Disability/Postmodernity
Embodying Disability Theory
Published on 1. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-8264-5055-5 (ISBN)
Description
With contributions from leading scholars in the USA, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Japan, India, Australia and Jordan, this text looks at the study of disablity within the context of the "postmodern" world of the 21st century. Organized into three sections, the volume opens with an exploration of theoretical perspectives, looking especially at phenomenology, the body and at concepts of difference and identity. The second section deals with culture, discussing aesthetics, narrative, film, architecture and design; while the final section explores social practice with papers discussing issues which include disabled children's perspectives (which dominate the US approach). The authors aim to demystify the concept of postmodernity and to suggest ways in which it fosters a holistic approach to the study of disability that better represents and reflects the complexity of disabled people's experiences.
Reviews / Votes
Disability/postmodernity does well to signal the emergence of a new postmodernist sensibility that has largely failed to emerge from the 'social model' approach to disability research. I found the book both engaging and enjoyable and thoroughly recommend it. -- Cassandra Loeser, Research Centre for Gender Studies, University of South Australia, Magill SA AustraliaMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5055-5 (9780826450555)
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Persons
Tom Shakespeare is Reader in sociology at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Mairian Corker is Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Central Lancashire.
Content
Section I Theory: phenomenological investigation of the disabled body, Miho Iwakuma; inspiration - a psychoanalytic investigation, John B.I. Kelly; embracing the limit - language, politics and poststructuralism, Petra Kuppers; bodies in flux - space, time and disability, Janet Price; a postmodern disorder - encounters with molecular models of disease and disability, Jackie Leach Scully; a dialogue around disability and the social model, Carol Thomas; shifting the discursive constraints of disability - (f)or a non-foundationalist conception of impairment, Shelly Tremain; the "underdevelopment" of the sociology of disability in the majority world, Majid Turmasani and John Fish. Section II Culture: romancing the machine - an inquiry of our "high-tech and low-touch" society, Dona Avery; degenerates, cyborgs and other aliens - (re)defining disability in futuristic films, Johnson Cheu; fashion, fetishism and feminism - exploring disability discourses in contemporary culture, Helen Meekosha; the crooked timber of humanity - disability, ideology and the aesthetic, Anita Silvers; mapping the outer limits, Tanya Titchkosky; naming and narrating disability, James Valentine; designing for disability, camouflaging universals, Jim Davis. Section III Society: challenging the stereotypes - disabled children's perspectives and resistance, John Davis and Nick Watson; understanding disability in the Indian context - a post-structural approach, Anita Ghai; postmodernity and people with learning difficulties - changing the subject, Dan Goodley; disabling barriers and creative resistance in the search for sexual intimacy for men with cerebral palsy, Russell Shuttleworth; contesting madness and distress, Anne Wilson and Peter Beresford.