Disability, disease and gifts: a field study report on disabled teenagers
ZHENG Sheng-Xun (Translated by Mon WONG)
ABSTRACT Focusing on disabled teenagers living in a community where the underprivileged and impoverished population gathered, this paper explores, through re-examining their conditions of living and their survival strategies, the liberating possibility of notions such as “disease” and “craziness.” By emphasizing how the underprivileged resists against becoming the imagination of the intellectual class, the article attempt to complicate and differentiate the acts of “caring” and further imagine the possibilities of other discourses and resistances.
Keywords: disabled, underprivileged, bad subject, gift, caring
Note on the contributor
ZHENG Sheng-Xun (also known as CHENG Sheng Hsun) 鄭聖勳 (1978-2016) was an art editor and an assistant professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Chongqing University, China. His creative works can be seen in publications such as the literary magazine Fleurs des lettres (Hong Kong) and the newspaper Ming Pao (Hong Kong).
Note on the translator
Mon WONG is a freelance translator.