Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the eighty-ninth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Philosophy, Disability, and the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic
Despite what governments of the world with their bottom-Iines want us to believe, the pandemic rages on. The WHO reports that COVID-positivity rates have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks. Fifty-three countries in the European-Central Asian region reported nearly 3 million new cases last week, with nearly 3,000 deaths each of the last […]
Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic
If you were away from your computer early in the New Year, you may have missed my previous post about the special issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies on this theme that I guest edited. The issue, which is open access, includes my introduction to the issue and my article on philosophy of […]
Introduction to the Forthcoming Special Issue on Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic
I’m very pleased that the special issue of The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies that I’ve guest edited on the theme Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic will be published in a few weeks. The issue includes articles by Johnathan Flowers; Gabriela Arguedas; Sara M. Bergstresser; Elvis Imafidon; Suze G. Berkhout, Lindsey MacGillivray, […]
The Carceral Character of Nursing Homes and How Eugenics in Canada is MAiD
This post comprises an excerpt from my article “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex in Canada,” which is forthcoming in Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, a special issue of The International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies of which I am guest editor. Additional posts about nursing homes and about MAiD […]
Some of Your Favourite BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Posts of 2020
By popular demand, I once again present you with a list of some of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY’s most read/listened to posts of the past year. The year was memorable in a host of heart-wrenching ways, many of which our blog captured. In 2020, you wanted more of: January: Notes on Khader’s Decolonizing Universalism and the Problematization […]
Bramble, Pandemic Ethics, the Nursing Home-Industrial Complex, and the Scope of Mainstream Philosophy
This post comprises a comment that I contributed to the discussion at PEA Soup of Ben Bramble’s Pandemic Ethics. Bramble’s book, which is open access, online here, was discussed across three PEA Soup posts. My comment below appears on the third of these posts. I wanted to point out what I regard as a grave […]
Philosophy, The Apparatus of Disability, and the #EugenicsSyllabus Project
In the fifth chapter of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, I argue that bioethics is a strategy of modern eugenics. In earlier articles—such as “Reproductive Freedom, Self-Regulation, and the Government of Impairment In Utero” and “Biopower, Styles of Reasoning, and What’s Still Missing From the Stem Cell Debates”—I pointed out ways in which the […]
CFA: Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic (deadline: Jul. 15, 2020)
Call for Abstracts for a special issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies on the theme of Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic Guest editor: Shelley Tremain, Ph.D. This notice cordially invites abstracts for a special issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies (IJCDS) whose theme will be Philosophies of Disability and […]
Beyond “High-Risk”: Statement on Disability and Campus Re-openings
Accessible Campus Action Alliance Jump to: The Issues Beyond the “High-risk” Framework for Accommodations Best Practices for Campus Re-Openings Prioritizing Relations of Care The Issues As scholars of disability, health equity, institutional policy and inclusion; as disabled faculty who have spent careers negotiating legal and institutional processes of accommodation; and as allies committed to uplifting […]
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