This is a chapter concerned with disability politics, interested in the possible offerings of critical psychology and engaged with a project questioning what it means to be a human being. When disability is defined as a problem and when that problem is located in an individual’s body or mind then there is only really one way we can go with disability: and that is pathologisation. We know from our critical psychology colleagues—many of whom are represented in this volume of work—that a discipline that individualises human diversity as human trouble will only ever exist as an antithetical community to that of disability activism. The latter, a community in which we locate ourselves, seeks not only to challenge pathologising accounts of disability but also to open up a discussion about the possibilities for human capital offered by disability.

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Critical Disability Studies

  • Dan Goodley,
  • Rebecca Lawthom,
  • Kirsty Liddiard,
  • Katherine Runswick Cole

摘要

This is a chapter concerned with disability politics, interested in the possible offerings of critical psychology and engaged with a project questioning what it means to be a human being. When disability is defined as a problem and when that problem is located in an individual’s body or mind then there is only really one way we can go with disability: and that is pathologisation. We know from our critical psychology colleagues—many of whom are represented in this volume of work—that a discipline that individualises human diversity as human trouble will only ever exist as an antithetical community to that of disability activism. The latter, a community in which we locate ourselves, seeks not only to challenge pathologising accounts of disability but also to open up a discussion about the possibilities for human capital offered by disability.