Defining the Boundaries of Disability: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367684167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 144 str.

Carlson, Licia

Opis

This volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology.

Spis treści

Introduction: What does it mean to claim “we are all disabled”?  PART 1: Theoretical considerations  1. Power, disability, and the academic production of knowledge  2. Depending on the undependable: Disability, fragility, and instability  3. The universal view of disability and its danger to the civil rights model  4. On (not) deserving disadvantage: What kind of difference does “disability” make?  5. Being and deafness: Examining ontology and ethics within the dialectic of hearing-loss and deaf-gain and deafness-and-disability  PART 2: Spaces, representations, and lived boundaries  6. Poems  7. “We are all disabled”: Feathers, continuities, and a neglected musical argument?  8. Robinson Crusoe and Peter the Wild Boy: What Daniel Defoe inadvertently tells us about disability  9. “We are all disabled”: The conundrum of problems and solutions  10. Borderlands and neurodiversity: Aren´t we all humans?  11. We are all disabled, until we are not  12. Thoughts on precarity, disablement, and risk during COVID-19  13. Toward disability justice in a pandemic world