Unpacking intoxication, racialising disability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12692306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mel Y Chen (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-29 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/medhum-2014-010648 |
| PMID | 26052116 |
| OpenAlex | W2325130986 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article examines concepts whose strictly medical applications have only partly informed their widespread use and suggests that demonstrably shared logics motivate our thinking across domains in the interest of a politically just engagement. It considers exchanges between the culturally complex concepts of 'toxicity' and 'intoxication', assessing the racialised conditions of their animation in several geopolitically--and quite radically--distinct scenarios. First, the article sets the framework through considering the racial implications of impairment and disability language of 'non-toxic' finance capital in the contemporary US financial crisis. Shifting material foci from 'illiquid financial bodies' to opiates while insisting that neither is 'more' metaphorically toxic than the other, the article turns to address the role of opium and temporality in the interanimations of race and disability in two sites of 19th-century British empire: Langdon Down's clinic for idiocy, and China's retort on opium to Queen Victoria. The article concludes with a provocation that suggests yet another crossing of borders, that between researcher and researched: 'intoxicated method' is a hypothetical mode of approach that refuses idealised research positions by 'critically disabling' the idealised cognitive and conceptual lens of analysis
Capital (architecture · Linguistics · Opium · Political science · Sociology · Unpacking · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement
Introduction
In the “Fissures of Infrastructure”
Environmental racialisation and poetics of influence in the postgenomic era
Three television narratives of prenatal testing technologies and disability
Intoxicated method, thinking in difference
Ecologies of Entanglement in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Claiming normal
On the Inertia of Appetite
Desegregation and the retreat of clinical psychoanalysis
Toward Crip Ecologies
Crip Notes on the Idea of Development
Toxic Encounters, Settler Logics of Elimination, and the Future of a Continent
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures
Viral ecologies
Reparative Reading and the Drug Wars' Queer Children
You Make Me Feel Right Quare
| Citations per year | 1.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |