Assemblage analysis of disability support
Ad hoc practices of disability support by local elites in the global south is constantly applauded for its poverty alleviation potentials, yet it conceals the pressures disabled persons face to access support. By embedding with network of Disabled People Organisation (DPO), attending disability supp...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/alterjdr, |
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| Autors principals: | , |
| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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2023
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Ad hoc practices of disability support by local elites in the global south is constantly applauded for its poverty alleviation potentials, yet it conceals the pressures disabled persons face to access support. By embedding with network of Disabled People Organisation (DPO), attending disability support events, and conversing with policy makers, we gathered qualitative data to conduct assemblage analysis of disability support in Southeast Nigeria. Adapting Deleuze and Guattari’s (2004) ontology, complemented by Tim Ingold’s (2011) “world of materials,” we map out the entities that constitute disability support, and how these entities work together to structure the experience and discourses of disability support in the region. The results indicate that practices of disability support are not altruistic. At the scene of disability support events, the path of benefactors and beneficiaries constantly intersect as part of an assemblage in their ongoing flows of becoming. To conceptualise disability support as a disinterested pre-occupation of a philanthropist aiming to elevate the quality-of-life disabled people is a dominant narrative that is yet to receive a critical re-evaluation. We conclude that it is more productive to re-frame disability support in terms of assemblage of disparate forces, and practices of becoming. |
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