Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 991-1004 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Disability and Society |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 29 Jul 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
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- disability
- citizenship
- society
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Disabled people as counterfeit citizens: the politics of resentment past and present. / Hughes, Bill.
In: Disability and Society, Vol. 30, No. 7, 2015, p. 991-1004.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Disabled people as counterfeit citizens: the politics of resentment past and present
AU - Hughes, Bill
N1 - Journal requires 18m embargo until Feb 2017. Set statement taken from publisher green OA webpage. ET 30-11-15
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In this article I argue that disabled people in the United Kingdom have been tipped into an abyss of counterfeit citizenship. They have been smeared as ‘false mendicants’ – an old trick well documented in the historical archives of ableism. Neoliberalism has used this repertoire of invalidation – its noxious taint of cunning and fraud – as the ‘moral justification’ for welfare reform and for the pillory and notoriety into which the entire disabled community has been placed. Austerity – through the neoliberal politics of resentment – has made disabled people its scapegoat. I argue that a historical precedent for the contemporary demonisation of disabled people as counterfeit citizens can be found in the early modern period in the mythology of the ‘sturdy beggar’.
AB - In this article I argue that disabled people in the United Kingdom have been tipped into an abyss of counterfeit citizenship. They have been smeared as ‘false mendicants’ – an old trick well documented in the historical archives of ableism. Neoliberalism has used this repertoire of invalidation – its noxious taint of cunning and fraud – as the ‘moral justification’ for welfare reform and for the pillory and notoriety into which the entire disabled community has been placed. Austerity – through the neoliberal politics of resentment – has made disabled people its scapegoat. I argue that a historical precedent for the contemporary demonisation of disabled people as counterfeit citizens can be found in the early modern period in the mythology of the ‘sturdy beggar’.
KW - disability
KW - citizenship
KW - society
U2 - 10.1080/09687599.2015.1066664
DO - 10.1080/09687599.2015.1066664
M3 - Article
VL - 30
SP - 991
EP - 1004
JO - Disability and Society
JF - Disability and Society
SN - 0968-7599
IS - 7
ER -