The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip

Kolářová, Kateřina

doi:https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2014.22

On the Cruel Optimism of Neoliberal Transformations in the Czech Republic

Kolářová, Kateřina

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (2014), 8, (3), 257–274.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2014.22
Language: English
Pages: 18

Abstract

The article proposes a cripistemological reading of post-socialist rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s. It discusses the ways in which disability semantics and ideological structures of compulsory health and able-bodiedness served to fuel the optimism of the first post-revolutionary years, and reveals the ways in which the possibility of crip epistemologies and politicized crip horizons were foreclosed. The example of Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s facilitates a more capacious inquiry into the toxicity of attachments to optimism—an affective politics of positivity more generally, and for disability theory specifically. The article also argues for more intense engagement with disability in theories of neoliberalism and formulates a crip critique of the affective politics of neoliberalism for which Lauren Berlant coined the term "cruel optimism."

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