Disability worlds / Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginsburg, Faye D., author.

Rapp, Rayna, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disability studies.

Disability culture.

Disability awareness--New York (State)--New York.

Disability awareness.

Children with disabilities--Services for--New York (State)--New York.

Children with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Political activity--New York (State)--New York.

People with disabilities.

Neurodiversity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City's wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children's lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition and rights. Disability consciousness, they show, emerges in everyday politics, practices and frictions. Chapters consider dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of "special education" and the perils of transitioning from high school. They also highlight the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public culture. Disability Worlds reflects the authors' anthropological commitments to recognizing the significance of this fundamental form of human difference. Ginsburg and Rapp's conversations with diverse New Yorkers reveal the bureaucratic constraints and paradoxes established in response to the disability rights movement, as well as the remarkable creativity of disabled people and their allies who are opening pathways into both disability justice and disability futures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The doubled telos of modernity : genetic screening, atypical bains, and neurodiversity

New kinship imaginaries and their limits

The paradox of recognition and the social production of moxie

Transitioning to nowhere?

Living otherwise : worlding disability arts

Disability worlds : disability futures.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ginsburg, Faye D. Disability worlds.

ISBN:

9781478059394

1478059397

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.