Three Dimensions in the Register of Shame
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Keywords
Swiss Disability Insurance, shame, vocational rehabilitation
Abstract
This article highlights the ways in which people with disabilities who have recently been involved in programs set up by the Swiss compulsory Disability Insurance (DI) refer to the register of shame in their discourse. It pinpoints three dimensions of this register: social position, social judgment and mirror-effect and shows that while referrals to shame do not constitute a direct challenge of ableist hierarchies, they do displace the meanings attached to disability.
Three Dimensions in the Register of Shame by Jean-Pierre Tabin, Monika Piecek, Céline Perrin, & Isabelle Probst is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at https://rdsjournal.org. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.rds.hawaii.edu.
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Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Doubleday.
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Goodley, D., Lawthom, R., & Runswick-Cole, K. (2014). Dis/ability and austerity: Beyond work and slow death. Disability & Society, 29(6), 980–984.
Goodley, D., Liddiard, K., & Runswick-Cole, K. (2018). Feeling disability: Theories of affect and critical disability studies. Disability & Society, 33(2), 197–217.
Gorton, K. (2007). Theorizing emotion and affect: Feminist engagements. Feminist Theory, 8(3), 333–348.
Hughes, B. (2015). Disabled people as counterfeit citizens: The politics of resentment past and present. Disability & Society, 30(7), 991–1004.
Jenny, J. (1995). Rapports sociaux de sexe et autres rapports de dominance sociale: pour une intégration conceptuelle des rapports sociaux fondamentaux. Cahiers du GEDISST, 13, 109–130.
Lordon, F. (2013). La société des affects. Pour un structuralisme des passions. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
Loveday, V. (2016). Embodying deficiency through “affective practice”: Shame, relationality, and the lived experience of social class and gender in higher education. Sociology, 50(6), 1140–1155.
Mitchell, D. T., & Snyder, S. L. (Eds.) (2000). The body and physical difference. Discourses of Disability. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Moore, A. (2016). Shame on you: The role of shame, disgust and humiliation in media representations of “gender-fraud” cases. Sociological Research Online, 21(2), 1–18.
Munt, S. R. (2008). Queer attachments, the cultural politics of shame. Aldershot: Ashgate.
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Pires, A. (1997). Échantillonnage et recherche qualitative: essai théorique et méthodologique. In J. Poupart, J.-P. Deslauriers, L.-H. Groulx, A. Laperrière, R. Mayer, & A. Pires (Eds.), La recherche qualitative. Enjeux épistémologiques et méthodologiques (pp. 113–169). Montréal: Gaëtan Morin.
Probst, I., Tabin, J.-P., & Courvoisier, N. (2015). De la réparation à la réversibilité. Un nouveau paradigme dans l’assurance invalidité? Revue Suisse de Sociologie, 41(1), 101–117.
Probst, I., Tabin, J.-P., Piecek-Riondel, M., & Perrin, C. (2016). L’invalidité: une position dominée. Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, 4(8), 89–105.
Probyn, E. (2005). Blush: Faces of shame. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Reeve, D. (2012). Psycho-emotional disablism: The missing link? In N. Watson, A. Roulstone, & C. Thomas (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (pp. 78–92). London and New York: Routledge.
Sassier, P. (1990). Du bon usage des pauvres, histoire d’un thème politique, XVIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Fayard.
Scheff, T. (2000). Shame and the social bond: A sociological theory. Sociological Theory, 18(1), 84–99.
Sedgwick, E. K. (1993). Queer performativity: Henry James’s the art of the novel. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1(1), 1–16.
Shildrick, M. (2002). Embodying the monster: Encounters with the vulnerable self. London: Sage.
Siebers, T. (2004). Disability as masquerade. Literature and Medicine, 23(1), 1–22.
Siebers, T. (2011). Disability theory. Ann Harbor: The University of Michigan Press
Skeggs, B. (1997). Formations of class & gender: Becoming respectable. London: Sage.
Skeggs, B. (2004). Class, self, culture. London and New York: Routledge.
Stiker, H.-J. (2005). Corps infirmes et sociétés: essais d’anthropologie historique. Paris: Dunod.
Tabin, J.-P., Frauenfelder, A., Togni, C., & Keller, V. (2010). Temps d’assistance. Le gouvernement des pauvres en Suisse romande depuis la fin du XIXe siècle. Lausanne: Antipodes.
Tabin, J.-P., & Perriard, A. (2014). Le rapport social d’âge dans les politiques sociales. Revue Interrogations, 19.
Titchkosky, T. (2001). Disability: A Rose by Any Other Name? “People-First” Language in Canadian Society. Canadian Review of Sociology, 38/2, 125–140.
Walker, R. (2014). The Shame of Poverty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Weiss, K. G. (2010). Too ashamed to report: Deconstructing the shame of sexual victimization. Feminist Criminology, 5(3), 286–310.
Yates, S., & Roulstone, A. (2013). Social policy and transitions to training and work for disabled young people in the United Kingdom: Neo-liberalism for better and for worse ? Disability & Society, 28(4), 456–470.
Young, I. M. (2003). Autonomy, welfare reform and meaningful Work. In E. F. Kittay & E. K. Feder (Eds.), The Subject of Care. Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (pp. 40–60). Lanham: Rowman Littlefield.
Baker, H. (2013). The significance of shame in the lives of women who experience male violence. Liverpool Law Review, 34, 145–171.
Barrett, T. (2018). Bourdieu, hysteresis, and shame: Spinal cord injury and the gendered habitus. Men and Masculinities, 21(1), 35–55.
Biddle, J. (1997). Shame. Australian Feminist Studies, 12(26), 227–239.
Bourdieu, P. (2000). Pascalian meditations. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (2001). Masculine domination. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Bourdieu, P. (2014). On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989–1992. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Bourdieu, P., & Delsaut, Y. (1975). Le couturier et sa griffe: Contribution à une théorie de la magie. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 1(1), 7–36.
Campbell, F. K. (2008). Exploring internalised ableism using critical race theory. Disability & Society, 23(2), 151–162.
Campbell, F. K. (2009). Contours of ableism. The production of disability and abledness. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Castel, R. (2003). From manual workers to wage laborers: Transformation of the social question. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction.
Chase, E., & Walker, R. (2013). The co-construction of shame in the context of poverty: Beyond a threat to the social bond. Sociology, 47(4), 739–754.
Clough, P. T., & Halley, J. (Eds.). (2007). The affective turn: Theorizing the social. Durham: Duke University Press.
Conseil fédéral. (2017). Révision de la loi fédérale sur la partie générale du droit des assurances sociales (LPGA). Rapport explicatif relatif à l’ouverture de la procédure de consultation. Retrieved from www.bsv.admin.ch/bsv/fr/home/publications-et-services/gesetzgebung/vernehmlassungen/revision-atsg.html
Cooper, H. (2016). Passing or trespassing? Unseen disability, containment and the politics of “feeling like a fraud” in a neoliberal bureaucracy. In R. Mallett, C. A. Ogden, & J. Slater (Eds.), Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane: Precarious Positions (pp. 120–143). Chester: University of Chester Press.
Creed, D., Hudson, A., Okhuysen, G. A., & Smith-Crowe, K. (2014). Swimming in a sea of shame: Incorporating emotion into explanations of institutional reproduction and change. Academy of Management Review, 39(3), 275–301.
Davis, L. J. (1995). Enforcing normalcy: Disability, deafness, and the body. London: Verso.
de Gaulejac, V. (1996). Les sources de la honte. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer.
Despland, B. (2012). L’obligation de diminuer le dommage en cas d’atteinte à la santé. Son application aux prestations en espèces dans l’assurance-maladie et l’assurance-invalidité, Analyse sous l’angle du droit d’être entendu. Genève-Zurich-Bâle: Schultess.
