For the May MDN session, please join us for an informal, ‘reading group’ style discussion. We will be discussing Chapter Eight from Bob Williams-Findlay's book 'Disability Praxis', published in November 2023. This event is open to MDN members only (who are on the mailing list). Please check your inbox for information regarding the publication selected … Continue reading May 2024 – Reading Group session
April 2024 – Roddy Slorach: A Very Capitalist Condition (re-launched book)
Discussion with the author of A Very Capitalist Condition: A History and Politics of Disability (updated and re-published with Bookmarks in January 2024) on 16th April 2024 at 6.30pm BST. From Bookmarks' website: "In a wide-ranging critique, updated with a new introduction, Roddy Slorach describes how capitalist society segregates and marginalises disabled people, turning our minds … Continue reading April 2024 – Roddy Slorach: A Very Capitalist Condition (re-launched book)
March 2024 – Reading Group session
For the March MDN session, please join us for an informal, 'reading group' style discussion. This event is open to MDN members only (who are on the mailing list). Please check your inbox for information regarding the publication selected for discussion.
February 2024 – Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Tuesday 6th February 6.30pm – 8.00pm GMT The Marxism and Disability Network Presents a Book Launch for Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, published by Pluto Press. Join our mailing list for the Zoom link! 'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most oppressive tools … Continue reading February 2024 – Robert Chapman: Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
January 2024 – Bob Williams-Findlay: Disability Praxis: The Body As a Site of Struggle
Discussion with the author of Disability Praxis (published with Pluto Press in November 2023) on 9th January 2024 at 6.30pm GMT. A discount code for purchasing the book will be shared with the event's attendees. https://youtu.be/iMUlQk2iS-E?si=CgI6X9Cw7tUJH_Je Video recording of the event From Pluto Press' website: 'The rise of the extreme right globally, the crisis of … Continue reading January 2024 – Bob Williams-Findlay: Disability Praxis: The Body As a Site of Struggle
November 2023 – Georgia van Toorn and Karen Soldatić: Disability, Racism, and the Spectre of Eugenics in Digital Welfare
Abstract This paper explores the historical ties between the digital welfare state and eugenics, highlighting how the use of data infrastructures for classification and governance in the digital era has roots in eugenic data practices and ideologies. Through an analysis of three domains of automated decision-making – child welfare, immigration, and disability benefits – the … Continue reading November 2023 – Georgia van Toorn and Karen Soldatić: Disability, Racism, and the Spectre of Eugenics in Digital Welfare
October 2023 – Sabine Fernandes and Rachel da Silveira Gorman: Care as white property: A Marxist intervention into disability care work and feminist global care chain discourses
Disability Studies argues that care is coercive for disabled people. Feminists argue that care work is coercive for women. Erevelles (2011) asserts that both disability and care work need to be analyzed dialectically under transnational capitalism. Erevelles (2011) and Gorman (2016) pave the path to frame the relationship between care recipients and care providers dialectically … Continue reading October 2023 – Sabine Fernandes and Rachel da Silveira Gorman: Care as white property: A Marxist intervention into disability care work and feminist global care chain discourses
September 2023 – Scott Ritchie: Holding Mad Kids in Community: Resisting Capitalism’s Disabling Processes in a Primary Grades Classroom
Primary and secondary education under capitalism serves as an ideological apparatus to construct productive workers who will participate in the extractive economy and consent to their own exploitation. However, some school children are marked as deficient, impaired, disabled, and mad - incapable of being good workers who facilitate capitalist accumulation. Just as capital banishes incapacitated … Continue reading September 2023 – Scott Ritchie: Holding Mad Kids in Community: Resisting Capitalism’s Disabling Processes in a Primary Grades Classroom
HM & MDN YouTube Channel launch || Discussion on the centrality of disablement subjectivation to the reproduction of capitalist social relations (Ioana Cerasella Chis)
When: Sunday, 3rd September, 2pmWhere: online - register here.As part of the celebration of the relaunch of Historical Materialism's YouTube site which includes the MDN playlist of monthly talks, HM present a presentation from the Marxism Disability Network. Ioana Cerasella Chis will initiate a discussion on her recent paper - The centrality of disablement subjectivation … Continue reading HM & MDN YouTube Channel launch || Discussion on the centrality of disablement subjectivation to the reproduction of capitalist social relations (Ioana Cerasella Chis)
July 2023 – Aaron Jaffe: Social Reproduction Theory, ‘Disability’, and the Reification of Labor Power
Social Reproduction Theory analyzes the production and reproduction of labor powers, noting not just the gendered labor that goes into their (re)production, but the form that such powers are constrained to take when the commodity-form dominates social relations. When labor powers are commodified, those who can more easily develop and actualize powers fit for exploitation … Continue reading July 2023 – Aaron Jaffe: Social Reproduction Theory, ‘Disability’, and the Reification of Labor Power
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