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Dr. Katherine Runswick-Cole - Working the edges of posthuman disability studies

Video recording of a public talk with Dr. Katherine Runswick-Cole at the School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto on October 21, 2019. This talk is connected to Dr. Runswick-Cole’s work with the Living Life to the Fullest research project. This paper is built upon an assumption: that social theory can be generated through a meaningful engagement with a co‐researcher collective of disabled young people. Our co‐researchers are theoretical provocateurs and theorists in their own right who, through their activism and writing, are challenging us to reconsider the meaning of life, death and disability. Their work has enabled us all to (re)consider the promise and potential of humanist and posthuman epistemologies, theories, methodologies, interventions and activisms. The paper introduces the research, the authors of this paper (academics and co‐researchers) and then explores three layers of analysis that work the edges of posthuman thinking; sovereign and assembled selves; affects and desires; mourning and affirmation. We conclude by asserting that as a research team we are engaging with a DisHuman approach to theory and activism: one that, we hope, has the potential to blend the pragmatics of humanism with posthuman possibilities. Dr. Runswick-Cole is the Chair in Education at The School of Education at the University of Sheffield; her research in critical disability studies is carried out with disabled children and young people as co-researchers and aims to understand and challenge the exclusionary and oppressive practices of ableism.