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Disability, economic agency, and embodied cognition

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  • Thomas Abrams

    (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto)

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In this paper, I combine the actor-network economic sociology of disability with recent developments in phenomenological, embodied cognitive science, to discuss how ability, calculative agency, and meaning are distributed throughout materially situated sociocognitive systems. I begin by outlining the actor-network approach to disability, market formation, and economic agency. Next, I turn to the cognitive sciences, and describe the emergence of consciousness and meaning in embodied human being. With an operative synthesis of the two projects in place, I turn to government-organized disability savings plans in Canada. I suggest that the low uptake of these plans can be explained using the theoretical synthesis provided in the first two sections of this paper, giving a robust account of the threefold distribution of ability, calculative agency, and meaning.

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  • Thomas Abrams, 2017. "Disability, economic agency, and embodied cognition," Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, Springer;Fondazione Rosselli, vol. 16(1), pages 81-94, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:minsoc:v:16:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s11299-016-0192-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s11299-016-0192-5
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