Fiona Kumari Campbell
J.P. (Qual); Cert RHD Super; Adv Dip Theol; BLS (Hons); PhD; FRSA
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-2963
Professional Biography:
A Professor in philosophy, sociology, jurisprudence and theology (Jewish and Buddhist).Fiona Kumari Campbell has had a long standing interest in the civil rights of people from marginal backgrounds and the consequences of discrimination and social oppression. Campbell was Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching Scholarship) at the Griffith Law School from Jan 2011 - June 2013 and previously Convenor of Disability Studies, 2001 - 2010, School of Human Services, Griffith University. She is currently at The University of Dundee, School of Social Work & Education. I am a Co-lead of the Peripheries Research & Teaching Scholarship Theme (https://peripheriesresearchtheme.wordpress.com/)
She writes on disability—philosophy, ableism, jurisprudence, and technology. Her current research relates to ableism as a research methodology, South Asian approaches to disability, theologies of the body, biblical and buddhist hermeneutics. Her work is interested in ways non-western knowledges, especially those derivative of Indian philosophy can be deployed to reassess western social theories of 'difference', intersubjectives and global wellbeing.
In 1998 La Trobe University awarded Fiona the D. M. Myers University Medal; the Deans' Medal (Faculty of Law & Management); the Jean Martin Prize in Sociology and the Blake, Dawson Waldron - 4th year Law Prize.
Fiona has had a diverse career as a disability activist, she has undertaken professional roles in the government and non-government sectors and provided regular advice to former Ministers of Community Services Senator Don Grimes & Dr Neil Blewitt and was integral to the establishment of attendant care in Australia. As a member of a monastic order for nearly four years, she established a food bank service for the homeless along the Hawkesbury River in NSW, provided spiritual guidance to homeless men in a shelter in Kings Cross, participated in meditation retreats, engaged in nonviolent mediation training and worked in the indigenous community of Palm Island in Northern Queensland.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-2963
Professional Biography:
A Professor in philosophy, sociology, jurisprudence and theology (Jewish and Buddhist).Fiona Kumari Campbell has had a long standing interest in the civil rights of people from marginal backgrounds and the consequences of discrimination and social oppression. Campbell was Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching Scholarship) at the Griffith Law School from Jan 2011 - June 2013 and previously Convenor of Disability Studies, 2001 - 2010, School of Human Services, Griffith University. She is currently at The University of Dundee, School of Social Work & Education. I am a Co-lead of the Peripheries Research & Teaching Scholarship Theme (https://peripheriesresearchtheme.wordpress.com/)
She writes on disability—philosophy, ableism, jurisprudence, and technology. Her current research relates to ableism as a research methodology, South Asian approaches to disability, theologies of the body, biblical and buddhist hermeneutics. Her work is interested in ways non-western knowledges, especially those derivative of Indian philosophy can be deployed to reassess western social theories of 'difference', intersubjectives and global wellbeing.
In 1998 La Trobe University awarded Fiona the D. M. Myers University Medal; the Deans' Medal (Faculty of Law & Management); the Jean Martin Prize in Sociology and the Blake, Dawson Waldron - 4th year Law Prize.
Fiona has had a diverse career as a disability activist, she has undertaken professional roles in the government and non-government sectors and provided regular advice to former Ministers of Community Services Senator Don Grimes & Dr Neil Blewitt and was integral to the establishment of attendant care in Australia. As a member of a monastic order for nearly four years, she established a food bank service for the homeless along the Hawkesbury River in NSW, provided spiritual guidance to homeless men in a shelter in Kings Cross, participated in meditation retreats, engaged in nonviolent mediation training and worked in the indigenous community of Palm Island in Northern Queensland.
WANT MORE OF ME?
I have a Public Figure Facebook page for updates on activities. I am no longer accepting friend requests from people that I don’t personally know. The main reason this page was established was to more clearly separate my personal FB page and public activities to establish a measure of privacy. I welcome you to LIKE this page and follow me:
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Ableism by Fiona Kumari Campbell
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability & Ableism Studies, University of Dundee, Scotland, (f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk)
29th of April 2021, Humboldt University of Berlin via zoom, Zentrum fūr Inklusionsforschung
DRAFT – NOT FOR CITATION – CONTACT THE AUTHOR
Keynote for RMU Research Network, “Inclusion as a Field of Tension”, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany,1st October 2020.
