Storying ableism: proposing a feminist intersectional approach to linking theory and digital activism

被引:2
作者
More, Rahel [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
[2] Univ Klagenfurt, Dept Educ Sci, Univ Str 65-67, A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
关键词
Ableism; digital activism; intersectionality; feminism; storying; theory; DISABILITY;
D O I
10.1177/14647001231173242
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
By addressing ableism through social media and other digital outlets, feminist disability activists share stories on what it means to be human from an intersectional perspective, and their storying is a way of understanding and theorising the world. However, the possibilities of digital disability activism to story ableism within broader feminist debates are underexplored. Storying as an anti-hegemonic approach to theorising ableism further from an intersectional perspective, implemented through an activist-academic working alliance, contributes to speaking otherwise about disability and draws attention to disability perspectives in feminist theory. In this article, I propose a feminist intersectional approach to storying ableism that exposes manifestations of ableism in its intersections with classism, racism and sexism at structural, identity and representational levels. I then argue for digital disability activism as a means of storying ableism, provide examples of such storying and describe the potentials and principles of digital activist storying. While the creation of further theory is central to the proposed approach, the connection of intersectionality theory with ableism and feminist disability theory serves as its foundation. I discuss how linking ableism with intersectionality strengthens the uncovering of ableism at different levels, why studies of ableism should be extended to fields beyond Disability Studies but remain closely connected to disability activism and how feminist disability theory has thus far shaped debates on the dis/ability binary in relation to the gendered body.
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页码:322 / 337
页数:16
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