Full Description
This edited volume includes chapters on disability studies organized around three themes: Theory, Philosophy and Critique. Informed by a range of scholars who may or may not fashion their work beneath the banner of disability studies in explicit terms, it draws connections across a range of identities, knowledges, histories, and struggles that may, on the face of the text seem unrelated. The chapters are cross-categorical and interdisciplinary for purposes of complicating disability studies across international contexts and multiple locations that consider practice-oriented and intersectional approaches for analysis and advocacy. This integrative approach heralds more powerful ways to imagine disability and the conversation on disability.
Contents
1. Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity: Interregnum or Productive Interpretation.- 2. Alternative Agencies: Materialist Navigations Below the Radar of Disability Studies.- 3. The Cost of Counting Disability: Theorizing the Possibility of a Non-Economic Remainder.- 4. Theorising Disability and Humanity.- 5. The Metaphor of Civic Threat: Intellectual Disability and Education.- 6. Complex and Critical: A Methodological Application of the Tripartite Model of Disability.- 7. Unexpected Anatomies: Extraordinary Bodies in Contemporary Art.- 8. The Names of Physical Deformity: A Meditation on the Term Disability and Its Recent Uses.- 9. "Once Big Oil, Always Big Oil": Disability and Sustainability in Pixar's Cars 2.- 10. I'd Prefer Not To': Melville's Challenge to Hegemonic Identity in Bartleby, the Scrivener.- 11. Co-creators of Resistance, Reflections by a Daughter and her Mom.- 12. Relational Pedagogies of Disability: Cognitive Accessibility in College Classrooms.- 13. The Totem Project.- 14. "I Have to be Black Before I am Disabled": Understanding Agency, Positionality, and Recognition in Higher Education.- 15. Writing, Identity and the Other.- 16. The Development of Inclusion in a German Context: An American Reflects on International Perspectives.
