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. 40 (1), pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275523
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 |
Journal citation | 40 (1), pp. 1-20 |
Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
ISSN | 0968-7599 |
1360-0508 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275523 |
Official URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2023.2275523 |
Funder | Research Grants Council General Research Fund Hong Kong |
Publication dates | |
Online | 06 Nov 2023 |
02 Jan 2025 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 21 Dec 2023 |
Accepted | 11 Oct 2023 |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Restricted |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Additional information | Publications router: Date 2023-10-11 of type 'accepted_date' included in notification. |
Publications router: License for VOR version of this article starting on 2023-11-06: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ included in notification | |
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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