (The (in)visibility of the disabled body monstrosity in/for the history and the production of meanings in the contemporary times )

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Érica Danielle Silva
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Specific Production ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Production Conditions

Filiando-nos aos pressupostos teóricos de Michel Foucault, tomamos como objeto de reflexão o sujeito deficiente, inquietados pelas estratégias e mecanismos linguístico-discursivos que promovem a (in)visibilidade da pessoa com deficiência na/pela histo?ria. Neste texto, objetivamos compreender a monstruosidade do corpo como um dispositivo do olhar cujas técnicas são moldadas e atualizadas de acordo com o investimento político dispensado ao corpo deficiente em condições de produção específicas. Para tanto, levantamos as condições de existência dos discursos que constituem a monstruosidade do corpo deficiente até o século XIX e discutimos, a partir de enunciados efetivamente produzidos, como esse regime do olhar produz sentidos em condições de produção outras.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Sujeito com deficiência; Monstruosidade; Memória discursiva; Análise do Discurso.ABSTRACT Following the theoretical assumptions of Michel Foucault, we take as the object of reflection the disabled people, disquieted by the strategies and linguistic-discursive mechanisms that promote the (in)visibility of disabled people in/for the history. In this text, we aim at understanding the monstrosity of the body as a device whose techniques are molded and updated according to the policy investment dispensed to the disabled people in specific production conditions. Therefore, we raise the living conditions of the discourses that constitute the monstrosity of the disabled body until the nineteenth century and discussed, from statements actually produced, how this lokking regime produces senses in other production conditions. KEYWORDS: Disabled people; Monstrosity; Discursive Memory; Discourse Analysis.

scholarly journals CORPO-SUJEITO-DISCURSO: REFLEXÕES INICIAIS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Bedin Jordão
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Mutilation ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Production Conditions

O presente artigo, inscrito nos pressupostos teóricos da Análise de Discurso, traz à baila algumas reflexões sobre as relações entre sujeito, corpo e discurso. Propõe-se uma discussão acerca do corpo enquanto materialidade discursiva e objeto simbólico, configurando-se como uma superfície de inscrição que dá a ver o que é da ordem do sujeito e dos atravessamentos do exterior que o constitui, em especial no que tange ao indizível e ao inominável. Aponta-se para a relevância de considerar os efeitos das condições de produção contemporâneas nos discursos do/sobre o corpo, bem como sobre o lugar da imagem do corpo e ao que ela comumente se encarrega. Exemplos disso são a suspensão da exposição “Queermuseu” e as manifestações de sofrimento psíquico em relevo na atualidade, como as automutilações. Afirmando as possibilidades de os sentidos desdobrarem-se e deslizarem através do corpo, afirma-se a importância de problematizar o que o corpo e sua imagem põem em cena em seu estatuto discursivo.  Abstract:  This article, enrolled in the theoretical assumptions of Discourse Analysis, brings to light some reflections about the relations between subject, body and discourse. The discussion here proposed it is about the body as a discursive materiality and symbolic object, configuring and setting itself as a surface of inscription that shows what it belongs in the order of the subject and the crossings of the exterior that constitutes it, especially in regard to the unspeakable and the nameless. The relevance of considering the effects of contemporary production conditions on the discourses of the body as well as on the place of the image of the body and what it is commonly handled is pointed out. Examples of this are the suspension of the exhibition "Queermuseu" and the manifestations of psychic suffering in the present day, such as self-mutilation.  Affirming the possibilities of the senses unfolding and sliding through the body, one affirms the importance of problematizing what the body and its image put into the scene in its discursive status. 

scholarly journals Vile Sovereigns in Bioethical Debate

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Hall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Reproductive Technology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Bioethical Debate ◽  
Do So

<p>In this paper, I critically assess transhumanist philosophy and its influence in bioethics by turning to resources in the work of Michel Foucault. I begin by outlining transhumanism and drawing out some of the primary goals of transhumanist philosophy. In order to do so, I focus on the work of Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, two prominent contributors to this thinking. I then move to explicate Foucault&rsquo;s work, in the early iterations of the <em>Abnormal</em> lecture series, on the concept of vile sovereignty. Foucault used the concept of vile sovereignty to critique psychiatric witnesses that had been utilized in mid twentieth-century French courts of law. Turning back to transhumanism, I analyze transhumanist discourse on the basis of Foucault&rsquo;s vile sovereignty. Transhumanists promote human enhancement in a way that rejects the body&mdash;especially the disabled body&mdash;and pose the question of what lives are worth living, as well as attempt to answer it. I conclude that because of the undeserved influence and ableism of transhumanism, it is important for feminist philosophers, philosophers of disability, and other disability scholars, who collide at the nexus of bioethical debate (especially with regard to reproductive technology and the body), to work together to intervene upon transhumanist discourse.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>Keywords: bioethics; enhancement; Foucault; transhumanism; ableism</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Disability in Herefordshire, 1851–1911

