Elektrine lite

← Feed

@mpe@hcommons.social

2026-09-17 18:41 UTC

@linguacelta@toot.wales I'm totally in agreement with you here, but was recently v interested in the "existential anxiety" model proposed by Harlan Hahn. Please do ignore this (obv) if not interested as I don't want to be That Guy. That is: the problem is that this "it can happen to anyone" means that people see only a deferred threat to their future, mirrored in those with disabilities in their present. 😩 Then, as a result, as Elizabeth F. Emens notes, "The fact that disability could happen to anyone does not, however, mean that nondisabled people will relate to disabled people, or disability rights, with empathy." That's a pretty grim spiral. We can be ignored/minoritised out of indifference or ignored out of fear. Emens, Elizabeth F. ‘Framing Disability’. University of Illinois Law Review, no. 5 (2012): 1383–442. Hahn, Harlan. ‘The Politics of Physical Differences: Disability and Discrimination’. Journal of Social Issues 44, no. 1 (1988): 39–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1988.tb02047.x.

Replies (1)

  • @linguacelta@toot.wales 2026-09-17 18:47

    @mpe@hcommons.social Thank you! I'm always interested in disability theory, and these are new to me. I shall assimilate and digest with enjoyment. I feel like a dragon, hoarding scholarship about whatever currently interests me :)

    Open ##5466398