Kay Inckle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 302873 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kay Inckle |
| PRENOMES | Kay |
| SOBRENOME | Inckle |
| ASSINATURA | INCKLE K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9071-1396 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Who is “Us” in “Nothing About Us Without US”? Rethinking the Politics of Disability Research
No abstract available
‘I am proud of my back’
Little is known about why disabled athletes choose to modify their bodies and the meanings that these modifications have for them. Drawing on data from a larger 4-year ethnographic study, we focus on the motivations and meanings of five athletes who had become disabled due to spinal cord injury (SCI) for tattooing their bodies in specific ways. Our analysis illuminates the following key themes as being significant in the body modification choices…
Inequality, distress and harm-reduction
Poetry in motion
In this article, I present three I-poems from a larger research project in which I explore the health, identity and social impacts of cycling for people with physical disabilities. I used I-poems as a means of kick-starting an in-depth, multi-perspective engagement with my interview transcripts after struggling to formulate insightful and productive thematic analysis. For me, this research project is something of a departure from my normal resear…
‘It’s a part of me’
In much research dealing with sport technologies and the process of cyborgification there is a significant lack of attention given to the experiences of athletes themselves. This is particularly so for disabled athletes. Against this backdrop of neglect, we draw on data generated from a 4-year ethnographic study that explored the experiences and meanings of disability sport for those who became involved in it following a spinal cord injury, and h…
Unreasonable adjustments
Two recent contributions to this section have drawn attention to the barriers which academics with disabilities have to navigate in academia where ableism "is endemic" (Brown and Leigh, Citation2018: 4). Hannam-Swain (Citation2018) highlighted the additional intellectual, emotional and physical labour required of her as a disabled PhD student, and Brown and Leigh (Citation2018) queried "where are all the disabled and ill academics?" However, Brow…
Imperfect Perfection and Wheelchair Bodybuilding
This article explores the impact of the binary configuration of disabled bodies as opposite and unequal to able bodies, and whether or not contemporary bodybuilding provides a space where this dualism can be overcome. Drawing on life history interviews with Dan, a professional wheelchair bodybuilder, we consider how his hyper-muscular upper body may position him as a supercrip and thereby reinforce bodily and gender norms. Simultaneously, Dan's p…
Debilitating Times
In this paper I take up a critical position in regard to the theme of debility around which this collection is framed. I argue that theorisations of 'debility' do little to progress theory and policy in regard to disability and share many of the problems inherent to the social model. I also suggest that the theorisation of debility is rooted in and reinforces ablebodied privilege. I begin with a critical analysis of the social model of disability…
Promises, Promises
This paper draws on two social research projects which have made headline news in the Republic of Ireland since 2011: The Belfast Project which was conducted by ex-paramilitary researchers in Northern Ireland in conjunction with Boston College in the USA, alongside what the media dubbed as 'The Rape Tape' case involving a postgraduate student from Maynooth University in the Republic of Ireland. Considered together, these cases highlight contrasti…
Strong and Silent
Self-injury is commonly reported to be primarily a female experience and rare among males. However, contemporary research suggests that this may not be the case and that male self-injury may be equally common but less recognized. I suggest that the invisibility of male self-injury results from the structures of normative gender that define 'mental illness,' vulnerability, and distress behaviors through traditional masculinity and femininity. Thes…
A lame argument
In this paper I explore how disabled embodiment offers radical theory and practice for gender politics. I use Adrienne Rich’s classic treaties ‘lesbian existence [and] the lesbian continuum’ and Judith Butler’s twenty-first-century queer interrogation of ‘the category of The Human’ to highlight the exclusion of disablement from gender politics despite its radical potential for theory and praxis. Using a crip ethos I not only explore the consequen…
Scarred for Life
A recent advertising campaign for a product named Bio-Oil promises to restore women's ‘natural’ (that is, hetero) femininity – their attractiveness, desirability and self-confidence – through eradicating scars which are posited as detrimental to a fully functioning life as a woman. In this paper I draw on my research with three women who experience stigmatised embodiment as a result of the scars of self-injury alongside my own experience of (prim…
Telling tales? Using ethnographic fictions to speak embodied 'truth
