Abstract

Crip studies emerged at the beginning of 2000s in the U.S. academic context. Rooted in queer studies and intersectional feminism, crip scholars elaborate a critical perspective on disability which connects it to issues of sexuality, gender, race, class. Instead of focusing merely on disability as a specific experience of humanity, crip studies move the focus on able-bodiedness as a system of expectations, rules and social control which operates together with heteronormativity in the definition of “normal bodies”.

In this seminar, we will discuss how crip studies offer challenging insights on topics such as sexual citizenship, embodiments and normativity. In doing so, we will explore how these perspectives interrogate mainstream views on humanity and human rights and how a crip epistemology can serve as a lens to deconstruct and reconstruct embodied citizenship. The interventions draw on three PhD empirical researches that use crip studies and feminist disability studies in the fields of sexuality, gender and education.
 

Programme

- Cripping citizenship: conversations about bodies and boundaries.
Gustavo Santos Elpes, PhD Candidate in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies, CES-UC

- Dangerous discourses: sexual dissidence, chronic illness and grey areas of humanity
Mara Pieri, PhD Candidate in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies, CES-UC

- Bodies which do not fit: reflections on a crippled inclusive education
Molise de Bem Magnabosco, PhD Candidate in Psychology, at São Paulo State University (Unesp), Campus of Assis, Brazil

This Open Seminar is conducted within the Course Theories and Politics of Human Rights, as part of CES Doctoral programme Human Rights in Contemporary Societies