During the global COVID-19 pandemic we are witnessing the return of soft eugenics as well as the legitimisation of scientific racism (Livytska, 2020; Saini, 2019), the expansion of self-identification jurisprudence and genetic genealogy to bolster nationalist politics (Hannah et al, 2020). This presentation will discuss an assertion that SiA in focusing on groups beyond ‘disability’, for example race, caste, ethnic and religious minorities; might dilute the claims and specificity of the disability experience, just at the moment that the disability rights movement is making gains. In response, I will argue that SiA as a theoretical apparatus, acts as a remedy to address complex processes of ‘identity creep’ through its capacity to trace patterns of convergence around classifying practices, nuance variability between different marginal communities, ultimately contributing to a greater understanding of sites of struggle, differences and similarities between groups who would not normally come together. Studies in Ableism, as political theory and as a template for practice, can bring together disparate communities in solidarity to work towards accessible futures for the subalterns of the world.
Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professeur d'études sur le handicap et le validisme, Université de Dundee (Ecosse).
E-mail: fkcampbell@dundee.ac.uk
Keynote préparé pour la conférence ALTER (European Society for Disability Research) 2021 (8/9 avril) - communication orale, ne pas citer.
Ce document a été soumis à un lecteur automatique pour traduction, de sorte que certaines grammaires et certains concepts peuvent ne pas être précis.
Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability and Ableism Studies, University of Dundee (Scotland).
Email: f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk
Keynote prepared for the ALTER (European Society for Disability Research) 2021 conference (8/9 April) - oral communication, please do not quote.
This is a draft and will be revised as some argument was left out due to time limitations for the presentation. I will upload a machine translation in French as well, although it might not be 100% accurate.
This presentation will discuss the convergence of these new realities and consider the COVID-19 crisis as a moment of opportunity to harness the role of consciousness raising strategies, in order to bring together disparate groups of disabled people in conversation, reflection and ultimately, action around institutionalised ableism.
University of Birmingham, Disability History Month, 2/12/2020
Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability and Ableism Studies
‘Discovery’ Talk, January 2021, University of Dundee
(this is an outline of my presentation; it is not a verbatim transcript)
The increasing disability ontology wars are foregrounded by discussing the ways in which 'negative ontologies' are written into the practices and effects of law. As such, the article's focal concerns extend to law's understanding of the autonomous individual and technologies of freedom, strategies of 'social injuries', and attempts to introduce new formations of disability related to matters of 'election' and 'mitigation'. These battles over the (re)writing of disability are important because they affect the access of people with disabilities to welfare provision, protection under anti-discrimination legislation and formations of the perfectible, abled human self.
Finally, the article concludes by suggesting that the law's continual reiteration of defective corporeality through the signification of 'disability' as legal proclamation (prescription) not only disallows the 'disabled' subject any escape from the normalising practices of compensation and mitigation but continues to negate possibilities of imagining the desiring 'disabled subject' in any voluptuous way.
Professor Fiona Kumari Campbell, Professor of Disability & Ableism Studies, University of Dundee. (f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk)
Full NADSN paper available at https://nadsn-uk.org/2020/05/21/covid-post-lockdown-perspectives-implications-and-strategies-for-disabled-staff-nadsns-position-paper/
Professor Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability & Ableism Studies, University of Dundee. (f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk)
My Papers: https://dundee.academia.edu/FionaKumariCampbell
For the Womens Liberation Conference 50th University, 1 February 2020, London, UCL, Disabled Women & Activism Workshop.
Fiona Kumari Campbell, University of Dundee, Scotland
Email: f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk
Policy and legal responses to social inclusion for disabled people have typically taken the road of reasonable adjustment and the promotion of accessibility standards predicated on the basis of a social contract that espouses assimilation, leaving the norms of ableism not just intact but ensuring the primacy of ablement as a naturalised worldview. What is erased in this encounter with ableism is a rendering of ableism as a harm; a harm that in fact induces ‘crisis’ and erases disabled peoples’ experiences of humiliation and degradation. Social exclusion by way of geographical ‘lock-outs’, has a rippling effect with hostile and humiliating inaccessible environments communally impacting, all of us – as strangers and friends observe someone else’s humiliation and exclusion. Inaccessible environments make and position disabled people as problematic bystanders – we, disabled who look in, simply imagine another possibility or because of the degree of inaccessibility we become alienated from organisational environments. Inaccessible relations hurt and as such constitute an assault on beingness and shape the ontological character of being considered fully human. I have used the term onto-violence to capture these effects that literally seep into the interior spaces of a ‘cast out’ person’s beingness (ontological framing) producing instant and longer-term defilements of the body and mind.
