Disabled people and subjugated knowledges: new understandings and strategies developed by people living with chronic conditions

Be Pereira, Ana (2019) Disabled people and subjugated knowledges: new understandings and strategies developed by people living with chronic conditions. Disability and Society.

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Abstract

This article provides a contribution to our understanding of
the knowledges and strategies developed by people living
with chronic illnesses, based on an empirical study with
this population in England and Portugal. The article begins
by mapping out the debates in disability studies which
have focused on embodiment. It continues by arguing that
disabled people constantly have to negotiate codes about
the body based on normative notions of the body, which I
term normative corporality. The main themes arising from
participants’ accounts are then identified and discussed.
The article ends by arguing that the knowledges and strategies
developed by disabled people are often not noticed
or are devalued as we tend to value knowledges of the
body that come from established systems of knowledge, or
from bodies our society deem normative. Thus, disabled
people’s knowledges can be conceptualized as subjugated
knowledges.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Chronic illness, embodied knowledge, subjugated knowledges, strategies
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Ana Be Pereira
Date Deposited:	16 May 2019 10:10
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2021 14:10
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2822

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