Remapping an Ableist World : Disability and Oppression under Capitalism / Vera Chouinard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chouinard, Vera, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Remapping an Ableist World examines the forces shaping our lives in an able capitalist world. It draws on examples including human enhancement and the organ trade to illustrate connections between able capitalist ways of life, impairment, disability, and oppression. The book addresses ableness as a regime of power and oppression intrinsic to global capitalism and, as such, a system that touches all of our lives, albeit in different ways. Vera Chouinard offers an intersectional analysis of the production of impairment and disability, drawing on autoethnographic and autobiographical methodologies, case studies of disability in the Global South and North, and comparative accounts of processes such as the uneven development of disability law. Inviting readers to rethink the causes and consequences of the ableist capitalist order in which we find ourselves, Remapping an Ableist World reminds us that for our own well-being and that of generations to comes we must forge a less destructive and more nurturing way of life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Remapping an Ableist World

2 From Disability to Social Injustice: Reframing Ableness, Impairment, and Disability Issues

3 On Living in an Ableist World (without Necessarily Knowing It) and Being Disabled in and outside the Academy: Autoethnographic Reflections

4 Mapping Bipolar Worlds: Lived Geographies of “Madness” in Autoethnographic and Autobiographical Accounts

5 What’s Neo-liberal Global Capitalism Got to Do with It? Ableness and the Production of Impairment and Disability

6 To the Ends of the Earth: Wealth, Poverty, and the Pursuit of Able Embodiment

7 Beyond the Limits of Law: Disability Human Rights Law and the Struggle for Sociospatial Justice

8 Conclusions: What Next? Working Towards a More Enabling and Empowering World

Postscript: On Daring to Dream Another World

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9781487535735

OCLC:

1465400408