Uncertain subjects: disabled women on B.C. income support

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dc.contributor.authorKimpson, Sally Agnes
dc.contributor.supervisorPurkis, Mary Ellen
dc.contributor.supervisorOberg, Antoinette A.
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-15T22:23:54Z
dc.date.available2015-12-15T22:23:54Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-12-15
dc.degree.departmentInterdisciplinary Graduate Program
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Nursing
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractWith an explicit focus on how power is enacted and what this produces in the everyday lives of chronically ill women living on B.C. disability income support (BC Benefits), this research is located at the contested juxtaposition of what I refer to as three fields of possibility; feminism, poststructuralism and critical disability studies. Each of these fields suggests methodological, empirical and interpretive readings that enable me to produce different knowledge, differently, about disabled women’s lives. Using verbatim narrative accounts from in-depth interviews focused on how each of four participants live their lives, take care of themselves, and make sense of and respond to the government policy and practices to which they are subject, reveals everyday, embodied practices of the self that constitute their subjectivities as disabled women. Together, these accounts along with critically interpretive reflections reveal/expose/make visible the lives of these women in response to exercises of power in ways that unseat, unsettle and disrupt taken-for-granted understandings of those who are disabled, female and poor. Along with explicating power relations in the lives of disabled women and what these produce, I also link these critically to their health, socio-economic well-being and citizenship, while creating a disruptive reading that destabilizes common-sense notions about disabled women securing B.C. provincial income support benefits. Thus my research purposes and those of my disability activism are melded as these intersect within the (often-contested) borders of poststructural and social justice terrain. Despite public claims by the B. C. government to foster the independence, participation in community and citizenship of disabled people in B.C., the intersection of government policy and practices and how they are read and taken up by the women, produce profound uncertainty in their lives, such that these women become uncertain subjects. Living poorly, they experience structural poverty, compromised well-being and “dis-citizenship” (Devlin & Pothier, 2006), all inconvenient facts reflecting a marked disjuncture between how government programs are publicly represented and their strategic effects.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationKimpson, S.A. (2000). Embodied activism: Constructing a transgressive self. Disability Studies Quarterly, 20 (3), 319-325.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationKimpson, S. A. (2005). Stepping off the road: A narrative (of) inquiry. In L. Brown & S. Strega (Eds.), Research as resistance: Critical, indigenous and anti-oppressive approaches (pp. 73-96). Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholar’s Press/The Women’s Press.en_US
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationKimpson, S. A. (2010). Living poorly: Disabled women on income support. In D. Driedger (Ed.), Living the edges: A disabled women’s reader (pp. 138-152). Toronto, ON: Inanna Press.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6926
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectdisabled women and povertyen_US
dc.subjectdisabled women and institutional power relationsen_US
dc.subjectdisabled women's citizenshipen_US
dc.subjectdisabled women's embodimenten_US
dc.subjectdisabled women's socioeconomic well-beingen_US
dc.subjectdisabled women's subjectivityen_US
dc.subjectcritical disability studiesen_US
dc.subjectgovernmentalityen_US
dc.subjectfeminist poststructuralismen_US
dc.subjectFoucault and disabilityen_US
dc.subjectdisability income support policyen_US
dc.titleUncertain subjects: disabled women on B.C. income supporten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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