Civil Disabilities
Subtitle: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812246674
Subjects: People with disabilities, civil rights; Civil rights, united states; People with disabilities, legal status, laws, etc.; Discrimination against people with disabilities; Citizenship; Sociology
Description: Urges a reconceptualization of disability and citizenship to secure a rightful place for disabled persons in society. Essays from leading scholars in a diversity of fields offer critical perspectives on current citizenship studies, which still largely assume an ableist world. Placing historians in conversation with anthropologists, sociologists with literary critics, and musicologists with political scientists, this interdisciplinary volume presents a compelling case for reimagining citizenship that is more consistent, inclusive, and just, in both theory and practice. By placing disability front and center in academic and civic discourse, Civil Disabilities tests the very notion of citizenship and transforms our understanding of disability and belonging.