JOHANNSDOTTIR, Asta/EGILSON SNAEFRIDUR THora/GIBSON, Barbara E.
ISBN / ISSN:
ISSN 0968-7599
Année de publication:
2021
Date de publication:
01/04/2021
Résumé:
Affect theories have become widespread in feminist research and other critical social sciences but have just recently entered critical disability studies. This paper is an attempt to connect the two. We argue that it is important to ground theoretical discussion in empirical data and discuss how affective practices can offer a deeper, more nuanced analysis to unfold shame and other negative affects. In order to shed light on how shame may unfold, we draw on data from focus group interviews with young disabled people as informants. The paper concludes with a discussion of the possibilities for empirically analysing affect in critical disability studies, showing how power circulates through affect. The circulating affects are sometimes hard to recognize and, therefore resist. When recognized, the imposition of shame can be resisted over time. [Résumé d'auteur]