Possible and Disability

Disability oftentimes tends to be associated with misfortune, personal tragedy, passivity, and dependency. However, a closer look at the actual history of the disabled people’s movement and disability studies reveals stories of imagining disability and therefore societies differently. The lineage of envisioning the world through the prism of the possible (rather than impossible) is not complete without including the theorization and politicization of disability – that in the past few decades has gained intellectual momentum. In the following paragraphs, we map the most critical turning points in those academic and activist developments.