Critical studies of dis/ablism have shown how the ability/disability binary operates as a central apparatus in the production of the ‘human’ (Campbell 2008; Goodley 2014): and thus, the non-human, the less-than-human, and liminal and devalued forms of humanity (Butler 1993). This process can be understood through the mutually constitutive relationship between ableism and disablism. The term disablism, whose genealogy can be traced to the British disabled people’s movement...
