James Overboe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1357072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Overboe |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Overboe |
| SIGNATURE | OVERBOE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Affirming an Impersonal Life
A fundamental tenet of the disability movement continues to be the validation of one's own identity and politics based on various disabilities: sensory, psychiatric, developmental, environmental, and physical (or any combination of the aforementioned). Underlying this politics of identity is the self-reflexive individual. Giorgio Agamben has argued that Gilles Deleuze moves the discussion to a different register, that of the impersonal life (with…
Introduction
Deleuzoguattarian thought occupies strange and marginal spaces in Disability Studies literature. While some scholars find great depth and richness in work that de-naturalizes language and bodily experience, some find it too far removed from everyday life. But in this issue there are only a few notes about the historical relationship between Disability Studies as a discipline and Deleuzoguattarian thoughts and practices, even though the contributo…
Disability and Genetics
Narrating the Unspeakable
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby, recounts the author's experience of "locked-in syndrome" (LIS) following a massive stroke in December 1995. 1 This book has achieved exceptional success: translated from French into twenty-three languages, it sold over a million copies in a remarkably short time. Its popularity may be attributed in part to the author's high profile as editor of the French version of Elle magazine and to …
Difference in Itself
I argue that the lived experience of disabled people should be validated instead of a facile categorization. Thus far, a disabled sensibility is reduced to a categorical interpretation. Through my examination of a theoretical performance I illustrate how a disabled/able persona negates a disabled sensibility and allows an audience to experience the exotic disabled without examining their own `ableism'. Sobchack's and Clark's examinations demonstr…
Difference in Itself
I argue that the lived experience of disabled people should be validated instead of a facile categorization. Thus far, a disabled sensibility is reduced to a categorical interpretation. Through my examination of a theoretical performance I illustrate how a disabled/able persona negates a disabled sensibility and allows an audience to experience the exotic disabled without examining their own `ableism'. Sobchack's and Clark's examinations demonstr…
Disability and Genetics
Difference in Itself
I argue that the lived experience of disabled people should be validated instead of a facile categorization. Thus far, a disabled sensibility is reduced to a categorical interpretation. Through my examination of a theoretical performance I illustrate how a disabled/able persona negates a disabled sensibility and allows an audience to experience the exotic disabled without examining their own `ableism'. Sobchack's and Clark's examinations demonstr…
Narrating the Unspeakable
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby, recounts the author's experience of "locked-in syndrome" (LIS) following a massive stroke in December 1995. 1 This book has achieved exceptional success: translated from French into twenty-three languages, it sold over a million copies in a remarkably short time. Its popularity may be attributed in part to the author's high profile as editor of the French version of Elle magazine and to …
Disability and Genetics
Affirming an Impersonal Life
A fundamental tenet of the disability movement continues to be the validation of one's own identity and politics based on various disabilities: sensory, psychiatric, developmental, environmental, and physical (or any combination of the aforementioned). Underlying this politics of identity is the self-reflexive individual. Giorgio Agamben has argued that Gilles Deleuze moves the discussion to a different register, that of the impersonal life (with…
Introduction
Deleuzoguattarian thought occupies strange and marginal spaces in Disability Studies literature. While some scholars find great depth and richness in work that de-naturalizes language and bodily experience, some find it too far removed from everyday life. But in this issue there are only a few notes about the historical relationship between Disability Studies as a discipline and Deleuzoguattarian thoughts and practices, even though the contributo…
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