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'Don't touch/push me!' From disruption to intimacy in relations with one's wheelchair. An analysis of relational modalities between persons and objects

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In this article, I re-examine the question of the relationships between humans and non-humans, between subjects and objects. I analyse how relationships shape and define these –both them and their assemblage. While I concur with work in STS that has shown the ongoing process through which the embodied self is performed, I shift my attention from this ongoing process to the nature of the entities resulting from this process. I shift my attention from adjustment to entanglements and analyze the different ways of ‘being entangled’. Some of these produce intimacy, other don’t. This analysis is based on ethnographic fieldwork on the use of wheelchairs. I identify five relational modalities between the person and their wheelchair: intrusional, instrumental, functional, internalized and bound. Each defines the particular status of the wheelchair and of the person, and the way they live together. This analysis allows me to discuss the way different relationships lead to different descriptions and perceptions of the wheelchair and of the person. This analysis has implications for both the analysis of ‘prosthesis’ and of ‘disability’.

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Sociologie
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hal-02444337 , version 1 (17-01-2020)

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Myriam Winance. 'Don't touch/push me!' From disruption to intimacy in relations with one's wheelchair. An analysis of relational modalities between persons and objects. Sociological Review, 2019, 67 (2), pp.428-443. ⟨10.1177/0038026119830916⟩. ⟨hal-02444337⟩
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