Disability and Social Theory [electronic resource] : New Developments and Directions /
Goodley, D.editor.
Hughes, B.editor.
Davis, L.editor.
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class and nation.
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Cover; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introducing Disability and Social Theory; Part I: Cultures; 2 Civilising Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled People; 3 Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of 'Disability' in the Academy; 4 Disability and the Majority World: A Neocolonial Approach; 5 Discourses of Disabled Peoples' Organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu and Future Perspectives; Part II: Bodies; 6 Cyborgs, Cripples and iCrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies
7 Theory, Impairment and Impersonal Singularities: Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben8 The Body as the Problem of Individuality: A Phenomenological Disability Studies Approach; 9 Dancing with Disability: An Intersubjective Approach; Part III: Subjectivities; 10 Nomadology and Subjectivity: Deleuze, Guattari and Critical Disability Studies; 11 Jacques Lacan + Paul Hunt = Psychoanalytic Disability Studies; 12 Intellectual Disability Trouble: Foucault and Goffman on 'Challenging Behaviour'; 13 Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose 'Abled' Narcissism; Part IV: Communities
14 Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studies15 Disability, Development and Postcolonialism; 16 Engaging with Disability with Postcolonial Theory; 17 Recognition, Respect and Rights: Women with Disabilities in a Globalised World; 18 Conclusion: Disability and Social Theory; Glossary; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class and nation.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Social policy.
Public health laws.
Sociology.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Social Policy.
Medical Law.
Gender Studies.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.