Disability and dissensus : strategies of disability representation and inclusion in contemporary culture / edited by Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, Maciej Wieczorek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ojrzyñska, Katarzyna, editor.

Wieczorek, Maciej, editor.

Series:

International comparative social studies ; Volume 47.

International comparative social studies ; Volume 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

Disability and Dissensus is a comprehensive collection of essays that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of critical cultural disability studies. The volume offers a selection of texts by numerous specialists in different areas of the humanities, both well-established scholars and young academics, as well as practitioners and activists from the USA, the UK, Poland, Ireland, and Greece. Taking inspiration from Critical Disability Studies and Jacques Rancière’s philosophy, the book critically engages with the changing modes of disability representation in contemporary cultures. It sheds light both on inspirations and continuities as well as tensions and conflicts within contemporary disability studies, fostering new understandings of human diversity and contributing to a dissensual ferment of thought in the academia, arts, and activism. Contributors are: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Marek Mackiewicz-Ziccardi, Małgorzata Sugiera, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, Maria Tsakiri, Murray K. Simpson, James Casey, Agnieszka Izdebska, Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Dorota Krzemińska, Jolanta Rzeźnicka-Krupa, Wiktoria Siedlecka-Dorosz, Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, Christian O’Reilly, and Len Collin.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Disability and Dissensus

Katarzyna Ojrzyńska and Maciej Wieczorek

Part 1 (Re)Defining Models of Disability and Normalcy: Theories and Contexts

1 Critical Disability Studies in the Humanities

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Katarzyna Ojrzyńska

2 Critical Disability Studies: Sketches from Poland and the UK

Dan Goodley and Marek Mackiewicz-Ziccardi

3 Making Sense of Bodies: Models and Metaphors in Sciences and Arts

Małgorzata Sugiera

Part 2 Disability Film Festivals: The Politics of Representation and Participation

4 Disability Cinema: Charting Alternative Ethical Maps of Living on Film

David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder

5 Disability Film Festivals: The Spaces where Crip Killjoys Take Action

Maria Tsakiri

Part 3 Between the Real and the Reel

6 Disability, Gender, and Innocence: Russ Meyer’s Mudhoney and Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Problems of Signification in Cinema

Murray K. Simpson

7 “Never the Twain Shall Meet”: Myth and Miracles in Jessica Hauser’s 2009 Film Lourdes

James Casey

Part 4 Bodies that Matter: Representing and Experiencing Non-Standard Physiques

8 A Dwarf – A Metaphor and a Body in Words and Images

Agnieszka Izdebska

9 Disability and Its Doubles: The Conflicting Discourses of Disability in Susan Nussbaum’s No One as Nasty

Edyta Lorek-Jezińska

Part 5 Beyond Therapy

10 Between Therapy and Art: Borderline Space in Polish Theatre of People with Intellectual (Dis)Ability

Dorota Krzemińska and Jolanta Rzeźnicka-Krupa

11 ‘…and we all’: The Phenomenon of Theatre 21

Wiktoria Siedlecka-Dorosz

Part 6 From Life to Stage and Screen: Blue Teapot’s Sanctuary

12 Shooting Actors who have Intellectual Disabilities: A Reflexive Analysis on the Making of the Feature Film Sanctuary

Len Collin

13 Christian O’Reilly Talks about His Writing on Disability for the Stage and for the Screen

Christian O’Reilly

Disability, Dis(sensual)Art, and the Politics of Participation

Maciej Wieczorek and Katarzyna Ojrzyńska

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-42467-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004424678 DOI