ISBN:
9780230243255
Language:
English
Pages:
ca. 360 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Disability and Social Theory : New Developments and Directions
DDC:
305.9/0801
Keywords:
Social sciences-Philosophy
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Behinderung
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Soziologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URN:
10.1057/9781137023001
URL:
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