Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order

ISBN-13: 9780367523190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

David Bolt

Opis

This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives.

Spis treści

Part 1: International Developments of the Foundational Concept.  1. The Metanarrative of Blindness in North America: Meaning, Feeling, and Feel.  2. The Metanarrative of Blindness in the Global South: A LatDisCrit Counterstory to the Bittersweet Mythology of Blindness as Giftedness.  3. The Metanarrative of Blindness in India: Special Education and Assumed Knowledge Cultures. Part 2: Beyond Normative Minds and Bodies.  4. The Metanarrative of Mental Illness: A Collaborative Autoethnography.  5. The Metanarrative of OCD: Deconstructing Positive Stereotypes in Media and Popular Nomenclature.  6. The Metanarrative of Learning Disability: Vulnerability, Unworthiness, and Requiring Control.  7. The Metanarrative of Autism: Eternal Childhood and the Failure of Cure. 8. The Metanarrative of Down Syndrome: Proximity to Animality.  9. The Metanarrative of Dwarfism: Heightism and its Social Implications.  Part 3: Chronic Conditions and the Emergence of Disability.  10. The Metanarrative of Chronic Pain: Culpable, Duplicitous, and Miserable.  11. The Metanarrative of Diabetes: Should You Be Eating That?  12. The Metanarrative of Cancer: Disrupting the Battle Myth.  13. The Metanarrative of HIV and AIDS: Losing Track of an Epidemic. 14. The Metanarrative of Sarcoidosis: Life in Liminality.  15. The Metanarrative of Arthritis: Playing and Betraying the Endgame.