'Grandpa lives in paradise now': Biological precarity and global economy of debility

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F15%3A10296436" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/15:10296436 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.feminist-review.com" target="_blank" >http://www.feminist-review.com</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.2015.45" target="_blank" >10.1057/fr.2015.45</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

'Grandpa lives in paradise now': Biological precarity and global economy of debility

Original language description

This paper examines the relations and the tensions between debility and disability in global contexts defined by complex forms of bio-social precarity. My focus is Baan Kamlangchay, in Thailand, a care-home providing care for older people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease from the global North. I treat Baan Kamlangchay as one concrete example of emerging circuits of transnational care/reproductive labour in order to investigate the interrelations between disability and wider global biopolitical inequalities. Using the concept of biolegitimacy, I discuss the power dynamics in the relationships between the racialised and gendered care-workers in the centre and (white) disabled residents. I argue that debility, understood as the flexible gradation ofdis/ability and in/capacity, allows us to better understand these novel forms of embodied precarity and their political implications in a global context.

Czech name

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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

<a href="/en/project/GA13-18411S" target="_blank" >GA13-18411S: Biological citizenship: forms of governance and resistance to biomedical knowledge in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Feminist Review

ISSN

0141-7789

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

111

Issue of the periodical within the volume

November

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

75-87

UT code for WoS article

000364728300006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84946845248