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Joshua St. Pierre

Joshua St. Pierre is Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Critical Disability Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Working at the intersection of critical disability studies, contemporary political theory, and feminist theory, his research focuses on the interplay of communication and disability within information societies. He has published on the phenomenology of dysfluency, the history of Speech-Language Pathology, as well as eugenics and feminist theory in venues such as Hypatia, Foucault Studies, and The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. 

Symposia

Reimagining Curative Eschatology and Disability Justice

Essays

From Perfectly Safe to Palliative Care: Disability Justice after Eschatology

Scratch beneath the surface, and eugenic logic flows deep and wide. It is one thing to be moved by pity and engage in charity, or even to be moved by justice and seek to dismantle structural barriers that impede disabled people from flourishing. But it is quite another thing to imagine . . . how and why we might “conserve” disability against the possibility of a curative future.