Despret, V. (2005). Ces émotions qui nous fabriquent. Ethnopsychologie de l’authenticité. Paris: Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond/Le Seuil.
Disability Pride Zurich. (n.d.). Retrieved on May 24, 2018 from http://disability-pride.ch
Driessens, K. (2010). La relation entre intervenants sociaux et personnes vivant dans la pauvreté. Affronter l’exclusion et la dépendance. Pensée plurielle, 25(3), 91–105.
Federal Statistical Office. (2019). Retrieved August 7, 2019, from https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/fr/home/statistiques/travail-remuneration/activite-professionnelle-temps-travail/personnes-actives/taux-activite.assetdetail.8226404.html
Ferreira, C., & Frauenfelder, A. (2007). “Y en a qui abusent…”. Identifier, gérer et expertiser des ayants droit de la politique sociale. Carnets de bord en sciences humaines, 13, 3–6.
Fraser, N., & Gordon, L. (1994). A Genealogy of dependency: Tracing a keyword of the U.S. welfare state. Signs, 19(2), 309–336.
Fullagar, S. (2003). Wasted lives. The Social dynamics of shame and youth suicide. Journal of Sociology, 39(3), 291–307.
Geremek, B. (1987). La potence ou la pitié. L’Europe et les pauvres du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Paris: Gallimard.
Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. New Brunswick and London: Aldine Transaction.
Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. New York: Doubleday.
Goodley, D. (2014). Dis/ability studies: Theorising disablism and ableism. London: Routledge.
Goodley, D., Lawthom, R., & Runswick-Cole, K. (2014). Dis/ability and austerity: Beyond work and slow death. Disability & Society, 29(6), 980–984.
Goodley, D., Liddiard, K., & Runswick-Cole, K. (2018). Feeling disability: Theories of affect and critical disability studies. Disability & Society, 33(2), 197–217.
Gorton, K. (2007). Theorizing emotion and affect: Feminist engagements. Feminist Theory, 8(3), 333–348.
Hughes, B. (2015). Disabled people as counterfeit citizens: The politics of resentment past and present. Disability & Society, 30(7), 991–1004.
Jenny, J. (1995). Rapports sociaux de sexe et autres rapports de dominance sociale: pour une intégration conceptuelle des rapports sociaux fondamentaux. Cahiers du GEDISST, 13, 109–130.
Lordon, F. (2013). La société des affects. Pour un structuralisme des passions. Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
Loveday, V. (2016). Embodying deficiency through “affective practice”: Shame, relationality, and the lived experience of social class and gender in higher education. Sociology, 50(6), 1140–1155.
Mitchell, D. T., & Snyder, S. L. (Eds.) (2000). The body and physical difference. Discourses of Disability. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Moore, A. (2016). Shame on you: The role of shame, disgust and humiliation in media representations of “gender-fraud” cases. Sociological Research Online, 21(2), 1–18.
Munt, S. R. (2008). Queer attachments, the cultural politics of shame. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (2009). Sickness, Disability and Work. Keeping on Track in the Economic Downturn. Retrieved from www.oecd.org/els/emp/42699911.pdf
Parker Harris, S., Owen, R., Fisher, K. R., & Gould, R. (2014). Human rights and neoliberalism in Australian welfare to work policy: Experiences and perceptions of people with disabilities and disability stakeholders. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(4).
Perriard, A. (2017). Les figures de la dépendance problématique des adultes: analyse intersectionnelle des politiques sociales liées à l’âge et à l’emploi dans le canton de Vaud (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://serval.unil.ch/notice/serval:BIB_24217351A7FB
Pires, A. (1997). Échantillonnage et recherche qualitative: essai théorique et méthodologique. In J. Poupart, J.-P. Deslauriers, L.-H. Groulx, A. Laperrière, R. Mayer, & A. Pires (Eds.), La recherche qualitative. Enjeux épistémologiques et méthodologiques (pp. 113–169). Montréal: Gaëtan Morin.
