
Disabled Futures
A Framework for Radical Inclusion
Milo W. Obourn(Author)
Temple University Press,U.S.
Published on 17. January 2020
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-4399-1730-5 (ISBN)
Description
Disabled Futures makes an important intervention in disability studies by taking an intersectional approach to race, gender, and disability. Milo Obourn reads disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies to develop a framework for addressing inequity. They theorize the concept of "racialized disgender"-to describe the ways in which racialization and gendering are social processes with disabling effects-thereby offering a new avenue for understanding race, gender, and disability as mutually constitutive.
Obourn uses readings of literature and popular culture from Lost and Avatar to Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy to explore and unpack specific ways that race and gender construct-and are constructed by-historical notions of ability and disability, sickness and health, and successful recovery versus damaged lives. What emerges is not only a more complex and deeper understanding of the intersections between ableism, racism, and (cis)sexism, but also possibilities for imagining alternate and more radically inclusive futures in which all of our identities, experiences, freedoms, and oppressions are understood as interdependent and intertwined.
Obourn uses readings of literature and popular culture from Lost and Avatar to Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy to explore and unpack specific ways that race and gender construct-and are constructed by-historical notions of ability and disability, sickness and health, and successful recovery versus damaged lives. What emerges is not only a more complex and deeper understanding of the intersections between ableism, racism, and (cis)sexism, but also possibilities for imagining alternate and more radically inclusive futures in which all of our identities, experiences, freedoms, and oppressions are understood as interdependent and intertwined.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 line drawing, 5 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4399-1730-5 (9781439917305)
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Milo W. Obourn is an Associate Professor of English and Women & Gender Studies at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, and the author of Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature.