Grandpa Lives in Paradise Now

Biological Precarity and the Global Economy of Debility

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3947217
AutoresKateřina Kolářová (0000-0002-9864-2356, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume111
Fascículo1
Páginas75-87
Data de publicação2015-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.2015.45
OpenAlexW2399108222
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas23

This paper examines the relations and the tensions between debility and disability in global contexts defined by complex forms of bio-social precarity. My focus is Baan Kamlangchay, in Thailand, a care home providing care for older people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease from the global North. I treat Baan Kamlangchay as one concrete example of emerging circuits of transnational care/reproductive labour in order to investigate the interrelations between disability and wider global bio-political inequalities. Using the concept of 'biolegitimacy', I discuss the power dynamics in the relationships between the racialised and gendered care workers in the centre and (white) disabled residents. I argue that debility, understood as the flexible gradation of dis/ability and in/capacity, allows us to better understand these novel forms of embodied precarity and their political implications in global contexts

Debility · Globalization · Governmentality · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine