scholarly journals Introduction to Special Section on Crip Technoscience

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Fritsch ◽  
Aimi Hamraie ◽  
Mara Mills ◽  
David Serlin
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Feminist Technoscience ◽  
Critical Perspectives

This special section of Catalyst maps the central nodes of the emerging field of crip technoscience, which we situate at the intersection of feminist technoscience studies and critical disability studies. Crip technoscience marks areas of overlap between these fields as well as productive disciplinary and political tensions. Our section brings together critical perspectives on disability and science and technology in order to grapple with historical and contemporary debates related to digital and emerging technologies, treatments, risk, and practices of access, design, health, and enhancement.

Recent Work in Critical Disability Studies

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2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-244
Author(s):  
Hannah Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Disability Studies

scholarly journals Historical Epistemology as Disability Studies Methodology: From the Models Framework to Foucault’s Archaeology of Cure

2015 ◽  
pp. 108-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimi Hamraie
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Historical Epistemology ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Medical Authority ◽  
Disability History ◽  
Models Of Disability ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Construction Of Disability

In this article, I argue for historical epistemology as a methodology for critical disability studies (DS) by examining Foucault’s archaeology of cure in History of Madness. Although the moral, medical, and social models of disability frame disability history as an advancement upon moral and medical authority and a replacement of it by sociopolitical knowledge, I argue that the more comprehensive frame in which these models circulate—the “models framework”—requires the more nuanced approach that historical epistemology offers. In particular, the models framework requires greater use of epistemology as an analytical tool for understanding the historical construction of disability. Thus, I turn to Foucault’s History of Madness in order to both excavate one particular archaeological strand in the text—the archaeology of cure—and to demonstrate how this narrative disrupts some of the key assumptions of the models framework, challenging DS to consider the epistemological force of non-medical fields of knowledge for framing disability and procedures for its cure and elimination. I conclude by arguing that DS must develop historical epistemological methodologies that are sensitive to the complex overlays of moral, medical, and social knowledge, as well as attend to the social construction of scientific and biomedical knowledge itself.

scholarly journals Toward a Crip-of-Color Critique: Thinking with Minich's 'Enabling Whom?'

Lateral ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jina B Kim
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Academic Labor

Response to Julie Avril Minich, "Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now," published in Lateral 5.1. Kim elaborates upon a crip-of-color critique, which has possibilities to both criticize structures that inherently devalue humans and to take action to work toward justice. Kim’s final call is to identify and act against the inequalities and harm of academic labor, urging readers to take seriously a “politics of refusal” that might help academics of color survive through alternative collectivities.

Introduction: Disabling the Human

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-34
Author(s):  
Stuart Murray
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
Twenty First Century

Introduces the central features of the book: a concentration of critical disability studies and posthuman theory; questions of embodiment and technology; the focus on twenty- and twenty-first- century literatures and twenty-first-century film. The introduction also outlines the contents of the chapters and has a particular focus on the writings of L. Frank Baum, especially The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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