Yvonne Wechuli
Biographic Data
| ID | 246398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yvonne Wechuli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yvonne |
| FAMILY NAME | Wechuli |
| SIGNATURE | WECHULI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3397-4058 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Emotion work and feeling rules: Applications and open questions for Disability Research
The notions of emotion work or emotional labour are frequently employed in Disability Research to describe a disproportionate amount of interactive work that disabled people are expected to perform for others, yet its current application is found too unspecific. The article argues for terminological and conceptual refinements by distinguishing different forms of emotion work and reconstructing the underlying feeling rules. It is based on my disse…
Cripping auto-/ethnography
Given the crisis of representation (of the other ) and complicated histories of othering, ethnography seems to be a methodology in need of cripping. Autoethnography, then, is one approach to solve said crisis of representation. Down to classics like Robert Murphy's The Body Silent , Disability Studies often use authors' autobiographical experience in a way that may be called autoethnographic. However, Disability Study's authors rarely engage with…
Between abjection and fetishization. Challenges of writing about emotional othering in Disability Studies
This paper traces the challenges of writing about an emotional othering of disabled people - between abjection and fetishization. These challenges can firstly be characterized as conceptual challenges. To date, theory-building in Disability Studies about emotional reactions to disability has mainly relied on disabled scholars' ruminations on an emotional foundation for the discriminatory behaviour they experience. Further challenges arise within …
Passing as Able-Bodyminded, Disabled, or Supercrip: Rethinking Impression Management Strategies Through a Disability Lens
This paper further develops the interactionist notion of passing from a disability studies perspective. Drawing on central disability studies journals' archives in the course of a theoretical PhD project that explores disability studies' theorizing of emotions, passing emerged as one of several issues of emotional relevance in the context of disability-more specifically, as one among several strategic negotiations of feelings in a dis/ableist soc…
Medicalizing disabled people's emotions—Symptom of a dis/ableist society
The theoretical-conceptual article at hand explores how emotional discourses shape social relations by specifically focusing on the medicalization of disabled- and chronically ill-people's emotions. Medicalization is a concept from medical sociology that describes medicine's expansion into non-medical life areas, for instance into the realm of emotions, sometimes in order to challenge this expansion. The emotions of disabled people are often pres…
Between cripping and reclaiming: Epistemological implications of Disability Studies’ feeling strategies1
Disability Studies promote different feeling strategies by pushing for social change towards a more inclusive and less ableist society. There is a utopian touch to this: how can we change the world by feeling differently about disability? Disabled people have long discussed how to navigate the emotional toll of ableism. This article oscillates between two strategies that Disability Studies scholars and activists have advocated for: cripping – del…
Disability Studies
Living a feminist life
Sara Ahmed is known for her theoretical work on emotion, most notably for her monography The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Ahmed 2004) that was well received in Affect Studies and wider humanities
Medicalizing disabled people's emotions—Symptom of a dis/ableist society
The theoretical-conceptual article at hand explores how emotional discourses shape social relations by specifically focusing on the medicalization of disabled- and chronically ill-people's emotions. Medicalization is a concept from medical sociology that describes medicine's expansion into non-medical life areas, for instance into the realm of emotions, sometimes in order to challenge this expansion. The emotions of disabled people are often pres…
Passing as Able-Bodyminded, Disabled, or Supercrip: Rethinking Impression Management Strategies Through a Disability Lens
This paper further develops the interactionist notion of passing from a disability studies perspective. Drawing on central disability studies journals' archives in the course of a theoretical PhD project that explores disability studies' theorizing of emotions, passing emerged as one of several issues of emotional relevance in the context of disability-more specifically, as one among several strategic negotiations of feelings in a dis/ableist soc…
Between cripping and reclaiming: Epistemological implications of Disability Studies’ feeling strategies1
Disability Studies promote different feeling strategies by pushing for social change towards a more inclusive and less ableist society. There is a utopian touch to this: how can we change the world by feeling differently about disability? Disabled people have long discussed how to navigate the emotional toll of ableism. This article oscillates between two strategies that Disability Studies scholars and activists have advocated for: cripping – del…
Living a feminist life
Sara Ahmed is known for her theoretical work on emotion, most notably for her monography The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Ahmed 2004) that was well received in Affect Studies and wider humanities
Disability Studies
Between cripping and reclaiming: Epistemological implications of Disability Studies’ feeling strategies1
Disability Studies promote different feeling strategies by pushing for social change towards a more inclusive and less ableist society. There is a utopian touch to this: how can we change the world by feeling differently about disability? Disabled people have long discussed how to navigate the emotional toll of ableism. This article oscillates between two strategies that Disability Studies scholars and activists have advocated for: cripping – del…
Medicalizing disabled people's emotions—Symptom of a dis/ableist society
The theoretical-conceptual article at hand explores how emotional discourses shape social relations by specifically focusing on the medicalization of disabled- and chronically ill-people's emotions. Medicalization is a concept from medical sociology that describes medicine's expansion into non-medical life areas, for instance into the realm of emotions, sometimes in order to challenge this expansion. The emotions of disabled people are often pres…
Between abjection and fetishization. Challenges of writing about emotional othering in Disability Studies
This paper traces the challenges of writing about an emotional othering of disabled people - between abjection and fetishization. These challenges can firstly be characterized as conceptual challenges. To date, theory-building in Disability Studies about emotional reactions to disability has mainly relied on disabled scholars' ruminations on an emotional foundation for the discriminatory behaviour they experience. Further challenges arise within …
Passing as Able-Bodyminded, Disabled, or Supercrip: Rethinking Impression Management Strategies Through a Disability Lens
This paper further develops the interactionist notion of passing from a disability studies perspective. Drawing on central disability studies journals' archives in the course of a theoretical PhD project that explores disability studies' theorizing of emotions, passing emerged as one of several issues of emotional relevance in the context of disability-more specifically, as one among several strategic negotiations of feelings in a dis/ableist soc…
Cripping auto-/ethnography
Given the crisis of representation (of the other ) and complicated histories of othering, ethnography seems to be a methodology in need of cripping. Autoethnography, then, is one approach to solve said crisis of representation. Down to classics like Robert Murphy's The Body Silent , Disability Studies often use authors' autobiographical experience in a way that may be called autoethnographic. However, Disability Study's authors rarely engage with…
Emotion work and feeling rules: Applications and open questions for Disability Research
The notions of emotion work or emotional labour are frequently employed in Disability Research to describe a disproportionate amount of interactive work that disabled people are expected to perform for others, yet its current application is found too unspecific. The article argues for terminological and conceptual refinements by distinguishing different forms of emotion work and reconstructing the underlying feeling rules. It is based on my disse…
Sociology (6 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Feeling (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Disability studies (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works)