Disabling practices

  • Following Foucault’s theory of discourse this article aims at reformulating the established concept of disability. To this end, the author reconstructs ways in which disabling practices of subjectivation occur in and through public media discourses. The article focuses on the discoursive production of infantile identities in people with cognitive disabilities. The examples demonstrate that this discoursive production occurs in self-representational media formats and in outside media representations. Hence, the author develops a concept of disability as a discoursively produced ordering category, from which follows a reformulation of the disability concept. This reformulated concept, which grasps disability as discourse disability, allows in turn for a perspective on disability as practice and thus as independent from the subject. To conclude, the article discusses implications of such a perspective of disability for pedagogy and the social sciences, ultimately arguing for a broader definition of disability and for making respective benefits a matter of social pedagogy.

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Author:Hendrik Trescher
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-442570
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2017.1328771
ISSN:2331-1886
Parent Title (German):Cogent social sciences
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2017
Date of first Publication:2017/05/13
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2017/05/31
Tag:Foucault; SNE; disability; disability studies; discourse; media
Volume:3
Issue:1328771
Page Number:13
Note:
© 2017 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
HeBIS-PPN:427940648
Institutes:Erziehungswissenschaften / Erziehungswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0