PT Journal
AU Kolarova, K
TI (Ne)prizpusobeni krizi, nezpusobili obcanstvi? "Postizeni" a "rasa" v diskursech krize
SO Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research
PY 2014
BP 48
EP 60
VL 15
IS 2
DI 10.13060/12130028.2014.15.2.130
DE crisis; post-political; intersectional feminist theory; dis/ability; race; discourses of (mal)adjustment; social welfare
AB Interrogating the austerity measures introduced by the Czech government under the Prime Ministry of Petr Necas (2010-2013), this essay wishes to highlight the importance of the translations of the political into the registry of morality, which Chantal Mouffe identifies as features of post-politics, for (re)establishment of social hierarchies and inequalities based in difference. In particular, I demonstrate the strategic importance of "disability" and the racialised concept of "maladaptation" for such post-political reformulations of the political and normative outlines of abled citizenship. After mapping out the ideological deployment of the idea of crisis for the ethics of austerity, the essay concludes by posing questions about possible limits and drawbacks of relying upon crisis as a trope of intersectional feminist critique.
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