Contention One: Ablenationalist Violence
The major Yemeni publication National Yemen presents us with an account of disabilities in Yemen—
National Yemen. Major Yemeni News Publication. January 17 2011. “Yemenis Handicapped By Poor Care, War Lack Aid”. http://nationalyemen.com/2011/01/17/yemenis-handicapped-by-poor-care-war-lack-aid//fitz.
A victim tells … assistance, and treatment.
In response, USAID frames its international assistance to disabled people with a Medical Model. Disability is stigmatized as a deviance to be cured.
Albert ‘6
Bill Albert. Research director at the Disability Knowledge and Research at the University of East Anglia. 2006. “In or Out of the Mainstream? Lessons from Research on Disability and Development Cooperation”. Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds. Pages 11-15. http://www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.3897!offprint_ch1.pdf//fitz.
An important issue … work on gender
As a result of USAID’s Medical Model, U.S. policymakers respond to the Yemeni Association for Landmine Survivors by portraying disability as a burden.
Freeman ‘10
Laurie Freeman. March 1 2010. “Yemen: U.S. Effort Helps Landmine Survivors Realize a Better Tomorrow”. U.S. Department of State Official Blog. http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/yemen_u.s._effort_helps_landmines//fitz.
But survey and …the years to come.
Constructions of vulnerability cause systematic exclusion – transgressive research politicizes understandings of vulnerability that account for universal fragility.
Goggin ‘9
Gerard Goggin. Researcher at the University of New South Wales, Australia. 2009. “Disability, Media, and the Politics of Vulnerability”. Asia Pacific Media Educator 19. Pages 5-11. http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1295&context=apme&sei-redir=1#search=%22Disability%2C%20Media%2C%20Politics%20Vulnerability%22//fitz.
I would agree … whom we are.
This Ablenationalist framework projects vulnerability as coming from outside the self—Vacillating between humanitarian assistance and imperial wars of extermination.
Soldatic ‘6
[“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 … on able-bodied masculinity.
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 ‘11
[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 … urgent as ever .
Treating disability with a Social Model spills over to the broader distribution of resources and services among DPOs and governmental organizations.
Lang ‘1
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. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lc-ccr/lccstaff/raymond-lang/DEVELOPMMENT_AND_CRITIQUE_OF_THE_SOCIAL_MODEL_OF_D.pdf//fitz.
The objective of … politically charged issue.
Thus the plan—
United States Federal Government should substantially increase capacity building for research to Disability Organizations in Yemen
Contention Two: Complex Encounter
The preceding account of ablenationalism risks over-simplifying the complexities of disability in Yemen.
Can the critique of Ablenationalism account for Abu-Habib’s story?
Rousso ‘3 [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 … Lebanon (Nagata, 2003).
Or Nohra’s experience…
Some of these … 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 the avoidance of catastrophe
Snyder and Mitchell ‘10
[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 … to be examined.
These maps of “civil society” and the “state” emerge through complex histories of truth and power
Chamberlain ‘11
[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 … 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 ‘11
['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 … around the world.
Yemen offers a key site for political action—
Media assistance provides local DPOs with tools to expand their influence in aid planning processes
Turmusani ‘5
[Majid Turmusani (Researcher specializing in disability and development issues. Disability World Issue no. 26 Decemeber - February 2005, JP Miller]
The overwhelming majority … into development national
The affirmative offers a radical approach to knowledge about disabilities. Capacity building to foster phenomenological approaches to analysis reveal the complex nature of disabled experiences.
Dubois and Trani ‘9
Jean-Luc Dubois and Jean-François Trani. 2009. Institute of Research for Development at the University of Versailles. Disability and Inclusive Development Centre at the University College of London. “Enlarging the capacity paradigm to address the complexity of disability”. European Journal of Disability Research. Pages 10-11fitz.
To address these …data collection operation.
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 ‘5
[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 … experiences and dreams.
