Living between borderlands: discovering a sense of nomadic subjectivity throughout Rosa's life story

Abstract

In this paper, we will intersect the disciplinary characters of gender studies and disability studies in order to tackle taken-for-granted discourses which objectify women with ‘learning difficulties’. We will draw attention to ongoing debates about the impairment/disability divide which we expose to insights from poststructuralist feminism(s), with the aim of bringing the body-and-mind-in-process back into the socio-political project of disability studies. We will investigate the life story of Rosa, a single mother with ‘learning difficulties’, and explore the notion of nomadic subjectivity, borrowed from the poststructuralist thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and from the poststructuralist feminist philosopher Rosi Braidotti for its new political process ontology. In line with feminist nomadic inquiries, we will try to identify possible sites and strategies of resistance towards the politics of bio-power by addressing the ways that Rosa stands and moves in a web of oppressive discourses and practices. ‘Living between borderlands’ obviously allows her to open up new life worlds: she transforms and reconfigures her self situated in a multiplicity of shifting contexts wherein differentiated dimensions of time, space and relationality are all important.

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