Disability studies is a scholarly movement that engages with interdisciplinary insights into the construction(s) of disability and ableist-normativity and what these dividing practices means for social policy, social care, legal regimes and biopolitics more generally. Precariousness ‘implies living socially, that is, the fact that one’s life is always in some sense in the hands of the other. It implies exposure both to those we know and to those we do not know; a dependency on people we know or know not at all’ (Butler, 2009, 14).
Precariousness can be a significant measure of the efficacy of social policy and law. This seminar series will bring together researchers whose work focuses on the marginal, the aberrant, disabled people, displaced persons and the trans/categorically ‘othered’ to explore austerus, those ‘dry, harsh and sour’ landscapes of thinking about difference, variability and the increasing (re)turn to classifying populations creating inside and outwith zones of belonging and exclusion.
Vajira Gunawardena. CRISIS OF HEGEMONY – I, Oil bar, Acrylic and oil on canvas, [email protected]. https://www.saatchiart.com/dias
Programme
12.00 Welcome/Chair by Dr Fiona Kumari Campbell (seminar coordinator, Co-convenor Displaces)]
12.15 Professor Marianne Hirschberg
1.45 Dr Maria Norstedt
2.15 Dr Elisabet Apelmo
2.45 Q & A (audience & between panel)
3.05 Closing remarks, Dr Murray K Simpson (Displaces co-convenor)
3.15 Finish