Contrasting Political Ontologies of Neurodiversity in High-Concussion-Risk Rural Cultures

Authors

  • Dan Clegg University of British Columbia
  • Samuel D. Rocha University of British Columbia

Keywords:

politics, ontology, rural, neurodiversity, concussion

Abstract

In this paper we will integrate two models of political ontology (Blaser, 2009; Rocha, 2015) with the concept of neurodiversity (Fenton & Krahn, 2007; Glannon, 2007a, 2007b) to produce an analysis that we will apply to the case of high-concussion-risk rural cultures. This will show that there are hidden culturally imperial hazards in the medicalization of socially constructed norms of health (Illich, 2001), and that groups with members of differing, but culturally syntonic, neurologies possess equal-but-different functionality as healthy human people.

Author Biographies

Dan Clegg, University of British Columbia

Dan Clegg is a doctoral student in Counseling and Psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Samuel D. Rocha, University of British Columbia

Samuel D. Rocha is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of British Columbia.

Published

2018-12-11

Issue

Section

Cultural Studies and Curriculum