Price notes that surveillance for the sake of coding was seen as scrutiny from an outside entity, however, it had been hard to draw the line between internal and external scrutiny because of how outside surveillance can be a catalyst for self-scrutiny.

Difference between Surveillance and Self-Scrutiny

Stephanie Kerschbaum terms this self-doubt or self-scrutiny of disability as dis-attention. Price notes that dis-attention also includes discourses of personal fault that accompany certain disabilities like Type II diabetes, which can cause individuals to scrutinize whether they are "causing" their own disability.

Price notes that the code for surveillance came about through a conversation with Addison Torrance, a research assistant who helped with developing data codes, in 2020 after Addison noted that several interviewees were self-scrutinizing their own disability, scrutinizing whether their own accommodations were reasonable, or doubting their own validity in claiming disability. This led to the development of both the surveillance code but also the code under Cost about self-scrutiny.

Surveillance and Self-Scrutiny

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

Kerschbaum, Stephanie L. 2022. Signs of Disability. New York: New York University Press.

Signs of Disability

Some examples of participants engaging in self-scrutiny and self-surveillance include a participant downplaying how much they are impaired by their disability, and participants not asking for accommodations because of the cost or perceived cost.

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