ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses pain within Disability Studies; because of its medicalization – and conflation with acute pain – chronic pain is not particularly well included in the Social Model of Disability. However, a crip approach which explores normativities can be useful; in particular this approach exposes the lack of social recognition that there is for chronic pain, and the emphasis on cure, which is itself a part of neoliberal individualization and responsibility discourses. Responses to pain – especially stigma and abjection – are gendered and racialized as well as shaped by ableism.
