Defining the boundaries of disability : critical perspectives / edited by Licia Carlson and Matthew C. Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carlson, Licia, 1970- editor.

Murray, Matthew C., editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in disability studies.

Routledge advances in disability studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology of disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

This volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Introduction: What does it mean to claim "we are all disabled"?

PART 1: Theoretical considerations

1. Power, disability, and the academic production of knowledge

2. Depending on the undependable: Disability, fragility, and instability

3. The universal view of disability and its danger to the civil rights model

4. On (not) deserving disadvantage: What kind of difference does "disability" make?

5. Being and deafness: Examining ontology and ethics within the dialectic of hearing-loss and deaf-gain and deafness-and-disability

PART 2: Spaces, representations, and lived boundaries

6. Poems

7. "We are all disabled": Feathers, continuities, and a neglected musical argument?

8. Robinson Crusoe and Peter the Wild Boy: What Daniel Defoe inadvertently tells us about disability

9. "We are all disabled": The conundrum of problems and solutions

10. Borderlands and neurodiversity: Aren´t we all humans?

11. We are all disabled, until we are not

12. Thoughts on precarity, disablement, and risk during COVID-19

13. Toward disability justice in a pandemic world

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-000-34368-5

OCLC:

1231603194