Disability and Difference in Global Contexts

Enabling a Transformative Body Politic
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-137-57732-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erevelles, N.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Making Bodies that Matter: The Political Economy of 'Becoming' (Disabled)
Of Ghosts and Ghetto Politics: Embodying Education Policy as if Disability Mattered
'Unspeakable' Offenses: Disability Studies at the Intersection of Multiple Differences (with Andrea Minear)
Embodied Antimonies: Feminist Disability Studies Meets Third World Feminism
(Im)Material Citizens: Cognitive Disability, Race, and the Politics of Citizenship
The 'Other' Side of the Dialectic: Towards a Materialist Ethic of Care

Über Autor(innen)

Nirmala Erevelles is Associate Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of Alabama, USA.