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dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Fiona Kumari
dc.contributor.editorBerns, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:32:33Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:32:33Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.issn10383441
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/3714
dc.description.abstractActivists with 'disabilities' have placed great trust in the legal body to deliver freedoms in the form of equality rights and protections against discrimination. This article argues that, while such equalisation initiatives have provided remedies in the lives of some individuals with 'disabilities', the sub-text of 'disability' as negative ontology has remained substantially unchallenged. Understanding disability requires more sustained attention to the ontological nature of disability, in particular the ways in which a 'disabled person' is produced. The article opens with a discussion of the difficult and complex(ing) area of ontology - in particular the performativity of 'disability' as a history of unthought and then moves on to a discussion of the ways 'disabled bodies' negotiate the symbol trade in 'disability' within the confines of the ableist regime of law. 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherGriffith University
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.griffith.edu.au/
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom42
dc.relation.ispartofpageto62
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGriffith Law Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume10
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleInciting Legal Fictions: 'Disability's' date with Ontology and the Ableist Body of Law
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Law
gro.rights.copyright© 2001 Griffith Law School. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2015-01-20T01:05:00Z
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gro.griffith.authorCampbell, Fiona Kumari KA.


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