Against Social Isolation Disability Metaphors and Personal Battles

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Zarana Maheshwary
Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar

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Disability, social distancing, isolation

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic has brought about change in the structures and categories of discursive production, while at the same time has successfully retained the institutionalized difference between bodies, gender, class, caste, and race. This article attempts to understand how the “deviant body” continues to be the marker of one’s disability despite experiences felt collectively as a result of disabling circumstances caused by COVID-19.

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Jan 10, 2021

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Issue
Vol. 16 No. 2-4 (2020): Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, Volume 16, Issues 2-4 Summer-Winter 2020
Section
Global Perspective on Disability Studies
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Author Biography

Zarana Maheshwary, Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar

Assistant Professor, Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar