Category Disability Politics
Wednesday 24th April, 2024 The present talk is a work in progress which will be part of my upcoming volume titled Decolonial Disability and Social Epistemologies. Its purpose is to interrogate the meaning of Marx’s famous aphorism: to everyone according… Continue Reading →
Interventions into Disability Politics, 20th November 2024 In 1999, the American radio speaker Thom Hartmann proposed to explain the origin of ADHD as an “evolutionary mismatch”: ADHD people would be characterised by “pre-modern minds”, fit for hunter-gatherer societies and unfit… Continue Reading →
27th March 2025 Kirstie Stage: Bridging the gap between Trade Unionism and the Disabled People’s Movement Deaf and disabled organisers have long been part of and contributed to the efforts of the British Labour Movement, notably through organisations such as… Continue Reading →
9th October, 2024 My PhD research focuses on the legacies of oppression embedded within participatory practices and their role in perpetuating the subjugation and discrimination of marginalised communities. I argue that a philosophical shift in the understanding of what constitutes… Continue Reading →
11th September 2024 This presentation critically reflects on disability selective abortion under UK law, arguing that the current legislative framework is disability discriminatory according to UN standards. This is because, under the UK law, a scale of severity of disability… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 29th May, 2024 In order to justify the adoption of harsh and unnecessary austerity measures, which were introduced without ethical approval, the Coalition administration elected in 2010 vehemently challenged the integrity of the chronically ill and disabled community and… Continue Reading →
Radical Disability Politics A Global Dialogue 7th June 2024, 10:00-18:30, Zoom This event is free, and all sessions will include BSL interpretation and live captions Disablement structures contemporary societies; both as grounds (and barriers) to welfare provision, and as… Continue Reading →
Interventions in Disability Politics, 7th June 2023. The UK asylum system includes multiple restrictions that limit access to the services and support needed for physical and emotional health and wellbeing. At different stages in an asylum claim, people are systematically… Continue Reading →
10 May 2023 online Arianna Introna In their The Productive Body François Guéry and Didier Deleule examine as central to the socialization of the labor-power contained in the biological body the mediation of what they call ‘the productive body’ (Guéry and… Continue Reading →
12th April, 2023 This presentation is based on my recently finished research project called “Work without bosses, homes without landlords, and nothing about us without us: Researching disabled people’s involvement in co-operatives in the UK”. This research found notable synergies… Continue Reading →
Identity, Work, and The Centrality of Disablement to the Reproduction of Capitalist Social Relations
29th March 2023 online Ioana Cerasella Chis This talk presents a series of arguments developed through the qualitative research project called ‘The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work in the UK’. In the first part of the talk, I build… Continue Reading →
CAPPE is delighted to announce and introduce its new annual Undergraduate Dissertation Prize of £200, awarded to an outstanding dissertation, final project or performance, from any discipline across the University of Brighton, which speaks to our priority themes for the… Continue Reading →
8 February 2023 online Lucy Burke This talk will explore the complex entanglement of new reproductive technologies, genetics, health economics, rights-based discourses and ethical considerations of the value of human life with particular reference to representations of Down’s syndrome and… Continue Reading →
18 January 2023 online It has been over 30 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed, but it has only been within the last decade that disabled Latinxs are becoming more visible and demanding disability justice. According… Continue Reading →
CAPPE 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference 8th, 9th, 10th September 2024 Over the past decade, the cumulative brutalities of various crises, austerity measures and organised abandonment through the Covid-19 pandemic, have pushed disabled people and activists in many parts of the world to re-assess… Continue Reading →
Call for Papers – In the Shadow of ‘Eugenic Thinking’: Legacies of Eugenics in the UK A Joint CAPPE and CMNH one-day Symposium 3rd May, 9.30am-5.30pm, Room tbc Online and in-person This symposium will bring together… Continue Reading →
14 December 2022 online Ellen Clifford Disabled people in the UK have been subjected to brutal, targeted attacks by government since 2010, largely concealed from the public through spin, lies and strategic U-turns. In 2016 the UN found the UK… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 16th November 2022 Luke Beesley, ‘Decades of Defeat: Militancy and Self-Organisation after the Disabled People’s Movement’. While no disabled militant saw the New Labour period as an unadulterated golden age, the consensus in Britain’s Disabled People’s Movement (DPM)… Continue Reading →
7 February 2022 Workshop: The Politics of Disability and Research Accessibility With Luke Beesley This workshop will be run as a hybrid event, with colleagues able to ‘call in’ from home if that’s where they need to be. This workshop welcomes… Continue Reading →
