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Biopolitics of disability : neoliberalism, ablenationalism, and peripheral embodiment / David T. Mitchell with Sharon L. Snyder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, David T., 1962-
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disability studies.
- People with disabilities--Civil rights.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Social conditions.
- Disabilities--Government policy.
- Disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Government policy.
- Government policy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon "ablenationalism" and asserts that "inclusion" becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to governing norms of productivity and independence. Thus, the book pushes beyond questions of impairment to explore how disability subjectivities create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness. The focus is on the emergence of new crip/queer subjectivities at work in disability arts, disability studies pedagogy, independent and mainstream disability cinema (e.g., Midnight Cowboy), internet-based medical user groups, anti-normative novels of embodiment (e.g., Richard Powers's The Echo-Maker) and, finally, the labor of living in "non-productive" bodies within late capitalism.
- Contents:
- From liberal to neoliberal futures of disability : rights-based inclusionism, ablenationalism, and the able-disabled
- Curricular cripistemologies, or, every child left behind
- Gay pasts and disability future(s) tense : heteronormative trauma and parasitism in Midnight Cowboy
- The politics of atypicality : international disability film festivals and the productive fracturing of identity
- Permutations of the species : independent disability cinema and the critique of ablenationalism
- Corporeal subcultures and the specter of biopolitics
- The capacities of incapacity in antinormative novels of embodiment
- Afterword. Disability as multitude : reworking nonproductive labor power.
- Notes:
- Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
- Includes filmography (pages 237-238), bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472121182
- 0472121189
- 9780472072712
- 0472072714
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.7331366
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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