This chapter examines a number of cases from European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that deal with ‘ontoviolence’ and how the reasoning in those cases has predominately been ignored by authorities in the UK in their planning of diversity landscapes as well as a negation of the impact of negotiating inaccessible environments. Increasingly technological and disease markers produced by the pharma-industrial complexes are limiting the remit of the ‘normal’ as captured by the concept of ‘health’, thus increasing the pool of ‘abnormal’ populations outside of the state of the general population using standardised services and processes. Unclear adjudications of ‘health’ in turn shape differentiations of healthy and unhealthy/chronically ill/special needs cohorts. These ECtHR cases contain rich wisdom about ableism and its relationship to humiliation. As a strategy of resistance, it is integral to understand the processes and practices of ableism, not only to foreground the violence of ableism, but also to develop tactics of intervention that expose and disrupt pervasive ablement in setting such as universities and government.
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability & Ableism Studies, University of Dundee, Scotland, (f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk)
29th of April 2021, Humboldt University of Berlin via zoom, Zentrum fūr Inklusionsforschung
DRAFT – NOT FOR CITATION – CONTACT THE AUTHOR
Keynote for RMU Research Network, “Inclusion as a Field of Tension”, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany,1st October 2020.
During the global COVID-19 pandemic we are witnessing the return of soft eugenics as well as the legitimisation of scientific racism (Livytska, 2020; Saini, 2019), the expansion of self-identification jurisprudence and genetic genealogy to bolster nationalist politics (Hannah et al, 2020). This presentation will discuss an assertion that SiA in focusing on groups beyond ‘disability’, for example race, caste, ethnic and religious minorities; might dilute the claims and specificity of the disability experience, just at the moment that the disability rights movement is making gains. In response, I will argue that SiA as a theoretical apparatus, acts as a remedy to address complex processes of ‘identity creep’ through its capacity to trace patterns of convergence around classifying practices, nuance variability between different marginal communities, ultimately contributing to a greater understanding of sites of struggle, differences and similarities between groups who would not normally come together. Studies in Ableism, as political theory and as a template for practice, can bring together disparate communities in solidarity to work towards accessible futures for the subalterns of the world.
Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professeur d'études sur le handicap et le validisme, Université de Dundee (Ecosse).
E-mail: fkcampbell@dundee.ac.uk
Keynote préparé pour la conférence ALTER (European Society for Disability Research) 2021 (8/9 avril) - communication orale, ne pas citer.
Ce document a été soumis à un lecteur automatique pour traduction, de sorte que certaines grammaires et certains concepts peuvent ne pas être précis.
Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability and Ableism Studies, University of Dundee (Scotland).
Email: f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk
Keynote prepared for the ALTER (European Society for Disability Research) 2021 conference (8/9 April) - oral communication, please do not quote.
This is a draft and will be revised as some argument was left out due to time limitations for the presentation. I will upload a machine translation in French as well, although it might not be 100% accurate.
This presentation will discuss the convergence of these new realities and consider the COVID-19 crisis as a moment of opportunity to harness the role of consciousness raising strategies, in order to bring together disparate groups of disabled people in conversation, reflection and ultimately, action around institutionalised ableism.
University of Birmingham, Disability History Month, 2/12/2020
Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability and Ableism Studies
‘Discovery’ Talk, January 2021, University of Dundee
(this is an outline of my presentation; it is not a verbatim transcript)
The increasing disability ontology wars are foregrounded by discussing the ways in which 'negative ontologies' are written into the practices and effects of law. As such, the article's focal concerns extend to law's understanding of the autonomous individual and technologies of freedom, strategies of 'social injuries', and attempts to introduce new formations of disability related to matters of 'election' and 'mitigation'. These battles over the (re)writing of disability are important because they affect the access of people with disabilities to welfare provision, protection under anti-discrimination legislation and formations of the perfectible, abled human self.
Finally, the article concludes by suggesting that the law's continual reiteration of defective corporeality through the signification of 'disability' as legal proclamation (prescription) not only disallows the 'disabled' subject any escape from the normalising practices of compensation and mitigation but continues to negate possibilities of imagining the desiring 'disabled subject' in any voluptuous way.
Professor Fiona Kumari Campbell, Professor of Disability & Ableism Studies, University of Dundee. (f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk)
Full NADSN paper available at https://nadsn-uk.org/2020/05/21/covid-post-lockdown-perspectives-implications-and-strategies-for-disabled-staff-nadsns-position-paper/
Professor Fiona Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability & Ableism Studies, University of Dundee. (f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk)
My Papers: https://dundee.academia.edu/FionaKumariCampbell
For the Womens Liberation Conference 50th University, 1 February 2020, London, UCL, Disabled Women & Activism Workshop.
Fiona Kumari Campbell, University of Dundee, Scotland
Email: f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk
Policy and legal responses to social inclusion for disabled people have typically taken the road of reasonable adjustment and the promotion of accessibility standards predicated on the basis of a social contract that espouses assimilation, leaving the norms of ableism not just intact but ensuring the primacy of ablement as a naturalised worldview. What is erased in this encounter with ableism is a rendering of ableism as a harm; a harm that in fact induces ‘crisis’ and erases disabled peoples’ experiences of humiliation and degradation. Social exclusion by way of geographical ‘lock-outs’, has a rippling effect with hostile and humiliating inaccessible environments communally impacting, all of us – as strangers and friends observe someone else’s humiliation and exclusion. Inaccessible environments make and position disabled people as problematic bystanders – we, disabled who look in, simply imagine another possibility or because of the degree of inaccessibility we become alienated from organisational environments. Inaccessible relations hurt and as such constitute an assault on beingness and shape the ontological character of being considered fully human. I have used the term onto-violence to capture these effects that literally seep into the interior spaces of a ‘cast out’ person’s beingness (ontological framing) producing instant and longer-term defilements of the body and mind.
This chapter examines a number of cases from European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that deal with ‘ontoviolence’ and how the reasoning in those cases has predominately been ignored by authorities in the UK in their planning of diversity landscapes as well as a negation of the impact of negotiating inaccessible environments. Increasingly technological and disease markers produced by the pharma-industrial complexes are limiting the remit of the ‘normal’ as captured by the concept of ‘health’, thus increasing the pool of ‘abnormal’ populations outside of the state of the general population using standardised services and processes. Unclear adjudications of ‘health’ in turn shape differentiations of healthy and unhealthy/chronically ill/special needs cohorts. These ECtHR cases contain rich wisdom about ableism and its relationship to humiliation. As a strategy of resistance, it is integral to understand the processes and practices of ableism, not only to foreground the violence of ableism, but also to develop tactics of intervention that expose and disrupt pervasive ablement in setting such as universities and government.
, edited by John Clifford Holt, Oxford University Press, 2016. (I AM NOT A CO-AUTHOR)
Disability is representational system and its denotation is a result of how communities make sense of and mark corporeal differences. In this paper I argue that United Nations norm standard setting, a form of geodisability knowledge, determines the kinds of bodies known as disabled and acts as a technology of disability governmentality. The institutional strategic gaze, sited in the UN, examines, normalises and conditions Nation states. Without consensual international disability norms it would not be possible to disclose and make visible the dynamics of disability at a country level and for the WHO to map disability globally. An alternate reading of international norms is to figure the functioning of geodisability knowledge to naturalize through codifying hegemonic ways of seeing, citing and situating disability and thus colonise different cultural approaches to disability. A discussion of geodisability knowledge production is pursued within the context of a Sri Lankan case study.
ெதாகுதி 205 - இல. 6
Volume 205 - No. 6
2011 ෙදසැම්බර් 07 වන බදාදා
2011 சம்பர் 07, தன்கிழைம
Wednesday, 07th December, 2011
In terms of religious proclivities hegemonic discourses present Sri Lanka as an Island populated by the four main world religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam. Judaism and the Jew is absent from official discourses to the extent that it is a commonly held belief that “there have never been any Jews in Sri Lanka”. Although somewhat erroneous and imprecise, the view articulated is that unlike India, there have not been any Jewish communities in Sri Lanka. This paper challenges that view by providing a preliminary historical foray into Jewish life in Sri Lanka. First is a discussion about the methods of research and climatic difficulties. The discussion moves onto consider the relationship between Jewish pogroms in the 1500s – 1700s and the conquest of the Ceylon by the Portuguese (1505 – 1656), Dutch (1656 – 1796) and finally the British (1796 – 1948). There is a brief consideration of the Jewish presence in Sri Lanka before the Portuguese conquest, shifting to a more nuanced articulation of Jewish relations under Portuguese and Dutch occupation. The later part of the paper is concerned with identifying Jewish communal life under the British until Ceylonese independence in 1948.
uk.nadsn@gmail.com | http://nadsn-uk.org | @nadsn_uk
NADSN Steering Committee
21st May 2020, Authors: Nicole Brown, Fiona Kumari Campbell, Jacqueline Nicholson
This report, carried out by the University of Dundee, is a key step in the Scottish Government’s review of social care in prisons. It has 17 areas of focus for recommendations, and key themes include human rights, equality and diversity issues, the role of social work in prisons and the impact of prison on people with disability and long term conditions. Scottish governmnets response: https://www.gov.scot/publications/a-new-vision-for-social-care-in-prisons-our-response/
Full citation for this report:
Levy, S., Campbell, F. K., Kelly, L. and Fernandes, F. (2018) A New Vision for Social Care in Prison, Dundee: School of Education & Social Work, University of Dundee.
Abstract:
Medico-legal literature frequently refers to instances where people with disabilities in the process of undertaking injury related civil litigation acquire what has been rather crudely referred to as 'litigation neurosis'. Proponents of this pathology argue that the quest for compensation generates malingering. Litigants might remain ‘sick’ because of the ‘rewards’ they are given or are likely to obtain by remaining hyper-disabled by the compensation system. This article discusses the meanings given to such responses and suggests that an alternative reading of 'litigation neurosis’: as a highly rational act of resistance towards a system that views disablement in a reductionist way, a system that reinforces the notion of disability as personal tragedy. As part of negotiating welfare and legal systems that enumerate disability in terms of deficiency and pathology, tacit knowledges about responses to the government of disability, reveal that disabled people are highly skilled in ‘recripping’ or ‘decripping' themselves to satify eligibility criteria as well as the expected performances of ableism.
Keywords:
Legal discourse, compensation neurosis, disabled identities, biomedicalism, injury management, disability resistance.
This paper is a discussion of the processes and politics of listening to difference – different histories, embracing that difference and not subsuming it into an ableist norm. In particular the paper is interested in the accumulative effects of ableism and the negotiation of private and public memory regarding disabled person’s relations with the Australian State. My analysis draws heavily on the work of Connerton, 1989; Farrell, 1998; van Alphen, 1999; and the development and application of notions of ‘grievability’, the ‘grievable life’ (Butler, 2009), ‘regret & guilt’ (Olick, 2007; Schlink, 2009), ‘muted voices’ (Kuhrt & Sancisi-Weerdenburg, 1990) traditionally not specifically applied to disabled people. The challenge is to log survival in an ableist society, to grasp it’s incompatibility and incomprehensibility “…between experiences and the affected person’s capacity to report it due to the fact that real events do not offer themselves in the form of stories” (Reiter, 2005, 13).
It has been nearly thirty years since the commencement of the decarceration of disabled people from institutions and the embrace of a discourse of social inclusion. Drawing upon the discussion of listening and the making of ‘oppositional voice’, the paper also explores the politics of regret and the ways memorialisation is signified in the light of recent public apologies by government (indigenous stolen generation, English child migrants), Australian disability policy and contemporary campaigning to close existing institutions as part of the “Shut Out” campaign. Of interest is the different ways ‘voice’ is harnessed to negotiate the disabled past. Finally the mechanisms of accountability to the unheard and the problems of speaking for others are considered with referencing to a relationality model of disability which understands disability to be formed through faulty relations (Hamonet, 2006).
The focal concerns of The Great Divide relate to matters of ordering, disorder and constitutional compartmentalization between the normal and pathological and the ways that discourses about wholeness, health, enhancement and perfection produce notions of impairment. A central argument of this dissertation figures the production of disability as part of the tussle over ordering, emerging from a desire to create order from an assumed disorder; resulting in a flimsy but often unconvincing attempt to shore up so-called optimal ontologies and disperse outlaw ontologies. The Great Divide examines ways ‘disability’ rubs up against, mingles with and provokes other seemingly unrelated concepts such as wellness, ableness, perfection, competency, causation, productivity and use value. The scaffolding of the dissertation directs the reader to selected sites that produce epistemologies of disability and ableism, namely the writing of 'history' and Judeo-Christian renderings of Disability. It explores the nuances of ableism (including a case study of wrongful life torts in law) and the phenomenon of internalized ableism as experienced by many disabled people. The study of liberalism and the government of government are explored in terms of enumeration, the science of 'counting cripples' and the battles over defining 'disability' in law and social policy. Additionally another axis of ableism is explored through the study of a number of perfecting technologies and the way in which these technologies mediate what it means to be 'human' (normalcy), morphs/simulates 'normalcy' and the leakiness of 'disability'. This analysis charts the invention of forearms transplantation (a la Clint Hallam), the Cochlear implant and transhumanism. The Great Divide concludes with an inversion of the ableist gaze(s) by proposing an ethic of affirmation, a desiring ontology of impairment.
