Contemporary Theory, Poststructuralism & Governmentality
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- Member of AARE
- No
- Research interests
- My research examines the social and ethical dimensions of disability, rehabilitation and community care and is particularly focused on the effects of technologies on the lives of disabled children and younger adults. Completed projects have examined the lives and identities of young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in relation to their socio-spatial environments and the discourses of disability, masculinity, and technology. Other areas of interest include examining how models of “consumer-directed care” are enacted in supportive housing environments; policy assumptions regarding what counts as an “adequate” home environment for younger disabled adults; and the social values that underpin children’s rehabilitation practices and mobility decisions.
- Key theorists used
- Bourdieu
Deleuze
- Publications
- Gibson BE, Zitzelsberger H, McKeever P. (2009) “Futureless” persons: Shifting life expectancies and the vicissitudes of progressive illness, Sociology of Health and Illness, 31 (4)
Gibson B.E., Young N.L., Upshur, R.E.G, McKeever, P. (2007) Men on the margin: A Bourdieusian examination of living into adulthood with muscular dystrophy, Social Science and Medicine. 65: 505–517
Gibson B.E., Upshur, R.E.G, Young N.L., McKeever, P. (2007) Disability, technology and place: social and ethical implications of long-term dependency on medical devices, Ethics, Place & Environment. 10(1): 7-28
Gibson B.E. (2006) Disability, connectivity and transgressing the autonomous body. Journal of Medical Humanities. 27:187–196
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