Working the edges of Posthuman disability studies

Theorising With Disabled Young People With Life-Limiting Impairments

Bibliographic Data

ID2249598
AuthorsK Liddiard (0000-0002-1220-3740, School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK, corresponding author), Sally Whitney (0000-0002-3340-6213, School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK), Katy Evans (0000-0001-5144-4507, School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK), Lucy Watts (School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK), Emma Vogelmann (School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK), Ruth Spurr (School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK), Carrie Aimes (School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK), Katherine Runswick-Cole (0000-0001-9658-9718, School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK), Dan Goodley (0000-0002-0660-5671, School of Education and iHuman University of Sheffield Sheffield UK)
Year2019
Volume41
Issue8
Pages1473-1487
Publication date2019-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12962
PMID31173378
OpenAlexW2948569201
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited31

This paper is built upon an assumption: that social theory can be generated through a meaningful engagement with a co-researcher group of disabled young people. Our co-researchers are theoretical provocateurs and theorists in their own right who, through their activism and writing, are challenging us to reconsider the meaning of life, death and disability. Their work on our funded Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project has enabled us to consider the promise and potential of humanist and posthuman epistemologies, theories, methodologies, interventions and activisms. The paper introduces the research, the authors of this paper (academics and co-researchers) and then explores three layers of analysis that work the edges of posthuman thinking; sovereign and assembled selves; affects and desires; mourning and affirmation. We conclude by asserting that as a research team we are engaging with a DisHuman approach to theory and activism: one that blends the pragmatics of humanism with posthuman possibilities

Disability studies · Epistemology · Humanism · Inclusion (mineral · Meaning (existential · Political science · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics