FG205 - Critical Disability Studies
This course focuses on recent interventions in critical disability studies by queer, trans, nonbinary, BIPOC and transnational writers/scholars/activists who draw inspiration from the disability justice movement. In doing so, we explore how (dis)ability is mediated by gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, class, caste, nation, and citizenship. We analyze how ableism intersects with other modalities of power and oppression such as colonialism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, sexism, heteronormativity, classism, capitalist exploitation, neoliberalism, carceral logics, etc. We grapple with the debilitating and endemic effects of racism, capitalism, global inequality, war, imperialism, institutional neglect, etc., moving beyond a legalistic, neoliberal, and purely medical understanding of disability as well as wellness and broadening the contours of what constitutes a critical disability studies approach. Finally, we learn about disability studies as a methodology that enriches our understanding of power and subjectivity, and problematizes dominant conceptions of normativity, embodiment, temporality, agency, activism, health, productivity, freedom, utopia, and solidarity. (Not offered 2025-26).
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