The excessive appearance of disability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12215259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rod Michalko (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-74 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09518390802581885 |
| OpenAlex | W2071495456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper engages the appearance of disability in contemporary Western culture. Rather than taking disability for granted as a biomedical condition, I interrogate how disability is made to appear in our culture, including its appearance as a biomedical condition. Fundamentally, disability appears to us as a trouble and, as such, cultural practices steeped in a medical paradigm are invoked as a way to rid ourselves of the trouble of disability. This trouble is transformed into the cultural requirement of making disability disappear into the normative order through conceiving of disability as a conditional feature of human life. This paper concludes by theorizing disability as excess, as too much and not enough. I demonstrate how such a conception of disability permits its normalization while disallowing any engagement with it as having anything to teach us about the social process of norming
Developmental psychology · Disability studies · Epistemology · Inclusion (mineral · Learning disability · Medical model of disability · Normalization (sociology · Normative · Physical disability · Psychiatry · Social model of disability · Social science · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Disability Rights and Representation · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Intellectual Disability Trouble
Self-Advocacy as Precariousness in University Education
Fear and Othering in the inclusive early childhood classroom
Negotiating access and belonging in a higher education institution
The Dis/appearing Sporting Body
Implicit beliefs of disability and elite sport
The fetish of the lens
Untangling ideologies of disablement
Re-visioning disability and dyslexia down the camera lens
How He Got His Scars
Support as a double-edged sword
Go figure! Public pedagogies, invisible impairments and the performative paradoxes of visibility as veracity
It's actually very normal that I'm different’. How physically disabled youth discursively construct and position their body/self
It doesn't feel like our house anymore’
Disruptive, dangerous and disturbing
Learning how to be (a) patient
Beyond biomedicine
Marking-out normalcy and disability in higher education
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |