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(2016) Heidegger and the politics of disablement, Dordrecht, Springer.
In Chap. 4, I discuss disability studies' founding concern with capitalist social order. Traditionally, disability is defined as social oppression, based on the inability to work. I outline this traditional perspective in social model thought and the historical materialist perspectives. I then suggest we look to particular market technologies, by combining Heidegger's work on technology with Callon's theory of market formation. I then look to the case of disability supports in Ontario, Canada, to make sense of this theory. I suggest that reframing disability as care would allow a more extensive version of disability that would include episodic disorders, currently excluded from these supports. I conclude with a discussion of capitalism in general.
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Abrams, T. (2016). Capitalism, in Heidegger and the politics of disablement, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 75-100.
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