Disability and difference in global contexts
Subtitle: enabling a transformative body politic
By: Nirmala Erevelles
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780230100183
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes; Philosophy; Sociology of disability; People with disabilities; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Disabilities; Historical materialism
Description: "This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship"--

"This book deploys a relational analysis to theorize disability at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality within both U.S. and global contexts. Critically engaging post humanist theories of difference this book explores the implications of re-theorizing disability as a materialist construct in the context of global citizenship. The book engages a diversity of theories and topics that include transnational feminist theory, critical race feminism, post humanist and marxist theories of embodiment , special education as the post colonial ghetto, sex educational policies, citizenship and cognitive disability, war and disability, and the dialectical tensions within an ethics of care"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Making Bodies that Matter: The Political Economy of "Becoming" (Disabled) * Of Ghosts and Ghetto Politics: Embodying Education Policy as if Disability Mattered * "Unspeakable" Offenses: Disability Studies at the Intersection of Multiple Differences (with Andrea Minear) * Embodied Antimonies: Feminist Disability Studies Meets Third World Feminism * (Im)Material Citizens: Cognitive Disability, Race, and the Politics of Citizenship * The "Other" Side of the Dialectic: Towards a Materialist Ethic of Care.