Living On; Not Getting Better
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Shildrick (0000-0002-9360-0931, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-24 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/fr.2015.22 |
| OpenAlex | W2122046706 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 47 |
The contemporary emergence of the concept 'debility', which pertains to a broad swathe of humanity whose ordinary lives simply persist without ever getting better, shares a time span with an acute critique of neo-liberal biopolitics. Where capital has historically relied on a population that through its labour necessarily becomes debilitated, the newer model of understanding references the intrinsic profitability of debility itself. The two dimensions overlap and co-exist, but what I shall pursue here are the implications of recognising that, at the most fundamental level, it is in the interests of neo-liberalism to produce and sustain bodies as debilitated and therefore susceptible to a range of market commodities that hold out the promise of therapeutic interventions into the relative failures of physical, cognitive and affective embodiment. In previous work, I have argued strongly for the inherent vulnerability of all bodies, but in considering here a more overtly politicised context, it becomes possible to readdress the questions posed by Jasbir Puar: 'which bodies are made to pay for "progress"? Which debilitated bodies can be reinvigorated for neoliberalism, and which cannot?' And at the present moment, writing at a time of imposed austerity, I would add, what, if anything, is lost in the deployment of the term debility instead of disability
Aesthetics · Austerity · Biopower · Context (archaeology) · Debility · Economics · Epistemology · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Positive economics · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · History · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
A feminist neomaterialist exploration of bariatric surgery in Canada
Radical Geriatric Caregiving
Introduction
Uzak, or the unbearable lightness of the ordinary
Chronic Pain as Emotion
Toward a Cripistemology of Eco-Anxiety
The Family, Generation and Kinship in the Television Series Years and Years
Toward Crip Ecologies
Disturbing able-bodiedness in ‘vulnerable’ schools
Commodifying Diversity in the Marketing of a Digital Hearing Start-Up
Revisioning aging
Relating through differences
Eliciting Narratives of Disorientation
Like clockwork? (Re)imagining rhythms and routines when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Platform Economies of Debility
“This Isn’t the South Bronx”
The Last Dance
Neoliberal Misfits
Mobilizing feminist disability studies for expansive social work scholarship
The right to be weary? Endurance and exhaustion in austere times
Theorising liminal states of health
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram
Disability in Political Science
Gender, Disability Rights and Violence Against Medical Bodies
Feminist Disability Studies as Methodology
Using Pain, Living with Pain
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Neoliberalism and Embodied Precarity
Disability and the (dysbiotic) gut
Activism, Anthropology, and Disability Studies in Times of Austerity
Cruel Optimism
Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality
The Biopolitics of Disability
Inventing our Selves
Sexual Citizenship, Governance and Disability
Bodily Vulnerability, Coalitions, and Street Politics
Cruel Optimism
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Feminist, Queer, Crip
A History of Disability
Embodying the Monster
Happiness
The Promise of Happiness
Proliferating Cripistemologies
The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip
Gay Pasts and Disability Future(s) Tense
No longer deserving? Sickness benefit reform and the politics of (ill) health
Precarity Talk
The Place of Disgust
The language of shirkers and scroungers?’ Talking about illness, disability and coalition welfare reform
Reporting disability in the age of austerity
Becoming rhizomatic parents
Demonised, impoverished and now forced into isolation
Dis/ability and austerity
Stepping outside normative neoliberal discourse
Why Should Our Bodies End at the Skin?”
Asian American Speech, Civic Place, and Future Nondisabled Bodies
Anti-Oedipus
A thousand plateaus
Women, Poverty Policy, and the Production of Neoliberal Politics in Ontario, Canada
The Neoliberal Circulation of Affects
Life Writing and Intimate Publics
Prognosis time
You Could Truly Be Yourself If You Just Weren't You
In a Word.Interview
Difference in Itself
Coda
Living in Prognosis
Governing Embodiment
Political and educational springboard or straitjacket? Theorising post/human subjects in an age of vulnerability
The Queer Art of Failure
Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)
Disability and the Implications of the Wellbeing Agenda
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |