‏361.00 ₪

THE BIOPOLITICS OF DISABILITY

‏361.00 ₪
ISBN13
9780472072712
יצא לאור ב
Ann Arbor
עמודים
280
פורמט
Hardback
תאריך יציאה לאור
6 בינו׳ 2015
שם סדרה
Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art
In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon "ablenationalism" and asserts that "inclusion" becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to governing norms of productivity and independence. Thus, the book pushes beyond questions of impairment to explore how disability subjectivities create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness. The focus is on the emergence of new crip/queer subjectivities at work in disability arts, disability studies pedagogy, independent and mainstream disability cinema (e.g., Midnight Cowboy), internet-based medical user groups, anti-normative novels of embodiment (e.g., Richard Powers's The Echo-Maker) and, finally, the labor of living in "non-productive" bodies within late capitalism.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 280
פורמט Hardback
ISBN10 0472072714
יצא לאור ב Ann Arbor
תאריך יציאה לאור 6 בינו׳ 2015