What is it about?
We need to explore the relationship between disability and conflict and understand the structural processes that lead to conflict and disability.
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Why is it important?
Despite thinkers across the theoretical and methodological divides calling for a focus on how disability and impairment are being created in the Global South, there has been very little work on unravelling the structural, social and individual inter-links between conflict and impairment.
Perspectives
We are facing the biggest crisis in forced migration since the second world war and I felt that a lot of questioning of links between neoliberal policy, creation of conflict and disability was missing and urgent.
Dr Maria Berghs
De Montfort University
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This page is a summary of: Radicalising ‘disability’ in conflict and post-conflict situations, Disability & Society, May 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2015.1052044.
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Resources
Disability and displacement in times of conflict: rethinking migration, flows and boundaries
In this paper, I try to understand the changed relationship of conflict to migration as seen through a lens of fluidity and what that entails for disabled people - particularly what boundaries and borders are at stake. Secondly, I investigate migration through the idea of ‘ontological insecurity’ and try and link this to ideas of (dis)/ableism. Then, I attend to what happens when boundaries are enforced in the humanitarianism of a refugee camp, to explain how territoriality of such a setting unmakes people into ‘strangers’. I show how the structural violence of poverty leads to a necessary fluidity and illustrate how people use this to combat the ‘unmaking’ of the self and reinsert themselves back into social life and relationships. Lastly, I examine the place of bio-legal politics in medical humanitarianism and explore the relationship to ‘necropolitics’ and its consequences
Britain after the Blitz: how to rebuild a city fit for a post-conflict
The Conversation
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