‘Wellbeing’ and the production of disability in the university: Erasure, effacement and institutional exceptionalism

IF 0.8 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Vivienne Orchard, Eleanor K Jones
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This article uses ‘wellbeing’ as deployed within UK higher education as a starting point for examining the relationship between disability and the university. We explore various strands of scholarship that seek to critique wellbeing, universities, and/or connections between disability and these institutions. Work on ‘wellbeing’ identifies the harmful logics underpinning its political appropriation, but erases disability by declining to consider it as political experience. Critiques of the university efface disability by considering disablement only insofar as it affects the non-disabled, and reify ‘intellect’ as neutral entity and sole true purview of higher education. Work on the political economy of disability exposes crucial connections between disability and capitalism, and the role of economic and political institutions in upholding them, but relies on a distinction between worker and surplus that cannot reckon with institutional complexity. Finally, scholarship that directly confronts the university as disabling institution accounts for complexity, but hinges on an ultimately utopian vision of the university as an exceptional, salvageable space, neglecting key mechanisms by which it continues to marginalise disabled people. We suggest that reaching a fuller understanding of the university as producing disability must involve moving away from this exceptionalism and toward dialogue with critiques of other institutions.
大学中的 "福祉 "与残疾问题:抹杀、消除和机构例外论
本文以英国高等教育中的 "福祉 "为出发点,探讨残疾与大学之间的关系。我们探讨了试图批判 "福祉"、大学和/或残疾与这些机构之间关系的各种学术研究。关于 "福祉 "的研究指出了其政治占有背后的有害逻辑,但却拒绝将残疾视为政治经验,从而抹杀了残疾。对大学的批判只考虑残疾对非残疾者的影响,从而抹杀了残疾,并将 "智力 "作为中立的实体和高等教育的唯一真正范围。有关残疾政治经济学的研究揭示了残疾与资本主义之间的重要联系,以及经济和政治体制在维护这些联系中的作用,但这种研究依赖于工人与剩余之间的区别,无法考虑到体制的复杂性。最后,直接面对大学这一致残机构的学术研究考虑到了复杂性,但其最终依赖于一种乌托邦式的愿景,即大学是一个特殊的、可拯救的空间,忽视了大学继续边缘化残障人士的关键机制。我们建议,要更全面地理解大学是残疾的制造者,就必须摒弃这种例外论,转而与对其他机构的批判进行对话。
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Power and Education
Power and Education Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science
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