Probst, I., Tabin, J.-P., & Courvoisier, N. (2015). De la réparation à la réversibilité. Un nouveau paradigme dans l’assurance invalidité? Revue Suisse de Sociologie, 41(1), 101–117.
Probst, I., Tabin, J.-P., Piecek-Riondel, M., & Perrin, C. (2016). L’invalidité: une position dominée. Revue Française des Affaires Sociales, 4(8), 89–105.
Probyn, E. (2005). Blush: Faces of shame. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Reeve, D. (2012). Psycho-emotional disablism: The missing link? In N. Watson, A. Roulstone, & C. Thomas (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (pp. 78–92). London and New York: Routledge.
Sassier, P. (1990). Du bon usage des pauvres, histoire d’un thème politique, XVIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Fayard.
Scheff, T. (2000). Shame and the social bond: A sociological theory. Sociological Theory, 18(1), 84–99.
Sedgwick, E. K. (1993). Queer performativity: Henry James’s the art of the novel. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1(1), 1–16.
Shildrick, M. (2002). Embodying the monster: Encounters with the vulnerable self. London: Sage.
Siebers, T. (2004). Disability as masquerade. Literature and Medicine, 23(1), 1–22.
Siebers, T. (2011). Disability theory. Ann Harbor: The University of Michigan Press
Skeggs, B. (1997). Formations of class & gender: Becoming respectable. London: Sage.
Skeggs, B. (2004). Class, self, culture. London and New York: Routledge.
Stiker, H.-J. (2005). Corps infirmes et sociétés: essais d’anthropologie historique. Paris: Dunod.
Tabin, J.-P., Frauenfelder, A., Togni, C., & Keller, V. (2010). Temps d’assistance. Le gouvernement des pauvres en Suisse romande depuis la fin du XIXe siècle. Lausanne: Antipodes.
Tabin, J.-P., & Perriard, A. (2014). Le rapport social d’âge dans les politiques sociales. Revue Interrogations, 19.
Titchkosky, T. (2001). Disability: A Rose by Any Other Name? “People-First” Language in Canadian Society. Canadian Review of Sociology, 38/2, 125–140.
Walker, R. (2014). The Shame of Poverty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Weiss, K. G. (2010). Too ashamed to report: Deconstructing the shame of sexual victimization. Feminist Criminology, 5(3), 286–310.
Yates, S., & Roulstone, A. (2013). Social policy and transitions to training and work for disabled young people in the United Kingdom: Neo-liberalism for better and for worse ? Disability & Society, 28(4), 456–470.
Young, I. M. (2003). Autonomy, welfare reform and meaningful Work. In E. F. Kittay & E. K. Feder (Eds.), The Subject of Care. Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (pp. 40–60). Lanham: Rowman Littlefield.
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Author Biographies
Jean-Pierre Tabin, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and NCCR LIVES, Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives, Switzerland
Jean-Pierre Tabin is full professor of social policy at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and member of the NCCR LIVES, Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives. His research interests include (dis)ability, poverty policies, unemployment insurance, social assistance, etc.
Monika Piecek, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and University of Geneva, Switzerland
Monika Piecek is Ph.D. student at the Geneva School of Social Sciences of the University of Geneva, and scientific collaborator at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO). Her research explores Swiss disability policy from an intersectional perspective.
Céline Perrin, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
Céline Perrin is a social scientist. She has been working as a scientific collaborator at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO) since 2008. She is also a longstanding member of the editorial committee of Nouvelles Questions Féministes. She has conducted research on homophobia, care and sport with a gender perspective, and she is currently working on disability social policies.
Isabelle Probst, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
Isabelle Probst is associate professor in social psychology at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO). Her research interests include (dis)ability, workplace accidents, occupational diseases, protection of pregnant women at work, etc.