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Niklas Altermark

Niklas Altermark

Docent

Niklas Altermark

Visualizing the included subject : photography, progress narratives and intellectual disability

Författare

  • Niklas Altermark
  • Emil Edenborg

Summary, in English

By examining photographic depictions of subjects labeled as ‘intellectually disabled’, this article theorizes how photography performs the ideological function of producing narratives of historical progression. Recurrent representations of, on the one hand, a dark past of state institutionalization and repression and, on the other hand, the present as a time when intellectually disabled people are active, included and happy, function to locate oppression in a bygone era, which effectively obscures how power has transformed rather than disappeared. This relates to how the narrative break between the past exclusion and present inclusion conceals an inherent paradox in the constitution of intellectually disabled subjectivity; at the same time, members of this group are both included by citizenship and classified as lacking the necessary characteristics of the ideal citizen.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2018-12

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

287-302

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Subjectivity

Volym

11

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Palgrave Macmillan

Ämne

  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)

Nyckelord

  • Disability
  • Disability studies
  • Historical narratives
  • Narrative
  • Visibility

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1755-6341