Back to Normal? Reclaiming Productive Citizenship - A Familiar Conversation

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Sheena Brown

Keywords

motherhood, citizenship, rights

Abstract

“I don’t want to be a burden!” is a statement that finds itself at the centre of familiar relationships between social actors as well as in structural relationships that frame disability and normalcy.  A mother and daughter respond back, challenging its meaning as a nuanced articulation to demand citizenship rights.

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