Full Description
Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual nature of disability; governmentality and disability rights; neurodiversity and challenges to medicalized constructions of autism; and questions of citizenship and participation in political and sexual economies. In sum, this volume uses disability studies as an innovative framework for its investigation into what it means to be human.
Contents
Foreword: Scope of the books and Focus Areas; Wappett and Arndt Introductory Essay: Emerging Voices in DS Scholarship and a View to the Future of DS; Wappett and Arndt 1. The Trajectory of Entering Disability Culture; Anjali Forber-Pratt and Steven Aragon 2. The Ontology of Impairment: Rethinking how we Define Disability; Christopher A. Riddle 3. Disability, Vietnam, and the Discourse of American Exceptionalism; Tom Jordan 4. Past Perspectives: What Can Archaeology Offer Disability Studies?; William Southwell-Wright 5. Disability Studies and Social Geography Make a Good Marriage; Lien Claes, Elisabeth De Schauwer and Geert Van Hove 6. Embodiment of Disability: A Spiritual, Disability Studies, and Transformative Perspective; Rodney Hume-Dawson 7. Equality through Difference: Policy Values, Human Rights, and Social Justice; Sarah Parker Harris, Randell Owen and Robert Gould 8. Beyond Visions of Repair: Evoking a Parlance of Capacity and Competence in Research on Asperger Syndrome and Schooling; Carrie Snow 9. Feminism, Rape Culture, and Intellectual Disability: Incorporating Sexual self-advocacy and Sexual Consent Capacity; Rebekah Moras 10. Potentialities: Toward a Transformative Theory of Disabled Masculinities; Margaret Rose Torrell
