The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip: On the Cruel Optimism of Neoliberal Transformations in the Czech Republic

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip: On the Cruel Optimism of Neoliberal Transformations in the Czech Republic

Original language description

This text proposes a cripistemology of post-socialist rehabilitation into/through neoliberalism in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s. It discusses the ways in which disability semantics as well as ideological structures of compulsory health and able-bodiedness served to fuel the optimism of the first post-revolutionary years, and reveals the ways in which the possibility of crip epistemologies and politicised crip horizons were foreclosed. The example of Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s facilitates a more capacious inquiry into the toxicity of attachments to optimism-an affective politics of positivity more generally, and for disability theory specifically. The text also speaks to the absence of disability from theories of neoliberalism and formulatesa crip critique of the affective politics of neoliberalism for which Lauren Berlant coined the term "cruel optimism."

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies

ISSN

1757-6458

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

257-274

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