Disability Advocacy & Ableism: Towards a re-discovery of the disability Imagination

Plain English version:  Keynote Address for the 2nd Strengthening Advocacy Conference in Melbourne 17 - 18 November 2009.

Campbell, F.A.K. (2009). Geodisability Knowledges - Watching for Global North Impositions, Development Bulletin, 73, 48-63.

This is a cut-down version of  a much longer & complex paper.

Campbell, F.K. (2009 ). ‘Disability, Legal Mobilisation and the Challenges of Capacity Building in Sri Lanka’, in Marshall, C, E. Kendall & R Gover (Eds). Disability: Insights from Across Fields and Around the World, Volume III, Praeger Press, pp. 111-128.

This is a Proof copy.

Campbell, F.K (2008). Exploring internalised Ableism using critical race theory, Disability & Society, 23 (2): 151 – 162.

Selling the Cochlear Implant

Transgressing Noncrossable Borders: disability, law, schooling, and nations

Bernadette Baker & Fiona Campbell

Litigation Neurosis: Pathological responses or rational subversion?

Citation: (2005) Disability Studies Quarterly, Fall, 25(4). [Online version]

Abstract:
Medico-legal literature frequently refers to instances where people with disabilities in the process of undertaking injury related civil litigation acquire what has been rather crudely referred to as 'litigation neurosis'. Proponents of this pathology argue that the quest for compensation generates malingering. Litigants might remain ‘sick’ because of the ‘rewards’ they are given or are likely to obtain by remaining hyper-disabled by the compensation system. This article discusses the meanings given to such responses and suggests that an alternative reading of 'litigation neurosis’: as a highly rational act of resistance towards a system that views disablement in a reductionist way, a system that reinforces the notion of disability as personal tragedy. As part of negotiating welfare and legal systems that enumerate disability in terms of deficiency and pathology, tacit knowledges about responses to the government of disability, reveal that disabled people are highly skilled in ‘recripping’ or ‘decripping' themselves to satify eligibility criteria as well as the expected performances of ableism.  

Keywords:

Legal discourse, compensation neurosis, disabled identities, biomedicalism, injury management, disability resistance.  

Campbell, F.A.K. (2004). The Case of Clint Hallam's Wayward Hand: Print media Representations of the 'Unco-operative' Patient', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, September, 9(3): 447 – 462.

Campbell, F. (1999). ‘Refleshingly Disabled’: Interrogations into the Corporeality of 'Disablised' Bodies. Australian Feminist Law Journal 12 March: 57 - 80.

Campbell, F.A.K. (2005). Long Reigneth the Otterly Test: Genealogy and Sri Lankan Burghers in a 'postcolonial' world. The Australian Feminist Law Journal, 22: 89 – 105.

Campbell, F.K. (2008). Refusing Able(ness): A Preliminary Conversation about Ableism, M/C - Media and Culture, 11(3), -‘able’. (Jul. 2008). 03 Jul. 2008 <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/46>.

Campbell, F. (1984). Access to Community Health Care Services for Women with Disabilities. Australian Disability Review: (1) 30-33.

Campbell, F.K. (2009 ). ‘States of Exceptionality: Provisional Disability, its mitigation and citizenship’, in Marshall, C, E. Kendall & R Gover (Eds). Disability: Insights from Across Fields and Around the World, Volume III, Praeger Press, pp.273 - 284.

This is a Proof copy. Plain English versions

Campbell, Fiona. (1985). Social Change for What?: Strategies for Self-Reliance and Independent Living. Keynote Paper, in Heath, J. (Ed). The Adelaide Experience: Report of the First Asia/Pacific Regional Convention of Disabled Peoples’ International, Adelaide, Australia, November 1984, Adelaide: Disabled Peoples’ International (Australia), pp. 91 – 98.

This paper was written by myself in 1985 - I did not have a university education. I had been doing small contract work at a disability resource centre, volunteer work and also I did a short spate at a sheltered workshop. I am in the process of  doing a 20 year dialogue with that paper that I will eventually submit to a journal.There are certainly utopic sentiments in the text!

Campbell, F.A.K. (2001). Inciting Legal Fictions: 'Disability's date with Ontology and the Ableist Body of the Law', Griffith Law Review, 10(1): 42 – 62.

An earlier version/modified in 2005 in Tremain 'Foucault & the Govt of Disability'. Chapter is also on this site.

Campbell, F.A.K. (2005). ‘Legislating Disability: Negative Ontologies and the Government of Legal Identities’, in S. Tremain (Ed). Foucault and the Government of Disability, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 108 – 130.

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