Read Puar, Jasbir K. 2017. The Right to Maim. Durham. Duke University Press. Chapter 2 “Crip Nationalism: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism”. 63–94.
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Over the course of Chapter 2, the idea of the state power’s used as a tool of control is re-emphasized. In this case it is “Crip Nationalism”, a concept which, as it is explained, intertwines and links the identity of a nation with the previously known concept of disability. However, one of the ideas that has struck me most is that it is disability itself which promotes this lack of privilege and differentiation between classes, and likewise turns out that some forms of disability are now being considered more “privileged”. Moreover, there is also a distribution between disability as an accident and debilitation due to war, for example, which is still in force and affects the rights of these people. Again I find very interesting too, the perspective that is also put forward on how including black people with disabilities in these studies considers racialization as a debility’s process. That is to say, I consider that the body is not more able or not because it is black, white, and so on, nevertheless, racism infers very much as a weakening and is a legitimate factor which promotes that formerly preconceived idea of being less because of your skin’s color and in addition I quote an example from the text “the loss of able-bodied whiteness”.
Thus, the biopolitics disability’s purpose is the incorporation of disabilities at the expense of other, less recognized forms of disability that is to say, neoliberal policies of exclusion that manifest racial, class, gender, etc. In this way, the biopolitics of debilitation situates disability as an integrated element in managing people’s lives. Ultimately, neoliberal regimes take advantage from this situation, provoking this biopolitical distribution and creating bodies which are not at 100%.