DEPENDENCY

In Rachel Adams (ed.), KEYWORDS IN DISABILITY STUDIES. NYU PRESS (forthcoming)
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Abstract

Dependency is a keyword in disability studies. The article reviews the negative force of the term and why disability researchers and activists have made the case for the independence of disabled people. But dependency, I claim, is a feature of any human life and I argue that disability studies needs to neutralize the term and appropriate dependency as that which binds people, regardless of their abilities or disabilities. I argue that we can acknowledge dependency and work toward an ideal of "managed dependency."

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Eva Kittay
State University of New York, Stony Brook

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