2011 ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Christine Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Age Distribution ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Disability History ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
The Disabled

Disability history is a comparatively new field of study, and to date little use has been made of the British census as a source because of its perceived difficulties. This article shows that it is possible to study a local, disabled population in the second half of the nineteenth century from this source, even thought the way in which individuals' disabilities are described can sometimes vary from one census to the next. Age distribution for each condition and was found to vary between those with congenital and those with acquired conditions. Among those with a handicap of sight, hearing or speech a higher proportion remained unmarried. Disabled people were likely to remain in the parental home until their late thirties, and when their parents died they moved in with siblings or became a lodger or inmate. Although few of the disabled children seemed to be receiving education, over 60 per cent of the adult males were found to be working and almost 25 per cent of the adult females. Disabled people, it appears, were viewed not merely as statistics, but were included as members of the local population, and not always dependent members.

Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability

Hypatia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Wendell
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Biological Reality ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Cultural Oppression

We need a feminist theory of disability, both because 16 percent of women are disabled, and because the oppression of disabled people is closely linked to the cultural oppression of the body. Disability is not a biological given; like gender, it is socially constructed from biological reality. Our culture idealizes the body and demands that we control it. Thus, although most people will be disabled at some time in their lives, the disabled are made “the other,” who symbolize failure of control and the threat of pain, limitation, dependency, and death. If disabled people and their knowledge were fully integrated into society, everyone's relation to her/his real body would be liberated.

scholarly journals Magic on Wheels: A Study of Re-engagement, Re-enactment and Re-staging the Stereotypes of Performativity and Performance of Persons with Disabilities in the Choreography of Syed Sallauddin Pasha

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radhika Sharma ◽  
◽  
Nagendra Kumar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Art And Activism

Amidst society’s segregation of the people among minorities on the basis of gender, race, caste and creed, it is difficult to locate the position of another extreme social minority, i.e. persons with disabilities. But the turn of the century has validated some art and activism performed by persons with disabilities due to which the disabled have marked their position in literature, film and media to some extent, yet they have not secured a position of dignity in the mainstream. To make disabled people visible, Syed Sallauddin Pasha (the father of Indian dance therapy for persons with disabilities) initiates his own Natya Shastra i.e. Classical Wheelchair Dances for differently-abled artists. Drawing upon Syed Sallauddin Pasha’s therapeutic dance choreography, the present paper studies performance arts in the context of differently-abled people, and for this, the paper explores the intersection of Performance Studies and Disability Studies. In performing arts (or dance in particular), the body is the medium of representation, likewise, the body defines the identity in the context of disabled people. Therefore, the paper by studying the intersection of Disability Studies and Performance Studies, explores the stereotypes related to the body by scrutinising the disabled dance bodies on the stage. The paper further attempts to explore the idea of accessibility for persons with disabilities by taking into account the assistive devices and accessible architecture. The study then goes into an analysis of spectators’ response, stare and gaze towards disability dance performances. In a broader context, the paper offers to scrutinise the negative stereotypes attached to disability and disabled dancing bodies on stage by exploring the nuances in Syed Sallauddin Pasha’s choreography.

scholarly journals NARRATIVE RITUAL AND EXCLUSION: the life story by the discursivized body in Rede Globo's memorial series

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. a3en
Author(s):  
Duílio Fabbri Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
The Body ◽  
Functional Correlation ◽  
Special Series ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of this article is to analyze the presentation ritual done by journalist-witnesses, who were part of the narrative of a 'special' series produced for celebrating Rede Globo's 50th anniversary, aired in Jornal Nacional, in April 2015. To achieve this goal, we use authors like Michel Foucault and Paul Ricouer as our bases for discourse, ritual, memory and history. The intention is to reflect on a functional correlation between two fields of knowledge – Linguistics and History – aiming to analyze discursive-narrative practices, based on the production of meanings on the body of journalists. We will also investigate the subjectivity of the subject in their relations to themselves and/or to the world outside in the way they constitute themselves. The theoretical-methodological approach is discourse analysis. Reflections lead us to believe the body is nothing but resistance and power. 

