ISBN:
9780774832793
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0774832797
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 349 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
Issued also in electronic format
Series Statement:
Disability culture and politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mobilizing metaphor
DDC:
704/.087
Keywords:
People with disabilities and the arts
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People with disabilities Political activity
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People with disabilities in art
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Political activists
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kanada
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Behinderter Mensch
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Kunst
Abstract:
"Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how artistic and radical efforts are reshaping disability activism in Canada and, in the process, challenging dominant perceptions of disability. Recent changes to Canadian disability policy have seen disability programs hampered by funding cuts and other austerity measures. But this oppression has also given new life to an already vibrant Canadian tradition of disability activism. Until now, research has focused on the legal and policy spheres and overlooked disability activism that expresses itself alongside and outside conventional policy reform, often through a variety of art forms. Here, contributions by disability artists, activists, and academics show how disability art is distinctive as both art and social action. Richly illustrated with photographs and other images, and including an insightful concluding chapter by renowned disability scholar Tanya Titchkoksy, this array of artistic, cultural, and radical approaches to disability politics demonstrates that disability activism is as varied as the populations it represents. As the contributors sketch the shifting contours of disability politics in Canada and show how disability oppression is not isolated from other prejudices, they challenge us to re-examine how we enact social and political change."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Fixing: the claiming and reclaiming of disability history
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Imagining otherwise: the ephemeral spaces of envisioning new meanings
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Postervirus: claiming sexual autonomy for people with HIV through collective action
,
Deaf and disability arts: insiders, outsiders, and the potential of progressive studios
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"It fell on deaf ears": deafhood through the graphic signed novel as a form of artivism
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(Dis)quiet in the peanut gallery: performing social justice through integrated dance
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Battle lines drawn: creative resistance to ableism through online media
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Deconstructing phonocentrism: a new genre in deaf arts
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Crip the light fantastic: art as liminal emancipatory practice in the twenty-first century
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Claiming "the masters" for disability rights: an artist's journey
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Perching as a strategy for seeking legitimacy for broken embodiments: embracing biomedical claims for ME
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Challenging rhetorical indifference with a cripped poetry of witness
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The body as resistance art/ifact: disability activism during the 2012 Quebec Student Movement
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Divided no more: the Toronto Disability Pride March and the challenges of inclusive organizing
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Accountability, agency, and absence: embodying radical disability values in artistic production
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Conclusion: the politics of embracing disability metaphor
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Issued also in electronic format.
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