ISBN:
0812290534
,
9780812290530
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
Edition:
1. ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2015
Series Statement:
Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism
Parallel Title:
Print version Civil Disabilities : Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging
DDC:
305.9/080973
Keywords:
Citizenship
;
Social integration
;
Discrimination against people with disabilities
;
People with disabilities Legal status, laws, etc
;
People with disabilities Social conditions
;
People with disabilities Civil rights
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Behinderter Mensch
;
Bürgerrecht
;
Soziale Integration
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Civil Disabilities presents original essays by leading figures in disabilities studies who reconsider the meaning of citizenship. Working from a variety of disciplines and approaches, the volume explores the possibilities for imagining a more just and inclusive world for disabled persons
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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FrontmatterContentsDisability, Citizenship, And Belonging: A Critical Introduction
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1. Homer’s Odyssey: Multiple Disability and the Best Years of Our Lives
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2. Defect: A Selective Reinterpretation of American Immigration History
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3. The Disremembered Past
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4. Integrating Disability, Transforming Disease History: Tuberculosis and Its Past
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5. Screening Disabilities: Visual Fields, Public Culture, and the Atypical Mind in the Twenty- First Century
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6. Social Confluence and Citizenship: A View from the Intersection of Music and Disability
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7. Our Ancestors the Sighted: Making Blind People French and French People Blind, 1750– 1991
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8. Citizenship and the Family: Parents of Children with Disabilities, the Pursuit of Rights, and Paternalism
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9. Cognitive Disability, Capability Equality, and Citizenship
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10. Invisible Disability: Seeing, Being, Power
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11. Disability Trouble
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NotesContributorsIndexAcknowledgments.
DOI:
10.9783/9780812290530
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.9783/9780812290530
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