Amber Knight
Biographic Data
| ID | 4407131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amber Knight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amber |
| FAMILY NAME | Knight |
| SIGNATURE | KNIGHT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Science advising and democracy
Policymakers often consult university scientists as they design and administer policies to address issues facing contemporary democracies, including climate change and global pandemics. Subsequently, democratic theorists have become interested in how science advising generates both challenges and opportunities for democratic governance. As a work of applied political theory, this article contributes to current debates over the political implicati…
Worlds Worth Living In
Gene Editing Technologies, Utopianism, and Disability Politics
Scholars have long speculated about what a future affected by gene editing technologies might hold. This article enters current debates over the future of gene editing and the place of disability within it. Specifically, I evaluate contemporary utopian thinking about gene editing found in two different schools of thought: transhumanism and critical disability studies, ultimately judging the latter to be richer and more politically promising than …
Prenatal Genetic Screening, Epistemic Justice, and Reproductive Autonomy
Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) promises to enhance women's reproductive autonomy by providing genetic information about the fetus, especially in the detection of genetic impairments like Down syndrome (DS). In practice, however, NIPT provides opportunities for intensified manipulation and control over women's reproductive decisions. Applying Miranda Fricker's concept of epistemic injustice to prenatal screening, this article analyzes how med…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Disability, and the Injustice of Misrecognition
This article makes the case that the normative aspirations of recognition politics are worth pursuing as a dimension of disability politics— although the tactics need to be revised— through an interpretation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Specifically, I read Frankenstein's Creature as a visibly disabled subject, as someone who is misrecognized and mistreated due to his body's physical features, in order to analyze the tragedy of the novel: how …
Unfinished business
Deinstitutionalization heavily implicates Medicaid policy since waivers for home and community-based services have provided the means to realize the community integration mandate of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) and the Supreme Court’s Olmstead (1999) decision. Despite tremendous advances toward community living, several components of Medicaid’s design and implementation continue to create barriers for people with disabilities who wa…
Disabling ideal theory
This article offers a critique of ideal theory from the perspective of disability. Specifically, I make the case that John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin’s idealized writings on disability incorporate ableist assumptions into their abstract thought experiments. In turn, their theoretical frameworks do not adequately identify and analyze the causes of disability-related injustices, nor do they offer sufficient guidance for addressing urgent problems fac…
Disability and the meaning of reproductive liberty
This article brings together three literatures: political theories of liberty, feminist theories on reproductive rights, and the disability studies literature on ableism. I engage with these debates to consider the meaning of a core political concept – liberty – by examining women with disabilities’ reproductive experiences and interests. In light of the dynamics of gender inequality and ableism, I seek to problematize the notion that reproductiv…
Democratizing Disability
More than two decades after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), people with disabilities continue to live at the margins of American democracy and capitalist society. This persistent exclusion poses a conundrum to political theorists committed to disability rights, multiculturalism, and social justice. Drawing from feminist insights, specifically the work of Nancy Fraser, among others, I examine the necessary conditions for…
Disability as Vulnerability
This article examines how political appeals to a shared human vulnerability could potentially deconstruct the able/disabled binary that continues to exist in the case of disability. The notion of vulnerability is important because it moves us beyond thinking about disability as a discrimination issue and approaches it as a shared matter of political planning and public welfare. To begin, I adjudicate between competing conceptions of vulnerability…
Disability as Vulnerability
This article examines how political appeals to a shared human vulnerability could potentially deconstruct the able/disabled binary that continues to exist in the case of disability. The notion of vulnerability is important because it moves us beyond thinking about disability as a discrimination issue and approaches it as a shared matter of political planning and public welfare. To begin, I adjudicate between competing conceptions of vulnerability…
Democratizing Disability
More than two decades after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), people with disabilities continue to live at the margins of American democracy and capitalist society. This persistent exclusion poses a conundrum to political theorists committed to disability rights, multiculturalism, and social justice. Drawing from feminist insights, specifically the work of Nancy Fraser, among others, I examine the necessary conditions for…
Prenatal Genetic Screening, Epistemic Justice, and Reproductive Autonomy
Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) promises to enhance women's reproductive autonomy by providing genetic information about the fetus, especially in the detection of genetic impairments like Down syndrome (DS). In practice, however, NIPT provides opportunities for intensified manipulation and control over women's reproductive decisions. Applying Miranda Fricker's concept of epistemic injustice to prenatal screening, this article analyzes how med…
Disability and the meaning of reproductive liberty
This article brings together three literatures: political theories of liberty, feminist theories on reproductive rights, and the disability studies literature on ableism. I engage with these debates to consider the meaning of a core political concept – liberty – by examining women with disabilities’ reproductive experiences and interests. In light of the dynamics of gender inequality and ableism, I seek to problematize the notion that reproductiv…
Democratizing Disability
More than two decades after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), people with disabilities continue to live at the margins of American democracy and capitalist society. This persistent exclusion poses a conundrum to political theorists committed to disability rights, multiculturalism, and social justice. Drawing from feminist insights, specifically the work of Nancy Fraser, among others, I examine the necessary conditions for…
Disability as Vulnerability
This article examines how political appeals to a shared human vulnerability could potentially deconstruct the able/disabled binary that continues to exist in the case of disability. The notion of vulnerability is important because it moves us beyond thinking about disability as a discrimination issue and approaches it as a shared matter of political planning and public welfare. To begin, I adjudicate between competing conceptions of vulnerability…
Disability and the meaning of reproductive liberty
This article brings together three literatures: political theories of liberty, feminist theories on reproductive rights, and the disability studies literature on ableism. I engage with these debates to consider the meaning of a core political concept – liberty – by examining women with disabilities’ reproductive experiences and interests. In light of the dynamics of gender inequality and ableism, I seek to problematize the notion that reproductiv…
Disabling ideal theory
This article offers a critique of ideal theory from the perspective of disability. Specifically, I make the case that John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin’s idealized writings on disability incorporate ableist assumptions into their abstract thought experiments. In turn, their theoretical frameworks do not adequately identify and analyze the causes of disability-related injustices, nor do they offer sufficient guidance for addressing urgent problems fac…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Disability, and the Injustice of Misrecognition
This article makes the case that the normative aspirations of recognition politics are worth pursuing as a dimension of disability politics— although the tactics need to be revised— through an interpretation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Specifically, I read Frankenstein's Creature as a visibly disabled subject, as someone who is misrecognized and mistreated due to his body's physical features, in order to analyze the tragedy of the novel: how …
Unfinished business
Deinstitutionalization heavily implicates Medicaid policy since waivers for home and community-based services have provided the means to realize the community integration mandate of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) and the Supreme Court’s Olmstead (1999) decision. Despite tremendous advances toward community living, several components of Medicaid’s design and implementation continue to create barriers for people with disabilities who wa…
Prenatal Genetic Screening, Epistemic Justice, and Reproductive Autonomy
Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) promises to enhance women's reproductive autonomy by providing genetic information about the fetus, especially in the detection of genetic impairments like Down syndrome (DS). In practice, however, NIPT provides opportunities for intensified manipulation and control over women's reproductive decisions. Applying Miranda Fricker's concept of epistemic injustice to prenatal screening, this article analyzes how med…
Gene Editing Technologies, Utopianism, and Disability Politics
Scholars have long speculated about what a future affected by gene editing technologies might hold. This article enters current debates over the future of gene editing and the place of disability within it. Specifically, I evaluate contemporary utopian thinking about gene editing found in two different schools of thought: transhumanism and critical disability studies, ultimately judging the latter to be richer and more politically promising than …
Worlds Worth Living In
Science advising and democracy
Policymakers often consult university scientists as they design and administer policies to address issues facing contemporary democracies, including climate change and global pandemics. Subsequently, democratic theorists have become interested in how science advising generates both challenges and opportunities for democratic governance. As a work of applied political theory, this article contributes to current debates over the political implicati…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Disability studies (3 works)