The Dis/ability Complex

Diversity studies have much to gain from the interdisciplinary field of critical studies. The dis/ability complex acknowledges the mutually socio-political practices associated with the conceptual co-constitution disability and ability. Simultaneously, the dis/ability complex that in order for disablism to be reproduced it requires its hidden to be present; namely, ableism. Disability all to often appears in our psyche as a problem of body or mind, as an object of rehabilitative or intervention. Ability, meanwhile, is posited as an idealized marker successful citizenship. In this paper I foreground the dis/ability complex a guiding subject through which to think a number of important individual collective processes including labour, emotion, learning, technology, the anthroposcene. I conclude that all of these intersectional of engagement significantly benefit from an engagement with the dis/ complex.