The Atlas of Our Skin and Bone and Blood”
Disability, Ablenationalism, and the War on Drugs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13081475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea J Pitts (0000-0002-6880-860X, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 62-62 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Genealogy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2313-5778 • E-ISSN: 2313-5778 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/genealogy3040062 |
| OpenAlex | W2983103133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
This paper explores the relationship between disability and the aspirational health of the civic body through an analysis of the criminalization of immigration and the war on drugs. In particular, this paper utilizes tools from transnational disability studies to examine the formation and maintenance of a form of ablenationalism operating within immigration reform and drug-related policies. Specifically, the militarization of border zones, as well as the vast austerity measures impacting people across North, Central, and South America have shaped notions of public health, safety, and security according to racial, gendered, and settler logics of futurity. The final section of the paper turns to three authors who have been situated in various ways on the margins of the United States, Gloria Anzaldúa (the Mexico-U.S. border), Aurora Levins Morales (Puerto Rico), and Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache). As such, this article analyzes the liberatory, affective, and future-oriented dimensions of disabled life and experience to chart possibilities for resistance to the converging momentum of carceral settler states, transnational healthcare networks, and racial capitalism
Austerity · Capitalism · Criminalization · Criminology · Immigration · Militarization · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma
Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in the Americas Today
Disability and Difference in Global Contexts
The School of the Americas
Occupying Disability
Nationalism and Sexuality
Body and Soul
Crip Theory
Drugs and Democracy in Latin America
The World of Indigenous North America
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Punishing the Poor
In the Name of Womens Rights
The Condemnation of Blackness
Terrorist Assemblages
"Todos Somos Indios!" Revolutionary Imagination, Alternative Modernity, and Transnational Organizing in the Work of Silko, Tamez, and Anzaldúa
Foreign Intervention, Police Militarization, and Minorities
Alien” Sexuality
The War on Drugs That Wasn’t
What's so 'critical' about critical disability studies
Bodyminds Reimagined
The Right to Maim
Impossible Criminals
Blue Blackness, Black Blueness
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |