Disability and difference in global contexts : enabling a transformative body politic

Disability and difference in global contexts : enabling a transformative body politic / Nirmala Erevelles.

"This book deploys a relational analysis to theorize disability at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality within both U.S. and global contexts. Critically engaging post humanist theories of difference this book explores the implications of re-theorizing disability as a material...

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Main Author: Erevelles, Nirmala, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Sociology of disability.
Disabilities > Philosophy.
People with disabilities.
Historical materialism.
Philosophy.
Social isolation.
Sociology.
physically handicapped.
handicapped.
philosophy.
sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Sociology
Social isolation
Philosophy
Historical materialism
People with disabilities
Sociology of disability
Behinderung.
Ungleichheit.
Minderheit.
Körperbild.
Soziologie.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : bodies that do not matter
  • Disability as "becoming" : notes on the political economy of the flesh
  • Of ghosts and ghetto politics : embodying educational 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 : toward a materialist ethic of care.

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