Conclusion

Abstract

Short overview of the argument and a brief reflection on new directions in disability studies through the lens of vulnerability.

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Project identities may arise from resistance identity, but need to be thought of as something different and distinctive (Castells, 1996). Vulnerably embodied people who wish to create alternative communities to the mainstream are expressive of a project identity that celebrate difference. A project identity is about the freedom to express an alternative alongside a mainstream norm. Resistance identity, by contrast, is caught up within a normative oppositional struggle that it cannot ever fully escape from.

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Floris Tomasini
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Tomasini, F. (2019). Conclusion. In: Vulnerable Bodies. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31899-2_5