Cripping Time – Understanding the Life Course through the Lens of Ableism

Normative time occupies a prominent place in life course theory. Time intersects with the life course to dictate discourses of appropriate life stage progression in a linear chain of events from birth to reproduction and finally death. Taking crip time and the life course as their focus, the papers...

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Published inScandinavian journal of disability research : SJDR Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 35 - 38
Main Authors Ljuslinder, Karin, Ellis, Katie, Vikström, Lotta
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Stockholm Ubiquity Press Ltd 10.03.2020
Ubiquity Press
Stockholm University Press
Subjects
Ableism
Aging
Chronic pain
Crip Time
Culture
Disability
Disability discrimination
Disability studies
Heteronormativity
Life course
Life expectancy
Muscular dystrophy
United Kingdom
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Summary:Normative time occupies a prominent place in life course theory. Time intersects with the life course to dictate discourses of appropriate life stage progression in a linear chain of events from birth to reproduction and finally death. Taking crip time and the life course as their focus, the papers in this special section recognize that cultural understandings of what constitutes disability are connected to understandings of time and the idea of a normative life course, which in turn builds on ableist norms. The idea of ability as the desirable normal state creates a realm of compulsory able-bodidness. Everybody that falls outside this hegemonic assumption is culturally deviant and wrong. Crip time creates an understanding of time that differs from ableist time and unravels the social construction of ability. Crip time is approached from multiple perspectives in this special section and traverse a number of disciplines and different methodologies. Keywords: disability, crip time, life course, ableism
ISSN:1745-3011
1501-7419
1745-3011
DOI:10.16993/sjdr.710