Austerity Fictions: Disability, Class and Resistance in Twenty-First Century British

我对当代英国节俭中的残疾和阶级的表现感兴趣，这源于之前在文化残疾研究领域的研究。在我的本科论文《走向残疾的进步表征：挑战常态和能力主义》和研究硕士论文《通过当代文化叙事挑战能力主义对残疾和治疗的认知》中，我通过《残疾视角》分析了文本(Davidson，2006，第126页)，探索了各种错误表征与嵌入的能力主义者假设的相互作用，并绘制了走向残疾进步表征的可能性图表。在此基础上，我认为文学和电影为抵制能力主义和提供替代表征创造了一个平台。正如米切尔和斯奈德在他们的基本文本叙事假体中所写的那样，文学可以是“一个独特的空间，用来思考身体和认知差异的复杂性，而这些差异几乎是所有其他话语空间所没有的”(2000，第166页)。按照我之前的方法，我打算分析当代残疾的表现，同时接触残疾人生活的社会和政治背景。在2008年全球金融危机后实施了十年的紧缩之后，这项研究是对公共服务和福利改革的系统性攻击的必要回应，这些改革导致了英国数以百万计的残疾人的贫困和死亡。在《危机时代：残疾、全球化和抵抗》一书中，Robert McRuer写道：大多数关于紧缩的研究(...)都没有注意到残疾对全球紧缩政治的中心地位，也没有注意到残疾可能成为理解和抵制这种政治的场所(...)(2018年，第13页)。我希望通过特别关注英国来弥补当前理解中的这一差距，英国自21世纪初以来一直是“紧缩的起点”(McRuer，2018年，第24页)。

My interest in contemporary representations of disability and class in austerity Britainhas stemmed from previous research in the field of cultural disability studies. In myundergraduate dissertation Towards a progressive representation of disability:challenging normalcy and ableism, and research masters thesis Challenging ableistperceptions of disability and cure through contemporary cultural narratives, Ianalysed texts through a 'disability optic' (Davidson, 2006, p.126), exploring themyriad ways misrepresentation interacts with embedded ableist assumptions andcharting the possibilities of moving towards a progressive representation of disability.Building on this, I argued that literature and film creates a platform for resistingableism and providing alternative representations. As Mitchel and Snyder write intheir foundational text Narrative Prosthesis, literature can be 'a unique space forcontemplating the complexity of physical and cognitive differences that is absentfrom nearly every other discursive space' (2000, p.166).In line with my previous approach, I intend to analyse contemporaryrepresentations of disability whilst engaging with the social and political context inwhich disabled people live. After a decade of austerity, imposed in the wake of the2008 global financial crisis, this research is a necessary response to the systematicattack on public services and welfare reforms that has lead to poverty and death formillions of disabled people living in Britain. In Crip Times: Disability, Globalisation,and Resistance, Robert McRuer writes that 'most studies of austerity (...) have notedneither disability's centrality to a global austerity politics nor the nuanced ways (...)that disability might serve as a site from which to understand and resist that politics'(2018, p.13). I hope to address this gap in the current understanding with a particularfocus on the UK, which has been 'ground zero for austerity since the early 2000s'(McRuer, 2018, p.24).