John Della Bosca, National Campaign Director, NDIS
A/Prof Fiona Kumari Campbell, Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching Scholarship), Griffith Law School, Griffith University
Leanne Wallace, Principal (Strategy and Public Policy), The Nous Group
Yale University
cpgray@aya.yale.edu
Disability studies has solidified itself as a vibrant interdisciplinary field with the potential to transform and challenge not just how we think about disability but also to reframe the basic assumptions we make about what it means to be human beings. Rather than viewing disability as something inherently bad or problematic, disability studies aims to recast disability as a difference that should be valued. Despite its overwhelming potential, in the social sciences at least, disability studies still has not gained the attention it is rightly due. However, developments in the field of sociology, such as the recent formation of the Disability and Society section for the American Sociological Association suggest that this is changing.
Fiona Campbell’s recent book titled Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Ableness offers a welcome addition to social scientific literature on disability. In particular, Contours of Ableism may be viewed as part of a growing literature in disability studies that emphasizes the reciprocal relationship between disability and ability or ableism, as Campbell refers to it. This literature positions disability in a broader discursive and normative framework where all bodies are subjected to normalizing scrutiny and regulation
Le mot crise désigne un moment d'opportunité plutôt que la compréhension populaire d'un chaos menaçant. Les mouvements de défense des droits civiques se sont engagés autour de la politique identitaire comme point de ralliement même si, comme Gaytri Spivak (1988) l'a noté, l'activisme implique ce qu'elle a appelé «l'essentialisme stratégique»; l'adoption de catégories d'identité à des fins politiques stratégiques, plutôt que de représenter réellement la réalité de l'auto-conceptualisation ou des expériences vécues des peuples. Studies in Ableism (SiA) a pour objectif, une préoccupation avec la notion de capacité et comment les normes du capacitisme produisent des pratiques ontologiques et épistémologiques qui privilégient certains attributs et idéaux de l'humanité, aboutissant à des actes de stratification / valorisation humaine (Campbell, 2009, 2019).
Pendant la pandémie mondiale de COVID-19, nous assistons au retour de l'eugénisme doux ainsi qu'à la légitimation du racisme scientifique (Livytska, 2020; Saini, 2019), l'expansion de la jurisprudence d'auto-identification et de la généalogie génétique pour renforcer la politique nationaliste (Hannah et al, 2020). Cette présentation discutera d'une affirmation selon laquelle SiA se concentre sur des groupes au-delà du «handicap», par exemple les minorités raciales, de caste, ethniques et religieuses; pourrait diluer les revendications et la spécificité de l'expérience du handicap, juste au moment où le mouvement des droits des personnes handicapées fait des progrès. En réponse, je soutiendrai que le SiA en tant qu'appareil théorique, agit comme un remède pour traiter des processus complexes de `` fluage identitaire '' grâce à sa capacité à tracer des modèles de convergence autour des pratiques de classification, la variabilité des nuances entre différentes communautés marginales, contribuant finalement à une plus grande compréhension des sites de lutte, différences et similitudes entre des groupes qui ne se réuniraient normalement pas. Les études sur l'Ableisme, en tant que théorie politique et modèle de pratique, peuvent rassembler des communautés disparates dans la solidarité pour travailler à un avenir accessible pour les subalternes du monde.
Biology +, 1st (virtual) inclusiveIB Symposium
August 25th, 2020, 10am - 3pm, UC Berkeley.
I am interested in supervising students for the following projects. These are currently non-funded projects, but I am committed to exploring funding options with you. I also welcome other suggestions as well, as my knowledge specialism (philosophy, sociology, theology, legal studies, community development) and interests are VERY broad. I welcome proposals that explore intersections with queer, caste, race, trans, gender, class; either full time, part time – on campus or distance.
