An autoethnographic analysis of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability intersecting in the construction and categorization of subject positions in a personal narrative
department or school: Health and Social Development, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Hendricks, Ryan
issued: 2019-03-07T16:48:23Z
issued: 2019
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Over the last century, critical social theorists have contested the naturalization and normalization of birth, life, illness, and death. Critical social theorists have suggested that these biological processes deeply entwine with social, political, and economic systems of thought. In my dissertation, I explored my experiences of disability in relation to the discursive frameworks of white supremacy, patriarchal masculinity, neoliberalism, heterosexism and disability. To facilitate this exploration, I brought together discourse analysis, evocative autoethnography, and intracategorical analysis. Emerging from this exploration, I suggested that the normative discursive frameworks of white supremacy, patriarchal masculinity, neoliberalism, heterosexism, and disability construct discourses that dispossess Indigenous peoples, people of colour, women, disabled people, and LGBTQ subject positions of their claims of belonging. Simultaneously, these discursive frameworks produce discourses that assimilate dispossessed subject positions into alternative categories of interest and investment belonging at the fringe of neoliberal society. In this discursive space, normative discursive frameworks construct a hierarchy of belonging. Through diffuse speech acts that produce ‘blended spaces’, normative discursive frameworks categorize subject positions along an axis of oppression and privilege. Through sychronic, spatial, hierarchical relationships, normative discursive frameworks make claims over the conditions necessary to sustain human life. This is life enabled by politics.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/68505
note: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND ABILITY INTERSECTING IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND CATEGORIZATION OF SUBJECT POSITIONS IN A PERSONAL NARRATIVE by Ryan Hendricks A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) March 2019 © Ryan Hendricks, 2019 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF RACE, CLASS, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND ABILITY INTERSECTING IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND CATEGORIZATION OF SUBJECT POSITIONS IN A PERSONAL NARRATIVE submitted by Ryan Hendricks in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Dr. Rachelle Hole, Faculty of Health and Social Development Supervisor Dr. Lawrence Berg, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Stephanie Bryson, Portland State University Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Allison Hargreaves, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University Examiner Dr. David Butz, Brock University External Examiner iii Abstract Over the last century, critical social theorists have contested the naturalization and normalization of birth, life, illness, and death. Critical social theorists have suggested that these biological processes deeply entwine with social, political, and economic systems of thought. In my dissertation, I explored my experiences of disability in relation to the discursive frameworks of white supremacy, patriarchal masculinity, neoliberalism, heterosexism and disability. To facilitate this exploration, I brought together discourse analysis, evocative autoethnography, and intracategorical analysis. Emerging from this exploration, I suggested that the normative discursive frameworks of white supremacy, patriarchal masculinity, neolibe…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2019-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0376662
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/68505