Review of "Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance" by Robert McRuer (NYU Press)
In his new book <i>Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance,</i> Robert McRuer offers his notion of "crip time" as an analytic through which we may critique the spatio-temporalities of austerity, late capitalism, and the cultural logic of neoliberalism. McRuer’s po...
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| description | In his new book <i>Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance,</i> Robert McRuer offers his notion of "crip time" as an analytic through which we may critique the spatio-temporalities of austerity, late capitalism, and the cultural logic of neoliberalism. McRuer’s position is that disability is at the core of a global politics of austerity and of neoliberalism. What does it mean that disability is central to a global politics of austerity? For McRuer, it means that thinking about austerity through "crip time" can highlight an ongoing politics of representation of disability. That is, neoliberalism actively produces certain ways of being disabled that are conducive to its continued operation. But, "crip time" points to the ways in which this politics of representation does not fully capture disability. Disability exceeds austerity and neoliberalism. <i>Crip Times</i>, then, offers a critical examination of how disability is represented within the cultural logic of neoliberalism. At the same time, McRuer cautions against, as some past projects in disability and queer theory have done, fully rejecting or embracing the politics of identity, representation, and rights. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a2d3bf13be64e9fa2465aba4b8f57ce2022-12-22T01:19:19ZengCultural Studies AssociationLateral2469-40532020-01-019110.25158/L9.1.12Review of "Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance" by Robert McRuer (NYU Press)Caroline Alphin0Radford UniversityIn his new book <i>Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance,</i> Robert McRuer offers his notion of "crip time" as an analytic through which we may critique the spatio-temporalities of austerity, late capitalism, and the cultural logic of neoliberalism. McRuer’s position is that disability is at the core of a global politics of austerity and of neoliberalism. What does it mean that disability is central to a global politics of austerity? For McRuer, it means that thinking about austerity through "crip time" can highlight an ongoing politics of representation of disability. That is, neoliberalism actively produces certain ways of being disabled that are conducive to its continued operation. But, "crip time" points to the ways in which this politics of representation does not fully capture disability. Disability exceeds austerity and neoliberalism. <i>Crip Times</i>, then, offers a critical examination of how disability is represented within the cultural logic of neoliberalism. At the same time, McRuer cautions against, as some past projects in disability and queer theory have done, fully rejecting or embracing the politics of identity, representation, and rights.https://doi.org/10.25158/L9.1.12austeritydisability studiesresistanceglobalizationneoliberalism |
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