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ablenationalism

Syllables: able·na·tion·al·i·sm/ˌeɪ.bəlˈnaʃ.ə.nəˌlɪz.əm/

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Australia/ˌæɪ.bəlˈnæʃ.ə.nəˌlɪz.əm/

ablenationalism noun: the attitude that considers the qualifications of citizenship to be such that people with disabilities are exceptions.

Noun

ablenationalism (uncountable)

  1. The attitude that considers the qualifications of citizenship to be such that people with disabilities are exceptions.
    • The historical development of ablenationalism results in the modern formation of disability as a discrete, sociological minority. In order to locate people with disabilities under market capitalism one must often look beyond the margins of surplus labor to those classified as “deserving poor” by...2010, Sharon L. Snyder, David T. Mitchell, “Introduction: Ablenationalism and the Geo-politics of Disability”, in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, volume 4, number 2, Liverpool...
    • [O]ur analyses seek to explore the strange agencies that neoliberalism has set into motion under the banner of ablenationalism: first in a discussion of a backlash against the homogenizing implications of universal disability access design in cities and national monuments addressed by the...2015, David T. Mitchell, with Sharon L. Snyder, “Introduction”, in The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan...

Examples of ablenationalism in a sentence

  • The historical development of ablenationalism results in the modern formation of disability as a discrete, sociological minority.2010, Sharon L. Snyder, David T. Mitchell, “Introduction: Ablenationalism and the Geo-politics of Disability”, in Journal of Literary and...
  • A disability analytic reveals how ableism and ablenationalism are central to the design of care infrastructures and policy.2023, Laura Mauldin, “Disability, Ableism, and Care during COIVD-19 in the United States”, in Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, Kim Price-Glynn...

Origin of ablenationalism

From able + nationalism, modelled after homonationalism. The word was coined by Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell in a 2010 journal article: see the quotation.

Questions about ablenationalism

What does ablenationalism mean?
Ablenationalism means the attitude that considers the qualifications of citizenship to be such that people with disabilities are exceptions.
How do you use ablenationalism in a sentence?
The historical development of ablenationalism results in the modern formation of disability as a discrete, sociological minority.
What part of speech is ablenationalism?
Ablenationalism is a noun.
How do you pronounce ablenationalism?
Ablenationalism is pronounced /ˌeɪ.bəlˈnaʃ.ə.nəˌlɪz.əm/ (UK).

Words near ablenationalism in the dictionary

  1. ableists
  2. Ableman
  3. Ablemans
  4. ablemost
  5. ablen
  6. ablenationalism
  7. ablenationalist
  8. ableness
  9. ablenesses
  10. ablenormative
  11. ablenormativity

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