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"Presenting a cartographic journey into the world of the production(s) of disability, this book examines embodiment, transhumanism, subjectivity, technology and jurisprudence. It concerns matters of order/disorder and the normal and pathological, and explores the way stories about wholeness, health, enhancement and perfection are told"--Provided by publisher

Cosmopolitanism, desire and the contracting of social relationships are enduring themes in both philosophy and social theory. In this paper I seek to explore these themes in order to ascertain what they might mean to disabled people and the ethos of ableism more generally. Modern Westernized life has since the Industrial Revolution been sited in cities fostering the growth of urban culture and an ethos of cosmopolitanism (Agamben, 2009; Beck, 2002; Cheah, 2006). The cosmopolitan outlook has become the signifier of that which is developed, advanced and civilized in society. The liberal project of the melting pot, of social tolerance is cast against the backdrop of city life (Brown, 2006). The paper will first examine the trope of cosmopolitanism and disability including the place of 'spaces' for marginal peoples. Second, it will provide a perspective on the disabled flâneur (Campbell, 2009; Simmel, 1908; Young, 2005) who ambivalently claims 'outsider-insidedness' and finally the paper moves to consider the significant question of social inclusion and the government of aversion through the deployment of discourses of tolerance.

Cosmopolitanism, desire and the contracting of social relationships are enduring themes in both philosophy and social theory. In this paper I seek to explore these themes in order to ascertain what they might mean to disabled people and the ethos of ableism more generally. Modern Westernized life has since the Industrial Revolution been sited in cities fostering the growth of urban culture and an ethos of cosmopolitanism (Agamben, 2009; Beck, 2002; Cheah, 2006). The cosmopolitan outlook has become the signifier of that which is developed, advanced and civilized in society. The liberal project of the melting pot, of social tolerance is cast against the backdrop of city life (Brown, 2006). The paper will first examine the trope of cosmopolitanism and disability including the place of 'spaces' for marginal peoples. Second, it will provide a perspective on the disabled flâneur (Campbell, 2009; Simmel, 1908; Young, 2005) who ambivalently claims 'outsider-insidedness' and finally the paper moves to consider the significant question of social inclusion and the government of aversion through the deployment of discourses of tolerance.

Medico-legal literature frequently refers to instances where people with disabilities in the process of undertaking injury related civil litigation acquire what has been rather crudely referred to as "litigation neurosis". Proponents of this pathology argue that the quest for compensation generates malingering. Litigants might remain "sick" because of the "rewards" they are given or are likely to obtain by remaining hyper-disabled by the compensation system. This article discusses the meanings given to such responses and suggests that an alternative reading of "litigation neurosis": as a highly rational act of resistance towards a system that views disablement in a reductionist way, a system that reinforces the notion of disability as personal tragedy. As part of negotiating welfare and legal systems that enumerate disability in terms of deficiency and pathology, tacit knowledges about responses to the government of disability, reveal that disabled people are highly skilled in "recripping" or "decripping" themselves to satify eligibility criteria as well as the expected performances of ableism.

Medico-legal literature frequently refers to instances where people with disabilities in the process of undertaking injury related civil litigation acquire what has been rather crudely referred to as "litigation neurosis". Proponents of this pathology argue that the quest for compensation generates malingering. Litigants might remain "sick" because of the "rewards" they are given or are likely to obtain by remaining hyper-disabled by the compensation system. This article discusses the meanings given to such responses and suggests that an alternative reading of "litigation neurosis": as a highly rational act of resistance towards a system that views disablement in a reductionist way, a system that reinforces the notion of disability as personal tragedy. As part of negotiating welfare and legal systems that enumerate disability in terms of deficiency and pathology, tacit knowledges about responses to the government of disability, reveal that disabled people are highly skilled in "recripping" or "decripping" themselves to satify eligibility criteria as well as the expected performances of ableism.