1st Edition

Disability and Neoliberal State Formations

By Karen Soldatic Copyright 2019
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Disability and Neoliberal State Formations explores the trajectory of neoliberalism in Australia and its impact on the lives of Australians living with disability, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It examines the emergence, intensification and normalisation of neoliberalism across a 20-year period, distilling the radical changes to disability social security and... Read more

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; Chapter 1: Introduction: Disability and the Australian State; Chapter 2: Technologies of Disability Reclassification; Chapter 3: Moralising the Disabled Subject: Resentment, Disgust and Shame; Chapter 4: Neoliberalising Disability Temporal Relations; Chapter 5: Indigenous Disability in Regional Australia; Chapter 6: Conclusion: Disability and the Neoliberal State; References; Index



Biography

Karen Soldatic is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2016–2019) at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. She was awarded a Fogarty Foundation Excellence in Education Fellowship for 2006–2009, a British Academy International Fellowship in 2012 and a fellowship at The Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University (2011–2012), where she remains an Adjunct Fellow. Her research on global welfare regimes builds on her 20 years of experience as an international, national and state-based senior policy analyst, researcher and practitioner. She obtained her PhD (Distinction) in 2010 from the University of Western Australia.