Vulnerable Bodies by Floris Tomasini

Author:Floris Tomasini
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137318992
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

4Put simply, individual impairment is understood as if it were disability. What Oliver is pointing out is a ‘category mistake,’ that is, a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to one category are presented as if they belong to a different category.

5That is, it is a reification, a way of treating abstract notions as if they are real events or entities.

6Brenan Gleeson in Geographies of Disability (1999) gives a more empirically grounded account to Oliver’s theoretical meta-narrative. Gleeson researched the reality of life for people with physical impairments in feudal England and selected industrial cities in the UK (and Australia), providing an ‘embodied historical geographical materialism.’ This brings the body back into Marxist materialist perspective, where prior to that it had been overlooked.

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