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Disability and Difference in Global Contexts : Enabling a Transformative Body Politic / by N. Erevelles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erevelles, Nirmala, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social structure.
- Equality.
- Sociology.
- Educational sociology.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Social Structure.
- Sociology of Education.
- Philosophy of Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Social Structure.
- Sociology.
- Sociology of Education.
- Philosophy of Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Disability and Difference in Global Contexts 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613381842
- 9781283381840
- 1283381842
- 9781137001184
- 1137001186
- OCLC:
- 769139380
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