1st Edition
Reimagining Disablist and Ableist Violence as Abjection
By Ryan Thorneycroft
Copyright 2021
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection.
Extending interdisciplinary dialogues and approaches, it abandons a construct of violence (which by law requires a stable notion of a victim and a... Read more
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Preface
1. Beginnings
2. Social Abjection and Reappropriation
3. Deb’s Narrative: Exploring the Multi-Dimensional Forms of Abjection
4. Roger’s Narrative: Abjection Amidst Chaos and Fragmentation
5. Eleven Lives
6. (Psychic) Self-Abjection: Pathologisation and Disavowal
7. Anne-Marie’s Narrative: Abjection and Resistance
8. Reflections, Possibilities, and Sites of Resistance
Appendix – Method(ology)
Biography
Ryan Thorneycroft is Lecturer in Criminology at Western Sydney University, Australia.
