Disability, Queer Phenomenology, and the Politics of Personhood

• Authors: Abrams Thomas

Title variants

PL

Niepełnosprawność, fenomenologia queer i polityka osobowości

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology from a disability studies perspective. In addition to her emphasis on race and desire, I ask how we might use Ahmed’s queer, cultural phenomenology to ask about the sociomaterial basis of disablement, reflecting on the interactive emergence of these subjectivities more generally. In the first section of this paper, I examine¬¬ the three main chapters in Ahmed’s important book. I then ask what Ahmed might have asked, if she had explored disability therein. Next, I turn to some phenomenological disability studies, interrogating how subjectivity is put to work in the shared world, rather than universally accorded to all persons at all times. In the final section of this paper, I return to the basis of the phenomenological project itself, and ask what this revised version of subjectivity means for the phenomenology of Heidegger and Husserl, with an eye to future work.

PL

Niniejszy tekst stanowi refleksję na temat ważnej książki Sary Ahmed, Fenomenologia queer, z perspektywy studiów nad niepełnosprawnością. Sama Ahmed kładzie nacisk na kategorie rasy i pożądania. Warto się jednak zastanowić, czy istnieje możliwość wykorzystania jej queerowej fenomenologii kulturowej w rozważaniach na temat społeczno-materialnego podłoża niepełnosprawności i interaktywnego powstawania niepełnosprawnych podmiotowości. Pierwsza część artykułu analizuje trzy główne rozdziały książki Ahmed. W kolejnej części autor zastanawia się, jakie pytania zadałaby Ahmed, gdyby badała niepełnosprawność. Następnie zwraca się ku fenomenologicznym badaniom niepełnosprawności, zadając pytanie, jak funkcjonuje podmiotowość w świecie dzielonym z innymi, nie jako atrybut dany raz na zawsze wszystkim osobom. W końcowej części artykułu autor powraca do głównego zadania fenomenologii, by poszukiwać odpowiedzi na pytanie, co takie zrewidowane pojęcie podmiotowości oznacza dla fenomenologii Heideggera i Husserla, oraz jak może zostać wykorzystane w dalszych badaniach.

Keywords

EN

Phenomenology; Disability; Queer Theory; Racialization; Sara Ahmed

PL

fenomenologia; niepełnosprawność; teoria queer; urasowienie; Sara Ahmed

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich
• Journal: InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 11a
• Pages: 1 - 18

Contributors

author

Abrams Thomas

• University of Toronto

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