Robert Mcruer
Biographic Data
| ID | 99797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Mcruer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcruer |
| SIGNATURE | MCRUER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Crip Apocalyptic Times, Cripqueer Rage
The past few years have been apocalyptic for disabled people, or for many who identify as crip or cripqueer, for innumerable reasons. Not only was the COVID-19 pandemic itself disabling or lethal to millions of people, but also in many locations able-bodied people defiantly resisted any call for social distancing or masking that would protect disabled, sick, or immunocompromised people. Crip examples of apocalyptic situations such as these could …
Cripistemologies Now (More than Ever!)
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary f…
Covid-19 Roundtable
DiGeSt 8(1) General Issue - COVID-19 Roundtable
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance
Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or “crip times.” Throughout Crip Times , McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture…
Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and Aspiration
Crip Resistance
Inhabitable Spaces: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente
Epilogue: Some (Disabled) Aspects of the Immigrant Question
An Austerity of Representation; or, Crip/Queer Horizons: Disability and Dispossession
Kaleki opór
G dzie na świecie
Capacidad corporal obligatoria y existencia discapacitada queer
Este texto fue originalmente publicado bajo el título de "Compulsory Able-bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence" en el volumen Disabling the Humanities editado por Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann y Rosemarie Garland-Thomson en el año 2002. En el texto, Robert McRuer propone una teoría de la capacidad corporal obligatoria apoyándose al tiempo en el trabajo de Adrienne Rich y en la teoría de la performatividad de Judith Butler cuestionand…
Promiscuous Relations. A review of Bruce Robbins, The Beneficiary
Promiscuous RelationsA review of Bruce Robbins, The Beneficiary Robert McRuer (bio) Robbins, Bruce. The Beneficiary, Duke University Press, 2017. Bruce Robbins opens The Beneficiary with a 1948 State Department memo written by George F. Kennan. The memo acknowledges a stark disparity between the United States and the rest of the world (the U.S. held 50% of the world's wealth but had little more than 6% of its population). Kennan encourages the de…
Curb Cuts: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente
Theorists of neoliberalism have placed dispossession and displacement at the centre of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these analyses. This essay attends to what might be comprehended as the crip echoes generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity politics. Centring on British-Mexican relations during a moment of austerity in the UK and gentr…
Proliferating Cripistemologies: A Virtual Roundtable
How might "cripistemologies" work? Without assuming in advance that we know what such ways of knowing might be, we have gathered in this roundtable a range of queer, trans, feminist, disability, and critical race theorists—namely, Lennard Davis, David Serlin, Emma Kivisild, Jennifer Nash, Jack Halberstam, Margaret Price, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Jasbir K. Puar, Susan Schweik, Jennifer James, Lisa Duggan, and Carrie Sandahl—to meditate collectiv…
The Then and There of Crip Futurity
Book Review| October 01 2014 The Then and There of Crip Futurity Feminist, Queer, Crip. Kafer, Alison. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xiii + 258 pp. Robert McRuer Robert McRuer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 532–534. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2721402 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Cripistemologies: Introduction
Sex and Disability
Afterword: The End of Contested Corporealities
As the title suggests, Tanya Titchkosky's article, which opens this special issue, is all about “The Ends of the Body.” More specifically, the article critiques the ways in which disability, in par
Crip Excess, Art, and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer
2012). Crip Excess, Art, and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 34, Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities, pp. 148-155
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Disabling Sex
This article attempts to "think disability" using the theoretical framework laid out by Gayle Rubin in her 1984 essay "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." After considering how Rubin's essay was already arguably engaged with a disability politics (or, more broadly, a politics of embodiment), it reads "Thinking Sex" alongside another 1984 text, Deborah A. Stone's book The Disabled State, arguing that Stone's tex…
Disability Nationalism in Crip Times
The article puts queer postcolonial and transnational theory in conversation with disability studies in order to reflect on what might be called, adapting Jasbir K. Puar, "disability nationalism in crip times." Surveying the ways that queer theory has analyzed gay identity and the heterosexual-homosexual binary in postcolonial and transnational contexts, the article considers some of the reasons why disability studies has not followed the same tr…
