Questioning the concept of disability: inability, or rather, disablement?

Abstract

Is disability truly just about an inability—about human limitation, personal tragedy, or a societal burden? Or is this merely a narrow conception of disability, rooted in a flawed understanding of "the norm" and power—a construct that has taken shape within Western culture over thousands of years?
It is accurate to label this limited understanding of disability as "ableism." Disability studies scholar Fiona Kumari Campbell aptly describes ableism as a societal "dictatorship of the norm" that categorizes people into "normal" and "abnormal," and as a logic of superiority, difference, and abnormality that defines the relationship between non-disabled and disabled people.