This paper stakes out a space for a critical global disability anthropology that considers disability not as a medicalized classification of impairment but as a relational category. Disability expertise, I argue, is the particular knowledge that disabled people develop and enact about unorthodox configurations of agency, cultural norms, and relationships between selves, bodies, and the designed world. Disability expertise is a descriptive domain, that is, a container into which ethnographers might enumerate observations about how disabled people enact personhood and moral agency in diverse cultural settings. To illustrate what I mean by disability expertise, I draw examples from one interlocutor’s experiences, described in interviews conducted during broader ethnographic research in Russia. I elaborate one particular domain of disability expertise: managing perceptions of disability, especially the tendency of nondisabled people to view disability through the tropes of suffering and pity. I call for anthropologists to claim disability anthropology as a space for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge production.

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残疾专长

本文为批判性的全球残疾人类学开辟了一个空间，它认为残疾不是一种医学化的损伤分类，而是一种关系类别。我认为，残疾专业知识是残疾人发展和制定的关于代理、文化规范以及自我、身体和设计世界之间关系的非正统配置的特殊知识。残疾专业知识是一个描述性领域，也就是说，民族志学家可以在其中列举关于残疾人如何在不同文化环境中塑造人格和道德能动性的观察结果的容器。为了说明我所说的残疾专业知识是什么意思，我从一位对话者的经历中举出例子，这些经历在俄罗斯更广泛的人种学研究期间进行的采访中有所描述。我详细阐述了残疾专业知识的一个特定领域：管理对残疾的看法，特别是非残疾人通过痛苦和怜悯的比喻来看待残疾的倾向。我呼吁人类学家将残疾人类学视为批判性、跨学科知识生产的空间。