num_pages: 288
description: In the neoliberal era when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon ablenationalism and asserts that inclusion becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to governing norms of productivity and independence. Thus the book pushes beyond questions of impairment to explore how disability subjectivities create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness. The focus is on the emergence of new crip/queer subjectivities at work in disability arts disability studies pedagogy independent and mainstream disability cinema (e.g. Midnight Cowboy ) internet-based medical user groups anti-normative novels of embodiment (e.g. Richard Powerss The Echo-Maker ) and finally the labor of living in non-productive bodies within late capitalism.
language: English
title: The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment
publisher: University of Michigan Press