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  • Disability Studies
  • Social Sciences
  • Environmental Health

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  • Disability Studies (DS) critiques social models of disability, sometimes limiting the understanding of impairment.
  • Current definitions of impairment in DS focus on biological limitations and social rejection.
  • There's a need to move beyond social constructivist views of disability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a more dynamic definition of disability materiality.
  • To explore how disability materiality can be understood as adaptation and active engagement.
  • To challenge simplistic conceptions of socially rejected biologies.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of disability theory.
  • Critique of existing definitions of impairment within Disability Studies.
  • Theoretical proposal for a "lively" definition of disability materiality.

Main Results:

  • Impairment is currently framed as a limit point in DS, refusing pathologization but hindering active engagement with materiality.
  • Disability materiality, including ecological toxicities, offers switch-points for corporeal navigation.
  • Existing definitions of impairment are limiting expressions of non-normative bodies.

Conclusions:

  • A "lively" definition of disability materiality is needed to understand disability as adaptation.
  • Theorizing active ideas of materiality extends disability concepts beyond social constructivism.
  • Engaging with disability materiality fosters creative corporeal navigation and interaction with environments.