ablenationalism

English

Etymology

able +‎ nationalism. Coined in 2010 by S.L. Snyder and D.T. Mitchell in their article Introduction: Ablenationalism and the geo-politics of disability, published in the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability.

Noun

ablenationalism (uncountable)

1. The attitude that considers the qualifications of citizenship to be such that people with disabilities are exceptions.
   • 2015, David T. Mitchell, ‎Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 21:

     While we neither refute nor endorse this contention of arrival at a more inclusive postmodernity, our analyses seek to explore the strange agencies that neoliberalism has set into motion under the banner of ablenationalism: first in a discussion of a backlash against the homogenizing implications of universal disability access design in cities and national monuments addressed by the contemporary European art theorist Paul Virilio, and in the complaints about paving over U.S. national parklands by American desert environmentalist Edward Abbey.

   • 2023, Shelley Lynn Tremain, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, page 1936:

     Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim."

   • 2023, Mignon Duffy, ‎ Amy Armenia, ‎ Kim Price-Glynn, From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change:

     A disability analytic reveals how ableism and ablenationalism are central to the design of care infrastructures and policy. Ablenationalism is one of the reasons disabled people are far more likely to be institutionalized in some way than nondisabled people, whether in a nursing home, a rehabilitation center, a smaller congregate care setting, and so on.