Między aktywizmem a akademią. Studia nad niepełnosprawnością
Between Activism and Academy: Disability Studies

Summary/Abstract: This article outlines the history and theoretical foundations of disability studies – a discipline that remains little known in Poland. Unlike medical and pedagogical paradigms, the social and cultural model does not see disability as an illness or a personal tragedy, but thinks about it in terms of identity and of socially negotiable concepts, attitudes and values. Zdrodowska situates disability studies in the context of Modernist redefinitions of norms as well as the process of medicalization that marked the twentieth century. The article’s main focus is on the discipline’s functioning in both academic frameworks and in social and political spheres. To illustrate the shift in perspective proposed by disability studies, Zdrodowska discusses the notions of ablism, inspiration porn as well as narrative prosthesis.

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