Crip Displacements: Voices of Disability, Neoliberalism, and Resistance
Prof. Robert McRuer
Date: Tuesday 15 July, 2014
Time: 2.15pm–3.45pm
Place: Eden 109, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Theorists of neoliberalism, from David Harvey to Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou, have placed dispossession and displacement at
the center of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global
capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these
analyses. Professor Robert McRuer’s seminar attends to crip echoes
generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity
politics. Centering on British-Mexican relations during a moment of
austerity in the UK and gentrification in Mexico, “Crip Displacements”
identifies both the voices of disability that are recognized by and made
useful for neoliberalism as well as those shut down or displaced by
this dominant economic and cultural system. Professor McRuer
particularly focuses on two events from 2013: a British embassy good
will event touting access in Mexico City and an installation of
photographs by Livia Radawanski, from the same period. Radwanski’s
photos of the redevelopment of a Mexico City neighborhood (and the
displacement of poor people living in the neighborhood) are examined in
order to attend to the ways in which disability might productively haunt
theories of neoliberal dispossession.
Robert McRuer is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (2006) and editor, with Anna Mollow, of Sex and Disability (2012). He is also a JLCDS editorial board member, contributor, book reviewer, and guest editor.
This seminar is part of the CCDS series, The Voice of Disability. Other dates include:
8 Oct 2014, Manifest Pleasures: Litany, Utopia, and Literary Autism, Julia Miele Rodas.
12 Nov 2014, Discourses, Decisions, Designs: An international comparative analysis of “special” educational policy making, Jessica Chong.
17 Dec 2014, It’s Not Gibberish: ‘Disabled’ Voices in Literature for Young People, Chloë Hughes.
14 Jan 2015, It Must Be Simple: The Supreme Fiction at the Core of the Backlash to Access Debate, David Feeney.
11 Feb 2015, Authorship and the voice of disability in dance, Mathilde Pavis and Kate Marsh.
11 Mar 2015, Which Theory of Democracy for an Inclusive Society? A Pragmaticist Approach, David Doat.
13 May 2015,
The Voice of the Disability Activist Movement in the US around the
ADA: A Hidden Minority or a Hidden Army, Lennard J. Davis.
17 Jun 2015, ‘Working together for positive outcomes’: The Appropriation of Voice and Participation in SEN policy, Claire Penketh.
For further information please contact:
Dr. David Bolt
Associate Professor, Education, Culture, and Disability Studies
Director, Centre for Culture & Disability Studies
Editor in Chief, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Joint Editor, Literary Disability Studies
Email: boltd@hope.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 291 3346
Office: HCA 001
Postal address: Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK, L16 9JD.
Recent Books:
Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: http://www.routledge.com/
The Metanarrative of Blindness: http://www.press.umich.edu/
The Madwoman and the Blindman: https://ohiostatepress.org/
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