Whitburn, Ben (2014) The indelible ink of the special stamp: an insider’s research essay on imprints and erasures. Disability & Society, 29 (4), 624-637. (doi:10.1080/09687599.2013.844097).
Abstract
The medical profession ascribes otherness to people with disabilities through diagnosis and expertism, which sets in motion discursive power s that oversee their exclusion through schooling and beyond. In this p aper, I present a narrative pieced together from personal experiences of ducking and weaving the deficit discourse in ‘inclusive’ ; education, when seeking employment and in day-to-day family interact ion as a person with severely impaired vision. This work builds on pre vious qualitative research I conducted in Queensland, Australia with a group of young people with impaired vision who attended an inclusive secondary school. I frame this discussion using Foucault’s conce ption of normalising judgement against the hegemony of normalcy, and c onsider that inclusion for people with disabilities is reminiscent of a haunting. Through this analysis, I demonstrate how my ideology is fo rmed, and how it in turn shapes a research agenda geared toward seekin g greater inclusion for young people with disabilities in schools.
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