The Productive Citizen: Marx, Cultural Time, and Disability

This paper argues for analyzing the systematic invisibility of persons living with disabilities by temporalizing their oppression within a framework of “productive time,” which I posit as a normative sense of time by which cultural products and practices appear within capitalist economies. I argue t...

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Published in:Stance (Muncie, Ind.) Ind.), 2019-09, Vol.7 (1), p.51-58
Main Author: Pass, Lauren
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:This paper argues for analyzing the systematic invisibility of persons living with disabilities by temporalizing their oppression within a framework of “productive time,” which I posit as a normative sense of time by which cultural products and practices appear within capitalist economies. I argue that productive time is employed in cultural evaluations of actions that render persons with disabilities as “non-productive agents” who cannot partake in historical processes. My hope is that a theory of productive time will assist social justice efforts in analyzing the oppression of particular minority groups by identifying and combating harmful social values.
ISSN:1943-1899
1943-1899
DOI:10.33043/S.7.1.51-58