Misfits
A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8069299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemarie Garland‐thomson (0000-0003-3999-6012, corresponding author), Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 591-609 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01206.x |
| OpenAlex | W2053092443 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 376 |
| References cited | 35 |
This article offers the critical concept misfit in an effort to further think through the lived identity and experience of disability as it is situated in place and time. The idea of a misfit and the situation of misfitting that I offer here elaborate a materialist feminist understanding of disability by extending a consideration of how the particularities of embodiment interact with the environment in its broadest sense, to include both its spatial and temporal aspects. The interrelated dynamics of fitting and misfitting constitute a particular aspect of world-making involved in material-discursive becoming. The essay makes three arguments: the concept of misfit emphasizes the particularity of varying lived embodiments and avoids a theoretical generic disabled body; the concept of misfit clarifies the current feminist critical conversation about universal vulnerability and dependence; the concept of misfitting as a shifting spatial and perpetually temporal relationship confers agency and value on disabled subjects
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Conversation · Epistemology · Identity (music · Materialism · Situated · Sociology · Structure and agency · Value (mathematics · Vulnerability (computing · Communication · Computer Science · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
To be wounded is to be read
Looking back to look ahead
Cripping fashion and desiring disabled bodies
Managing Fit at Work
A feminist neomaterialist exploration of bariatric surgery in Canada
Diagnosing employability
Shofar vibrations and braille scrolls
Living Obfuscation, Cultivating Clarity
Simulated empathy for vulnerability-centered tourism
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics
Sin fars rareste patent”
“This Is Not What I Thought Life Would Be Like”
Coloniality of Vulnerability
Crip Technoscience Manifesto
Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research
Understanding Disability Throughout History
Academic Ableism
The Case for Conserving Disability
The Meaning of Ability and Disability
Health as Vulnerability; Interdependence and Relationality
Progressive disability and shifting employment opportunities
Narrative Reconfiguration Across Contexts
Situated Embodied Affordances
Disabled and academic
The Body, the Earth. The Participation of Disabled People in the Environmental Discourse
Rural Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe
Fooling with Things
Doing infertility
The Girl in the Bubble
For Careful Slugs
Toward Inclusive Education? Focusing a Critical Lens on Universal Design for Learning
On Ambivalence
Integrating Crip Theory and Disability Justice into Feminist Anti-Violence Education
Woman Interrupted
Navigating the Real World
Crip Time as Space
Situating normality
Social Reproduction Theory and the Form of Labor Power
The incapacity to work as moving target. Exploring the possibilities of praxiography for analysing realities of disability in history
The unpredictable body, identity, and disclosure
Introduction
I, Misfit
Teaching journalism by a visually impaired instructor
Exploring Inequalities in the Social, Spatial and Material Practices of Teaching and Learning in Pandemic Times
Why Do You Ask Why
Beyond the Future
Theological Education with Neurodiversity in Mind
“Misfitting” and Friendship in the Virtuous Life
Speaking with Us, Not for Us
Decolonizing Disability in Social and Theology Structures
From Belonging as Supercrip to Misfitting as Crip
Introduction
“I saw at a glance that your case was exceptional, and that you also were Occult”
The Problems of Access
Stories from the Global Staffroom
Self-fashioning Queer/Crip
Paraplegic women’s emancipation along their vocational pathways
De la kinésithérapie à l’activité physique adaptée
Striving to live well with chronic neuropathic pain managed by a neuromodulation technology
Intersektionale Inklusion? Disability Studies und Kritische Migrationsforschung als Alternativen zu hegemonialer Wissensproduktion
Noor Einy Movie
Aesthetics of Pain, Fatigue, and Rest
Gothic Access
AccessibleYoga for whom? The non-performativity of accessibility and inclusion on Instagram
Micropolitics in Participatory Processes
Radical Democratic Care
“I can feel the rhythm, and it is somehow nice”
Engaging Creative and Arts-Based Research Approaches to Expand Equity, Advocacy, and Impact of Health and Disability Communication Research
Wellbeing for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Decisions, practices, and experiences of disclosure by academics with invisible disabilities at German universities
Making Room for the Solution
Daring to Taste
Affordances and spatial agency in psychopathology
Multigrade teaching and learning
Ableism in higher education
Academic staff members’ engagement in accessible higher education for students with disabilities
Powering my wheelchair through academia
Reading literature about disabled children and adolescents
Universal Design for the Workplace
Orchestration of Care
Disability, Race, and Immigration Intersectionality
Fitting and Misfitting in Higher Education
When chronicity meets cyclicity
Online qualitative research with disabled children and young people in Scotland
The algorithmic other
Body-Mapping the Affective Politics of Bariatric Surgery
Unraveling the ties that bind
Infertility, reproductive timing and ‘cure’ in families affected by Turner Syndrome
Not just the ramp
Digital identities – overcoming visual bias through virtual embodiment
Disabling organizational spaces
GenderLAB
The Extended Body
Participant Engagement, Epistemic Injustice, and Early‐Phase Implanted Neural Device Research
Vulnerability and empowerment of persons with albinism in Tara Sullivan’s Golden Boy
Out of Time
The libidinal law
Precarious Rhetorics
Interrogating nonsuicidal self-injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework
Quand les promesses biomédicales se dégonflent
The Ugly Laws
The Taming of Chance
Disability Theory
Staring How We Look
On doing “being ordinary”
Toward an anthropology of women.
Love’s Labor
Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Sexing the body
Reclaiming Identity
Behavior in Public Places
Black Feminist Thought
Exile and Pride
Bodies that Matter
The Human Condition
The Human Condition
The Vulnerable Subject
Cultural Locations of Disability
Extraordinary Bodies
Vulnerability and Human Rights
Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
Wounded Attachments
Gut Feminism
The Normal and the Pathological
Bodies That Matter
The Anatomy of Disgust
The Instability of the Analytical Categories of Feminist Theory
| Unique citing works | 376 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 26,86 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 363 |