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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung études diverses |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lennard J Davis |
ISBN: | 9780415873741 0415873746 9780415873765 0415873762 0415873312 9780415873314 0415873320 9780415873321 |
OCLC Number: | 419794893 |
Description: | xiii, 653 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Part I: Historical perspectives -- Constructing normalcy / Lennard J. Davis -- A brief history of discrimination and disabled people / Colin Barnes -- "A silent exile on this earth": the metaphorical construction of deafness in the nineteenth century / Douglas Baynton -- Disability and the human genome / James C. Wilson -- Medieval constructions of blindness in France and England / Edward Wheatley. Part II: The politics of disability -- Construction of deafness / Harlan Lane -- (Post) colonizing disability / Mark Sherry -- Abortion and disability: who should and should not inhabit the world: / Ruth Hubbard -- Disability rights and selective abortion / Marsha Saxton -- Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization / Michael Davidson -- The dimensions of disability oppression / James Charlton -- A mad fight: psychiatry and disability activism / Bradley Lewis. Part III: Stigma and illness -- Stigma: an enigma demystified / Lerita M. Coleman Brown -- AIDS and its metaphors / Susan Sontag -- Beholding / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- On (almost) passing / Brenda Brueggemann. Part IV: Theorizing disability -- Reassigning meaning / Simi Linton -- Enabling disability: rewriting kinship, reimagining citizenship / Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp -- Aesthetic nervousness / Ato Quayson -- The social model of disability / Tom Shakespeare -- Narrative prosthesis / David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder -- The unexceptional schizophrenic: a post-postmodern introduction / Catherine Prendergast. Part V: Identities and intersectionalities -- The end of identity politics: on disability as an unstable category / Lennard J. Davis -- Disability and the theory of complex embodiment -- for identity politics in a new register / Tobin Siebers -- Toward a feminist theory of disability / Susan Wendell -- Integrating disability, transforming feminist theory / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Is disability studies actually white disability studies? / Chris Bell -- Compulsory able-bodiedness and queer/disabled existence / Robert McRuer -- Deaf people: a different center / "Hearing aids are not deaf": a historical perspective on technology in the deaf world / R.A.R. Edwards -- Minority politics in Korea: disability, interraciality, and gender / Eunjung Kim -- This is what we think / Daniel Docherty [and others]. Part VI: Disability and culture -- Cripping heterosexuality, queering able-bodiedness: Murderball, Brokeback Mountain and the Contested Masculine Body / Cynthia Barounis -- The vulnerable articulate: James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / Marquard Smith -- Sculpting body ideals: Alison Lapper Pregnant and the public display of disability / Ann Millett-Gallant -- "When black women start going on Prozac ... ": the politics of race, gender, and emotional distress in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me / Anna Mollow -- The enfreakment of photography / David Hevey -- Blindness and visual culture: an eyewitness account / Georgina Kleege -- Disability, life narrative, and representation / G. Thomas Couser -- Autism as culture / Joseph N. Straus. Part VII: Fiction, memoir, and poetry -- Stones in my pockets, stones in my heart / Eli Clare -- Unspeakable conversations / Harriet McBryde Johnson -- Helen and Frida / Anne Finger -- "I am not one of the" and "Cripple lullaby" / Cheryl Marie Wade -- "Beauty and variations" / Kenny Fries -- Selections from Cripple Poetics / Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus -- Selections from The Cry of the Gull / Emmanuelle Laborit -- Selections from Planet of the Blind / Steve Kuusisto. |
Responsibility: | edited by Lennard J. Davis. |
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"Contesting Development is a fascinating collection of case studies from different parts of the world demonstrating how poor people who are excluded from the project of development challenge not just its performance but also its premises. It will be required reading in courses in disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, geography, women's studies, urban studies and planning, and public policy."-Akhil Gupta, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles "This collection of essays is one of the most compelling responses to the mainstream project of Development available today. The cases go beyond all of the usual rhetoric to show how people live, struggle, negotiate and endure their situations. Each chapter tells a rich story that - even in the midst of poverty and violence - evokes the possibility of change."-Wendy Wolford, Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"The book is more than a wonderful collection of case studies of critical struggles against neoliberal globalization, local-based with global meaning. It is a remarkable work that gives voice to the excluded, the 'losers,' the disempowered of the non-Western world, and offers a new approach for understanding them, their lives, their struggles for another development and another possible world."-Gianni Piazza, University of Catania, in Contemporary Sociology 40, 1 'This thoughtfully edited collection forces a reconsideration of simplistic narratives of social change and development that identifies a long march to neo-liberal democratic hegemony.''This collection is important, drawing on a strong theoretical and political positioning to understand social movements in ways that outline their complexities, while providing deep and vivid portraits of their activities....this book is useful for academics, students and others who seek to understand social change in its complexity.'-Andrew Gibbs, University of KwaZulu-Natal, in Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare Read more...
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