Contention I: Ablenationalist Imaginaries
USAID is framing assistance to Disabled Organizations (DPOs) through a medical model—This stigmatizes the disabled as deviant bodies in need of a Cure
Albert 2004 [“Is disability really on the development agenda? A review of official disability policies of the major governmental and international development agencies,” Bill Albert, September 2004 Produced Produced for the Disability Knowledge and Research programme, JP Miller]
An important issue raised by the Finnish and
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relevant lessons from their experience of work on gender
And USAID’s Medical-Humanitarian frame is demonstrated by this policy-maker’s description of The Yemen Association of Landmine Survivors
Freeman 2010 [Laurie, Foreign Affairs Officer for State Dept “Yemen: U.S. Effort Helps Landmine Survivors Realize a Better Tomorrow,” March, 2010 blog.state.gov, JP Miller]
As many as 592 villages located in 19
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explosive remnants of war in the years to come
And Assistance and Media interact to frame Disability as Medical Vulnerability. Your decision must instead imagine engagement with disabled organizations through the lens of experiment and policy alliance.
Goggin 2009 [Goggin, G., Disability, Media, and the Politics of Vulnerability, Asia Pacific Media Educator, 19, 2009, 1-13. JP Miller]
While such advances are certainly praiseworthy, there
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and still hopeful nature of whom we are.
And this Ablenationalist framework projects vulnerability as coming from outside the self—Vacillating between humanitarian assistance and imperial wars of extermination.
Soldatic 2006 [“Disability and Development: A Critical Southern Standpoint on Able-Bodied Masculinity,” Karen Soldatic and Janaka Biyanwila, Graduate School of Education; Organisational and Labour Studies; University of Western Australia, TASA Conference 2006, University of Western Australia & Murdoch University, 4-7 December 2006, JP Miller]
These Northern representations of the 2004 Tsunami illustrate
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standpoint is aimed at deepening politics of impairment.
And ableism operates as master trope illuminating the fundamental tactic of oppression—The naturalization of social inferiority as biological difference.
Siebers 2010 [“Disability Aesthetics” Tom Siebers 2010, JP Miller]
Oppression is the systematic victimization of one group
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time the final frontier of justifiable human inferiority.
Our emotional-ethical complicities pre-determine what we think we can know.
Catastrophic imaginaries erase the complexities of lived reality—
Reducing Middle East geopolitics to unaccountable violence.
Morrissey 2011 [John Morrissey, , Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, “Architects of Empire: The Military–Strategic Studies Complex and the Scripting of US National Security” Antipode Vol. 43, pp 435–470]
In the power–knowledge symmetry of the
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like us, is as urgent as ever .
Theoretical and Emotional Framing of Disability Predetermine Policymaking
Lang 2001 [Raymond Lang. Senior Research Associate at the Overseas Development Group of the University of East Anglia. January 2001. “The Development and Critique of the Social Model of Disability”. Pages 2-3. //fitz.]
The objective of this paper is to provide
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has become a highly emotive and politically charged issue
Thus the plan: United States Federal Government should provide media accessibility tools to Disability Organizations in Yemen.
Contention II: Complex Affinities
Our account risks over-simplifying the complexities of disability in Yemen. Can the critique of Ablenationalism account for Abu-Habib’s story?
Rousso 2003 [Gender and Education for All: The Leap to Equality Education for All: a gender and disability perspective Harilyn Rousso 2003, JP Miller & kirk]
For example, a woman from Yemen reports
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in Egypt and Lebanon (Nagata, 2003).
Or Nohra’s experience…
Some of these cases, however exceptional,
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able to afford a higher education at all.
Grut & Ingstad 2006 [“This is my life – Living with a disability in Yemen: A Qualitative Study,” Lisbet Grut & Benedicte Ingstad, 2006, Sintef Health Research Report, JP Miller]
Academic debates must MAP the nuances of disabled lives against aid policy and systems of oppression, refusing Ablenationalist scholarship framed as avoidance of catastrophe
Snyder & Mitchell 2010 [Introduction: Ablenationalism and the Geo-Politics of Disability Sharon L. Snyder David T. Mitchell Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 4, Number 2, 2010, pp. 113-125, JP Miller]
The historical development of ablenationalism results in the
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of these conflicts can continue to be examined.
These maps of “civil society” and the “state” emerge through complex histories of truth and power
Chamberlain, 2011 [Robert Chamberlain, “Steady Mobbinʼ (OK, youʼre a Goon, but whatʼs a Goon to a Goblin?): Redrawing the Theoretical Map of the Middle East” http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/pdf-files/miniapsa_chamberlain.pdf] A
In his short story, “On Exactitude
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the potential of the Bourdieuzian analysis for contemporary research
Refuse DPO policy framed as the reduction of vulnerability. Instead play off ambivalent experiences caught between social suffering and empowerment—Forming connections amidst fragile moments of communication
Kim 2011 ['Heaven for disabled people': nationalism and international human rights imagery,’ Eunjung Kim, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Online publication date: 17 January 2011, JP Miller]
Responding to the symbolization of disability to represent
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-representations of disabled people around the world.
And Yemen offers a key site for political action— Media assistance provides local DPOs with tools to expand their influence in aid planning processes
Turmusani 2005 [Majid Turmusani (Researcher specializing in disability and development issues. Disability World Issue no. 26 Decemeber - February 2005, JP Miller]
The overwhelming majority of disabled Yemeni, especially
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is important to mainstream disability into development national programs
And Imagine Assistive technology as a mutual processes of Engagement and Encounter—Do NOT reduce the plan to the linear frame of service delivery
Skouge 2007 [“Assistive Technology Supports for Self Determination and Community Inclusion,” Jim Skouge, Ed.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Assistant Professor of assistive technology, The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, volume 3, Issues 1 & 2, 2007 JP Miller]
Assistive Technology is not a linear process of
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the very people about whom the stories tell.
We do NOT have a master plan to solve the “problem” of disability in Yemen - But disengagement from USAID whitewashes your complicity by locking-in frames of Medicalization and development.
Bradley 2005 [Tamsin Bradley. Senior Lecturer at the London Metropolitan University. June 1 2005. “Challenging International Development’s Response to Disability”. GLADNET Collection. Pages 71-72. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/gladnetcollect/317//fitz.]
Yeo and Moore (2003) and Masset
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voices talking about their life experiences and dreams.
And politics emerges through networks of political alliance and mutual vulnerability—Engagement requires experiments in affective communication rather a retreat back into the tower of suspicion.
Terranova 2004 [“Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age,” Tiziana Terranova, 2004, JP Miller]
It is not simply a matter here of
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– the constituent terrain of the contemporary politics of