Troubling narratives about dis/ability and the social encounter through conversations between narrative inquiry, critical disability studies, and geographies of disability
Journal article
Cockain, A. 2023. Troubling narratives about dis/ability and the social encounter through conversations between narrative inquiry, critical disability studies, and geographies of disability. Disability & Society.
Authors | Cockain, A. |
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Abstract | This article explores written narratives produced by two ‘abled’ people about a social encounter, or event, with a ‘disabled’ person in an inland Chinese city. To interpret these, I draw upon principles and approaches associated with narrative inquiry, critical disability studies and geographies of disability. I identify the structural elements, sequentiality, and themes (e.g. fear, pity and especially anxiety, or perplexity) permeating these narratives as well as their lack of resolution, or closure. Later, I situate these narratives within wider discursive contexts albeit while emphasising how perplexity emerges through a lack of identity, or rupture, between words and the world. These troubling and perplexing narratives register the fragility of symbolic systems and the troubled subject positions these enable/disable. Nevertheless, and crucially, these narratives also trouble the taken-for-grantedness of ostensibly stable abled/disabled categories, persons, and objects, in ways which may permit realisation of things outside reductive hierarchical binaries. |
Keywords | Dis/ability; Narrative (inquiry); Critical disability studies; Geographies of disability; Defrosting/perplexity; Non-identity thinking |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Disability & Society |
Publisher | Routledge |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 11 Oct 2023 |
Deposited | 25 Oct 2023 |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Restricted |
Output status | In press |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/9629q/troubling-narratives-about-dis-ability-and-the-social-encounter-through-conversations-between-narrative-inquiry-critical-disability-studies-and-geographies-of-disability
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