This article traces my journey into embodied methodologies as I endeavoured to accurately and ethically research and represent experiences of body-marking practices (i.e. body modification and self-injury). Because of the fundamentally embodied nature of body-marking, I sought methodologies which were equally embodied and able to contain and represent the complex, emotive, fluid and dynamic nature of these experiences. It was also essential to me…
Carved in Flesh
This paper opens up questions regarding the ways in which reading the body leads to limited and limiting notions of identity. These questions are based around a critique of an ethnography of lesbian body-modification which I problematize in a number of ways. I suggest that reading the body of another is both methodologically and politically problematic. I reflect on how this approach confuses the complexity of body and identity and the ways in wh…
Telling tales? Using ethnographic fictions to speak embodied 'truth
This article traces my journey into embodied methodologies as I endeavoured to accurately and ethically research and represent experiences of body-marking practices (i.e. body modification and self-injury). Because of the fundamentally embodied nature of body-marking, I sought methodologies which were equally embodied and able to contain and represent the complex, emotive, fluid and dynamic nature of these experiences. It was also essential to me…
Unreasonable adjustments
Two recent contributions to this section have drawn attention to the barriers which academics with disabilities have to navigate in academia where ableism "is endemic" (Brown and Leigh, Citation2018: 4). Hannam-Swain (Citation2018) highlighted the additional intellectual, emotional and physical labour required of her as a disabled PhD student, and Brown and Leigh (Citation2018) queried "where are all the disabled and ill academics?" However, Brow…
Debilitating Times
In this paper I take up a critical position in regard to the theme of debility around which this collection is framed. I argue that theorisations of 'debility' do little to progress theory and policy in regard to disability and share many of the problems inherent to the social model. I also suggest that the theorisation of debility is rooted in and reinforces ablebodied privilege. I begin with a critical analysis of the social model of disability…
A lame argument
In this paper I explore how disabled embodiment offers radical theory and practice for gender politics. I use Adrienne Rich’s classic treaties ‘lesbian existence [and] the lesbian continuum’ and Judith Butler’s twenty-first-century queer interrogation of ‘the category of The Human’ to highlight the exclusion of disablement from gender politics despite its radical potential for theory and praxis. Using a crip ethos I not only explore the consequen…
Inequality, distress and harm-reduction
Poetry in motion
In this article, I present three I-poems from a larger research project in which I explore the health, identity and social impacts of cycling for people with physical disabilities. I used I-poems as a means of kick-starting an in-depth, multi-perspective engagement with my interview transcripts after struggling to formulate insightful and productive thematic analysis. For me, this research project is something of a departure from my normal resear…
Imperfect Perfection and Wheelchair Bodybuilding
This article explores the impact of the binary configuration of disabled bodies as opposite and unequal to able bodies, and whether or not contemporary bodybuilding provides a space where this dualism can be overcome. Drawing on life history interviews with Dan, a professional wheelchair bodybuilder, we consider how his hyper-muscular upper body may position him as a supercrip and thereby reinforce bodily and gender norms. Simultaneously, Dan's p…
Strong and Silent
Self-injury is commonly reported to be primarily a female experience and rare among males. However, contemporary research suggests that this may not be the case and that male self-injury may be equally common but less recognized. I suggest that the invisibility of male self-injury results from the structures of normative gender that define 'mental illness,' vulnerability, and distress behaviors through traditional masculinity and femininity. Thes…
Promises, Promises
This paper draws on two social research projects which have made headline news in the Republic of Ireland since 2011: The Belfast Project which was conducted by ex-paramilitary researchers in Northern Ireland in conjunction with Boston College in the USA, alongside what the media dubbed as 'The Rape Tape' case involving a postgraduate student from Maynooth University in the Republic of Ireland. Considered together, these cases highlight contrasti…
Carved in Flesh
This paper opens up questions regarding the ways in which reading the body leads to limited and limiting notions of identity. These questions are based around a critique of an ethnography of lesbian body-modification which I problematize in a number of ways. I suggest that reading the body of another is both methodologically and politically problematic. I reflect on how this approach confuses the complexity of body and identity and the ways in wh…
Telling tales? Using ethnographic fictions to speak embodied 'truth
This article traces my journey into embodied methodologies as I endeavoured to accurately and ethically research and represent experiences of body-marking practices (i.e. body modification and self-injury). Because of the fundamentally embodied nature of body-marking, I sought methodologies which were equally embodied and able to contain and represent the complex, emotive, fluid and dynamic nature of these experiences. It was also essential to me…
Scarred for Life
A recent advertising campaign for a product named Bio-Oil promises to restore women's ‘natural’ (that is, hetero) femininity – their attractiveness, desirability and self-confidence – through eradicating scars which are posited as detrimental to a fully functioning life as a woman. In this paper I draw on my research with three women who experience stigmatised embodiment as a result of the scars of self-injury alongside my own experience of (prim…
A lame argument
In this paper I explore how disabled embodiment offers radical theory and practice for gender politics. I use Adrienne Rich’s classic treaties ‘lesbian existence [and] the lesbian continuum’ and Judith Butler’s twenty-first-century queer interrogation of ‘the category of The Human’ to highlight the exclusion of disablement from gender politics despite its radical potential for theory and praxis. Using a crip ethos I not only explore the consequen…
Strong and Silent
Self-injury is commonly reported to be primarily a female experience and rare among males. However, contemporary research suggests that this may not be the case and that male self-injury may be equally common but less recognized. I suggest that the invisibility of male self-injury results from the structures of normative gender that define 'mental illness,' vulnerability, and distress behaviors through traditional masculinity and femininity. Thes…
Debilitating Times
In this paper I take up a critical position in regard to the theme of debility around which this collection is framed. I argue that theorisations of 'debility' do little to progress theory and policy in regard to disability and share many of the problems inherent to the social model. I also suggest that the theorisation of debility is rooted in and reinforces ablebodied privilege. I begin with a critical analysis of the social model of disability…
Promises, Promises
This paper draws on two social research projects which have made headline news in the Republic of Ireland since 2011: The Belfast Project which was conducted by ex-paramilitary researchers in Northern Ireland in conjunction with Boston College in the USA, alongside what the media dubbed as 'The Rape Tape' case involving a postgraduate student from Maynooth University in the Republic of Ireland. Considered together, these cases highlight contrasti…
‘It’s a part of me’
In much research dealing with sport technologies and the process of cyborgification there is a significant lack of attention given to the experiences of athletes themselves. This is particularly so for disabled athletes. Against this backdrop of neglect, we draw on data generated from a 4-year ethnographic study that explored the experiences and meanings of disability sport for those who became involved in it following a spinal cord injury, and h…
Unreasonable adjustments
Two recent contributions to this section have drawn attention to the barriers which academics with disabilities have to navigate in academia where ableism "is endemic" (Brown and Leigh, Citation2018: 4). Hannam-Swain (Citation2018) highlighted the additional intellectual, emotional and physical labour required of her as a disabled PhD student, and Brown and Leigh (Citation2018) queried "where are all the disabled and ill academics?" However, Brow…
Imperfect Perfection and Wheelchair Bodybuilding
This article explores the impact of the binary configuration of disabled bodies as opposite and unequal to able bodies, and whether or not contemporary bodybuilding provides a space where this dualism can be overcome. Drawing on life history interviews with Dan, a professional wheelchair bodybuilder, we consider how his hyper-muscular upper body may position him as a supercrip and thereby reinforce bodily and gender norms. Simultaneously, Dan's p…
Inequality, distress and harm-reduction
Poetry in motion
In this article, I present three I-poems from a larger research project in which I explore the health, identity and social impacts of cycling for people with physical disabilities. I used I-poems as a means of kick-starting an in-depth, multi-perspective engagement with my interview transcripts after struggling to formulate insightful and productive thematic analysis. For me, this research project is something of a departure from my normal resear…
‘I am proud of my back’
Little is known about why disabled athletes choose to modify their bodies and the meanings that these modifications have for them. Drawing on data from a larger 4-year ethnographic study, we focus on the motivations and meanings of five athletes who had become disabled due to spinal cord injury (SCI) for tattooing their bodies in specific ways. Our analysis illuminates the following key themes as being significant in the body modification choices…
Who is “Us” in “Nothing About Us Without US”? Rethinking the Politics of Disability Research
No abstract available
Sociology (14 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 obras)