Lecute 4 Flashcards
Intersectionality definaitoin
Intersectionality is the name we give to the enhancement and diminution of our life chances accordingly to our biographer attributes and how they can overlap, cancel and reinforce eachother
Intersectionality is another way to entangle health
What is structural suffering?
Bhopal is also an example of Structural Suffering (or
systemic violence) where
!!!!! we see a systematic, widespread, predictable inequality of access to those processes that enhance and sustain wellbeing !!!!!!
• Acts via fault lines of deeply entrenched inequality
and disenfranchisement & organized economic activity and expressed towards dividuals & groups via our identities
• Social Model of Disability
• Social Model of Disability - Society as disabling –
the manner in which circulating norms about
what is an appropriate body shape, IQ, manner
of moving, height etc restrict the life chances of
people who demonstrate some perfectly
ordinary form of difference from this norm
• The Predicament model of Disability
(Shakespeare)
• The Predicament model of Disability
(Shakespeare) offers a more complex
understanding of disability noting that it has
medical and material components to it as well as
a disabling social world aspect, but it is also
about identity – the result is our ‘predicament’
that we must resolve ourselves as best we can
Read ups
The experience of unauthorized picture-taking of people with dwarfism can be analysed in several ways. This article has examined the historical cultural representations of people with dwarfism to contextualize how they have been objectified and marked as visually interesting, justifying a gaze on their bodies (Adelson Citation2005c). The portrayal of people with dwarfism as sources of entertainment to be mocked influences their experiences with strangers in public spaces and manifests in the gaze directed at them (Kruse Citation2002; Shakespeare, Thompson, and Wright Citation2007). This gaze can be analysed in conjunction with that of the ‘racialized’ and ‘sexualized’ gaze which enacts surveillance, scrutiny and control over both ‘back and brown’ and ‘female’ bodies (Columpar Citation2002; Crossley Citation1993). Photography has been utilized to define and categorize those marked as ‘other’ (Bogdan, Elks, and Knoll Citation2012). Photographic exploitation has cemented ideals of normality and relegated the ‘abnormal’ as deviant (Garland-Thomson Citation2002; Hughes Citation1999). The use of cell-phone cameras has changed how frequently pictures are taken in everyday life and has transformed who has the power to document that which is defined as ‘abnormal’ (Shakespeare Citation2016). The combination of these influences can be attributed to be significant to the experience of unauthorized picture-taking of people with dwarfism.
SIDES
• Shows the impact of people invading someone’s privacy and common dignity to take intrusive photos of people (dwarfs) whom they don’t know. The effect on the photographed people’s health is a damaging objectification
which creates an identity of being less than human…
• Why do this? - The answer is about historical approaches to using humandifference as a form of entertainment (Victorian Freak Shows); to early medicalisation of difference as an undesirable socially ‘backward’ and societally weakening trend requiring removal (Victorian Eugenics); and to the
continued meaning of difference created through the use of comparative photographs, more contemporary negative ways of ‘looking’ at shorter people is as stigmatised characters on soap opera.
• Medicalisation
– when medicine encroaches
onto aspects of life that were historically not recognized as being subject to the oversight and control of biomedical specialists ie birthing, degrees of abilities & impairments, queerness/homosexualities, deafness, older age, menopause
