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

• Published in: Scandinavian journal of disability research : SJDR Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 35 - 38
• Main Authors: Ljuslinder, Karin, Ellis, Katie, Vikström, Lotta
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...