Using Pain, Living with Pain

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
The People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Crip Theory ◽  
Experience Pain

This paper presents the early findings of research into the experiences of pain for those who live with chronic pain and engage in BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism), explored using a critical crip approach rooted in crip theory and feminist disability studies. The research took the form of a series of interviews with eight disabled people living with chronic pain who experience pain in their BDSM practices, developing a narrative of experiences. The majority of those living with chronic pain, or who have diagnoses of chronic illnesses causing chronic pain, are women. Chronic pain is frequently assumed to be similar to acute pain; however, thinking through pain in terms of normativity and able-bodymindedness reveals the ableist structures that underpin normative attitudes towards pain and those who are in pain. Pain is understood as dehumanising—and thus the person living with chronic pain is understood as not human, abnormal, and disabled. The disabled body, the body in pain, is a horrifying object of abjection, and the non-disabled observer assumes that to be in pain is to suffer; therefore, living with chronic pain is understood as an ontological impossibility and must be stopped. BDSM is a series of practices forming a space in which the people living with chronic pain in this study are able to engage with their somatic experience in ways that do not expect normalcy, while being disabled and living with chronic pain gives them space to explore non-normative sexual practices.

scholarly journals Seeing the whole man: a visualist analysis of artificial limbs at the end of the nineteenth century

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Crompton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Artificial Limbs ◽  
Artificial Limb ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Visual Culture Studies

The thesis uses the central concerns of visual culture studies to investigate the shift towards artificial limbs that imitate the body as identified by Steven Mihm (2002). Drawing on a modified, less utopian, form of critical discourse analysis, which recognizes the sociocultural power of the visual, this thesis interrogates the promotional literature that the A.A. Marks Company, an artificial limb manufacturer, produced between 1888 and 1920. This thesis critically analyzes the techniques used by the company to assert their authority to frame their relationship to their clients. In addition, this analysis interrogates the company's use of the technologies of vision to champion visually imitative prosthesis. The goal of this analysis is to determine how the company deployed the turn towards the imitative, and what was at stake for the producers, and consumers, as well as the wider culture in the use of imitative limbs.

scholarly journals Sequence Analysis of How Disability Influenced Life Trajectories in a Past Population from the Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 97-119
Author(s):  
Lotta Vikström ◽  
Helena Haage ◽  
Erling Häggström Lundevaller
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sequence Analysis ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Premature Deaths ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Life Course

Historically, little is known about whether and to what extent disabled people found work and formed families. To fill this gap, this study analyses the life course trajectories of both disabled and non-disabled individuals, between the ages of 15 and 33, from the Sundsvall region in Sweden during the nineteenth century. Having access to micro-data that report disabilities in a population of 8,874 individuals from the parish registers digitised by the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, we employ sequence analysis on a series of events that are expected to occur in life of young adults: getting a job, marrying and becoming a parent, while also taking into account out-migration and death. Through this method we obtain a holistic picture of the life course of disabled people. Main findings show that their trajectories did not include work or family to the same extent as those of non-disabled people. Secondary findings concerning migration and mortality indicate that the disabled rarely out-migrated from the region, and they suffered from premature deaths. To our knowledge this is the first study to employ sequence analysis on a substantially large number of cases to provide demographic evidence of how disability shaped human trajectories in the past during an extended period of life. Accordingly, we detail our motivation for this method, describe our analytical approach, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with sequence analysis for our case study.

scholarly journals Perspectiva linguístico-discursiva na terapêutica da gagueira

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Pereira da Silva Gonçalves de Azevedo ◽  
Jônia Alves Lucena
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Speech Analysis ◽  
Muscular Tension ◽  
Production Conditions ◽  
New View

Endorsed in the theoretical estimates by the Analysis of the The French Discourse Analysis, that defines the person as social and marked ideologically, we analyze the therapeutical process of stuttering subjects from the perspective of that discourse linguistics conception. Under this view, we discuss Speech Therapeutic works that take stuttering as a manifestation of the body, involving muscular tension, breath, production of speech, genetics, in sum, an “illness”. We review Speech Therapeutic quarrels about stuttering, and launch a new view, from the discourse linguistics perspective, with therapeutically possibilities for these stuttering subjects. We analyze the speech clippings from the speech analysis of two stuttering subjects in process of Speech Therapeutic attendance, in a longitudinal form. We assume, thus, stuttering as a language matter, directly related to the production conditions, with therapeutically possibilities under the same perspective.

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