An Archeology of Disability: Contemplating on the Subjecthood of Students With Disability Across the Time Scales

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 1:15 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Multimodal Approaches to Engaging the Perspectives and Experiences of Disabled Young People (Table 26)

Abstract

Disability is an inescapable human phenomenon. Despite being researched and talked about for centuries, individuals with disability are continuously perceived as lacking and inferior. In education, students with disability have been described as unruly subjects who need to be fixed. Using critical posthumanism, this project contemplates on the static subjecthood of individuals/students with disability across the timescales in the ancient and modern Indonesia context. This presentation invites disability scholars to examine taken-for-granted notion of Human and its implication toward the subjecthood construction of student/individual with disability.

Author

• Wisnu Agung Pradana, National University of Singapore