FEM 2104 Lecture 3: meg peters
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Ableism as the system that privileges the ablebodied: those that we imagine to have power. Disableism as the system that oppresses disabled people. The corporeal incarnation of culture"s collective, unmarked, normative characteristics (8): those who imagine/appear to be healthy. Disability is a personal affliction that can be cured through medical means: can be cured/ can be fixed. Shuttleworth: knowledge is not like a bank of info: it is collectively created and maintained through power, certain kinds of experiences are seen as worthy of knowledge creation. Cds is guided by unique interdisciplinarities and productive debates on a range of issues and solutions. What unites cds theorists is an agreement that disabled people are undervalued and discriminated against and this cannot be changed simply through liberal or neo-liberal legislation and policy (65: discrimination cannot be changed through this legislation alone. Indeed, the dialogue most often begins from a white, western perspective.