Comment from the Field: Reflections on Disability in Haiti
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck southern Haiti. It was centered just to the west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, and caused widespread destruction in and around the metropolitan area, where more than two million people were living. The numbers are staggering: more than 230,000 people died, and close to a million were left without homes. Many of those whose homes collapsed were relocated to camps or tent cities ou…
Crip Theory. Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Cripistemologies: Introduction
As Good as It Gets
Research Article| April 01 2003 AS GOOD AS IT GETS: Queer Theory and Critical Disability Robert McRuer Robert McRuer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 79-105. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-79 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert McRuer; AS GOOD AS IT GETS: Queer Theory and Critical Disability. GLQ 1 April 2003; 9 (1-2): 79-105…
Disabling Sex
This article attempts to "think disability" using the theoretical framework laid out by Gayle Rubin in her 1984 essay "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." After considering how Rubin's essay was already arguably engaged with a disability politics (or, more broadly, a politics of embodiment), it reads "Thinking Sex" alongside another 1984 text, Deborah A. Stone's book The Disabled State, arguing that Stone's tex…
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Crip Theory. Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Crip Excess, Art, and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer
2012). Crip Excess, Art, and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 34, Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities, pp. 148-155
We Were Never Identified: Feminism, Queer Theory, and a Disabled World
Capacidad corporal obligatoria y existencia discapacitada queer
Este texto fue originalmente publicado bajo el título de "Compulsory Able-bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence" en el volumen Disabling the Humanities editado por Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann y Rosemarie Garland-Thomson en el año 2002. En el texto, Robert McRuer propone una teoría de la capacidad corporal obligatoria apoyándose al tiempo en el trabajo de Adrienne Rich y en la teoría de la performatividad de Judith Butler cuestionand…
The Then and There of Crip Futurity
Book Review| October 01 2014 The Then and There of Crip Futurity Feminist, Queer, Crip. Kafer, Alison. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xiii + 258 pp. Robert McRuer Robert McRuer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 532–534. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2721402 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Disability and the Names Project
This essay considers how the AIDS quilt can function within the public historical record as a disability artifact; it connects contestations over the quilt to contestations over the meaning of disability in American cultures. Although the AIDS quilt is a very different artifact from others constructed during the Disability Rights Movement, the movement that generated the AIDS quilt has likewise been propelled by a commitment to more democratic fu…
A Visitation of Difference: Randall Kenan and Black Queer Theory
This essay is a consideration of the position of "region" in queer theory, particularly black queer theory. Although only minimal analysis has been directed at black gay cultural production, most attention given to black gay cultural production has focussed predominantly on urban areas/communities re-presented in films such as Tongues United and Paris Is Burning. This paper employs Randall Kenan's novel A Visitation of Spirits, which focusses on …
A Visitation of Difference: Randall Kenan and Black Queer Theory
This essay is a consideration of the position of "region" in queer theory, particularly black queer theory. Although only minimal analysis has been directed at black gay cultural production, most attention given to black gay cultural production has focussed predominantly on urban areas/communities re-presented in films such as Tongues United and Paris Is Burning. This paper employs Randall Kenan's novel A Visitation of Spirits, which focusses on …
Critical Investments: Aids, Christopher Reeve, and Queer/Disability Studies
As Good as It Gets
Research Article| April 01 2003 AS GOOD AS IT GETS: Queer Theory and Critical Disability Robert McRuer Robert McRuer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2003) 9 (1-2): 79-105. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9-1-2-79 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert McRuer; AS GOOD AS IT GETS: Queer Theory and Critical Disability. GLQ 1 April 2003; 9 (1-2): 79-105…
Disability and the Names Project
This essay considers how the AIDS quilt can function within the public historical record as a disability artifact; it connects contestations over the quilt to contestations over the meaning of disability in American cultures. Although the AIDS quilt is a very different artifact from others constructed during the Disability Rights Movement, the movement that generated the AIDS quilt has likewise been propelled by a commitment to more democratic fu…
We Were Never Identified: Feminism, Queer Theory, and a Disabled World
Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability
Foreword: Another Word Is Possible, by Michael Berube Acknowledgments Introduction: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence 1 Coming Out Crip: Malibu Is Burning 2 Capitalism and Disabled Identity: Sharon Kowalski, Interdependency, and Queer Domesticity 3 Noncompliance: The Transformation, Gary Fisher, and the Limits of Rehabilitation 4 Composing Queerness and Disability: The Corporate University and Alternative Corporealities 5 Cr…
Crip Theory. Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literatu…
Book Review| September 01 2008 Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Robert McRuer Robert McRuer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 624–626. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-029 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Per…
Disability Nationalism in Crip Times
The article puts queer postcolonial and transnational theory in conversation with disability studies in order to reflect on what might be called, adapting Jasbir K. Puar, "disability nationalism in crip times." Surveying the ways that queer theory has analyzed gay identity and the heterosexual-homosexual binary in postcolonial and transnational contexts, the article considers some of the reasons why disability studies has not followed the same tr…
Comment from the Field: Reflections on Disability in Haiti
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck southern Haiti. It was centered just to the west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, and caused widespread destruction in and around the metropolitan area, where more than two million people were living. The numbers are staggering: more than 230,000 people died, and close to a million were left without homes. Many of those whose homes collapsed were relocated to camps or tent cities ou…
Disabling Sex
This article attempts to "think disability" using the theoretical framework laid out by Gayle Rubin in her 1984 essay "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." After considering how Rubin's essay was already arguably engaged with a disability politics (or, more broadly, a politics of embodiment), it reads "Thinking Sex" alongside another 1984 text, Deborah A. Stone's book The Disabled State, arguing that Stone's tex…
Sex and Disability
Afterword: The End of Contested Corporealities
As the title suggests, Tanya Titchkosky's article, which opens this special issue, is all about “The Ends of the Body.” More specifically, the article critiques the ways in which disability, in par
Crip Excess, Art, and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer
2012). Crip Excess, Art, and Politics: A Conversation with Robert McRuer. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 34, Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities, pp. 148-155
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Proliferating Cripistemologies: A Virtual Roundtable
How might "cripistemologies" work? Without assuming in advance that we know what such ways of knowing might be, we have gathered in this roundtable a range of queer, trans, feminist, disability, and critical race theorists—namely, Lennard Davis, David Serlin, Emma Kivisild, Jennifer Nash, Jack Halberstam, Margaret Price, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Jasbir K. Puar, Susan Schweik, Jennifer James, Lisa Duggan, and Carrie Sandahl—to meditate collectiv…
The Then and There of Crip Futurity
Book Review| October 01 2014 The Then and There of Crip Futurity Feminist, Queer, Crip. Kafer, Alison. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xiii + 258 pp. Robert McRuer Robert McRuer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 532–534. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2721402 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Cripistemologies: Introduction
Curb Cuts: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente
Theorists of neoliberalism have placed dispossession and displacement at the centre of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these analyses. This essay attends to what might be comprehended as the crip echoes generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity politics. Centring on British-Mexican relations during a moment of austerity in the UK and gentr…
Promiscuous Relations. A review of Bruce Robbins, The Beneficiary
Promiscuous RelationsA review of Bruce Robbins, The Beneficiary Robert McRuer (bio) Robbins, Bruce. The Beneficiary, Duke University Press, 2017. Bruce Robbins opens The Beneficiary with a 1948 State Department memo written by George F. Kennan. The memo acknowledges a stark disparity between the United States and the rest of the world (the U.S. held 50% of the world's wealth but had little more than 6% of its population). Kennan encourages the de…
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance
Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or “crip times.” Throughout Crip Times , McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture…
Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and Aspiration
Crip Resistance
Inhabitable Spaces: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente
Epilogue: Some (Disabled) Aspects of the Immigrant Question
Sociology (17 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (10 works) · Queer (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Disability studies (7 works)