In the Shadow of Disability
Reconnecting History, Identity and Politics
1st Edition
Published on 17. September 2012
133 pages
978-3-86649-541-8 (ISBN)
Description
How can one write the history of disability, and what are the consequences for the disabled themselves? This is the key question that Pieter Verstraete addresses in this pioneering book that tries to rethink the possible bonds between disability, history and politics. Since the 1990's the concept of disability has gained in prominence. Perhaps more than in other branches of historical enquiry, disability historians have attributed a crucial place to the notion 'identity'. Re-cently, however, the suitability of identity for the realization of libera-ting and emancipatory politics for people with disabilities has been questioned. This book aims to incorporate some of the critical approaches towards identity and to suggest a complementary connection between history and political reform.
Reviews / Votes
Using disability to unmask education and its history is what [...] makes this book relevant. H-Disability, H-Net Reviews 11/2015 Dies führt dann weiter zu der Frage, ob der Mensch an sich behindert ist oder durch die Strukturen und Organisationen der jeweiligen Gesellschaft erst behindert wird - eine entscheidende Frage, wenn es darum geht, über die Bildungsstrukturen für Menschen mit Behinderungen zu diskutieren. pw-portal, 29.01.2015More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leverkusen-Opladen
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Undergrads, Postgrads and researchers of Disability Studies, Sociology, Public Health, Political Science; historians of education, historians specialized in gender and minority groups, public health policy makers
File size
0,79 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-86649-541-8 (9783866495418)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2012
1st Edition
Verlag Barbara Budrich
€16.90
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Person
Dr. Pieter Verstraete, Postdoctoral research fellow Flemish Fund for Scientific Research Flanders/KU Leuven, Belgium
Content
- Cover
- In the Shadow of Disability
- Table of Contents
- Foreword by Dan Goodley
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Cycling around identity - from history to politics . and back
- Katie Mc Girr's tandem
- Nothing about us without us
- From history to politics . and back
- Shading the book
- THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
- Chapter 1: The shadow of identity
- Social-constructivism, history and the shadow
- Disability politics, identity formation and the loss of shadows in Western culture
- Towards a revalorization of the shadow
- The dwarf in the chess-automaton
- Paradise lost
- Turning off the lights and pulling the emergency brake
- Chapter 2: A Foucauldian perspective on disability history
- Visibility is a trap
- Underneath "Today"
- Switching of power!?
- DISABILITY HISTORIES
- Chapter 3: The problematization of disability
- Solitude and the problematization of disability
- Historical intersections
- The pedagogical value of solitude
- Identity and inclusion
- Chapter 4: The politics of activity
- Poverty and the politicization of 'disability'
- Educating active citizens
- The visitor of the poor
- Private societies, home visits and personal needs
- Politics & activity
- RECONNECTING DISABILITY HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY
- Afterword: Essays in refusal
- Bibliography
