Full Description
Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental question about how we should live together--and even thrive together--amid the vast landscape of human difference. In pieces discussing everything from moving with guide dogs to hiking on wheels to nurturing chosen family, The Art of Flourishing offers a window into the innumerable and varied ways scholars, artists, writers, and thought leaders with disabilities understand what it means to "flourish."
For some, it means contesting the medical establishment's narratives of technological salvation that attempt to "fix" people who don't need fixing. For others, it means cultivating interdependent networks of artistic collaboration, or it means having agency in choosing how one appears in and navigates public space. Based on a series of public talks hosted by The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this volume demonstrates the incredible range of priorities, practices, and possibilities that characterize disabled experience. It also invites both scholarly and public audiences to imagine what it would take to build a world in which everyone gets to exercise their own capacities in ways they find meaningful.
Contents
Liz Bowen, Joel Michael Reynolds, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Erik Parens: Introduction
1: Haben Girma, Rachel Kolb, and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke: Belonging: On Disability, Technology, and Community
2: Yomi Wrong, Rod Michalko, and Kim Q. Hall: Navigating: On Disability, Technology, and Experiencing the World
3: Lateef McLeod and D.J. Savarese: Disrupting Ableism with Artful Activism
4: Anand Prahlad, Ann Millett-Gallant, and Karen Nakamura: Questioning Cure: Disability, Identity, and Healing
5: Julia Watts Belser, Georgina Kleege, and Jerron Herman: Enjoying: Disability as a Creative Force
6: Jina Kim, Jess Waggoner, Sami Schalk, Joe Stramondo, Leah Smith, and Mia Mingus: We Belong to One Another: Disability and Family-Making