**Revealing Abledment: Ableism and the Body Politic**
Studies in Ableism (SiA) is now a recognised sub-specialism of critical disability studies and focuses on ways that abledment (the process of being/becoming ‘abled’) is located within societal processes and practices. Temporality, place and context are significant for the formation of bodies and populations marked as ‘abled’, and the remnant sometimes marked as ‘disabled’. I am keen to support PhD candidates who are interested in investigating the production of abledment within a specific realm (this could be the notion of citizenship in more collectivist societies, ideas of reciprocity and hospitality in family-kin networks; abledment and abjection; ‘advances’ in science; abledment, technology and productivity; abledment and leadership; and so on). Students will be provided with support in absorbing the canon of critical disability studies in order to gain insights into radical appraisals of disability before moving in the literature of SiA. The project requires a student who is committed to reading broadly across traditional disciplinary boundaries and non-western cultural contexts, hungry for deliberation and problematisation; and ultimately comfortable with complexity and uncertainties. This project would suit PhD students from humanities (history, art aesthetics, medical humanities), social sciences (sociology, politics, cultural studies, anthropology, legal studies) and social work, community learning & development.
**Sub-Continent Religious Traditions, Disability (Non-normative Bodies)**
Miles (2013) estimates that at least half of all the world’s disabled people live Asia. Two billion people live in regions where Buddhism has influenced the way people think and act, yet despite these extraordinary enumerations, Buddhist and Hindu beliefs concerning disability (or non-normative bodies) and the impact of these beliefs on social inclusion, social policy and law has been poorly studied. Approaches to social policy and legal flora based on Western traditions are exported from the occident to the global south with minimal adaption. Studies in Ableism (SiA) is now a recognised sub-specialism of critical disability studies and focuses on ways that abledment (the process of being/becoming ‘abled’) is located within societal processes and practices. Temporality, place and context are significant for the formation of bodies and populations marked as ‘abled’, and the remnant sometimes marked as ‘disabled’. Topics for this project will be negotiated but can include: karma (kamma) and rebirth, concepts of self and community (family-kin relations), social welfare responses to peripheral, marginalised communities (religious prescription of social order around purity/pollution), Buddhist ethics and pedagogy, disabled veterans, the idea of mental illness. This project would suit PhD students from humanities (Buddhist studies, history, medical humanities), social sciences (Asian studies, sociology, anthropology, international development studies, theology) and social work, community learning & development. The project requires a student who is committed to reading broadly across traditional disciplinary boundaries and non-western cultural contexts, hungry for deliberation; and ultimately comfortable with complexity and religious critique. Prior knowledge/commitment to a South Asian religious tradition would be a helpful asset, although not essential.
**Ableism, Microaggressions and the Law**
Studies in Ableism (SiA) is now a recognised sub-specialism of critical disability studies and focuses on ways that abledment (the process of being/becoming ‘abled’) is located within societal processes and practices. Temporality, place and context are significant for the formation of bodies and populations marked as ‘abled’, and the remnant sometimes marked as ‘disabled’. Law, along with medicine has played a crucial role in shaping legal regimes and public policy discourses around disability and liveability. This project seeks PhD candidates who are interested in investigating the formation a jurisprudence of disability within common law and civil law systems. This project could be in criminal law (the disabled subject as a witness, victim or perpetrator in sexual offences), civil law (negligence or torts), welfare or administrative law (social insurance, benefit systems) or mental health law (disabled subjects of incarceration, consent and restraint), post-conflict reconciliation, to name a few areas. The research could be sited as historical, contemporary, comparative or cover all three domains. This project would suit PhD students from social sciences (law, legal studies, politics), and community learning & development.
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This seminar was run in a private capacity.The presenter has been involved in several roles with over 8 journals in disability and beyond. She also reviews over 50 manuscripts each year submitted to journals or for book publication.
In the seminar we will discuss decision-making around journal selection, promoting your publication, reviewing journal scope, some of the challenges of interdisciplinary and multi-readership research as well as getting ‘obscure’ topics and country locations published. Committed to rigor in research scholarship, Prof Campbell will speak to the common mistakes made in manuscript development.
This seminar is of interest to PhD students, independent and early career researchers and those researching outside the metropole of the publishing world. Further details of other upcoming seminars email f.k.campbell@dundee.ac.uk