Disability and Social Theory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introducing Disability and Social Theory

   1. Introducing Disability and Social Theory

      • Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes, Lennard Davis

      Pages 1-14

3. Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Civilising Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled People

      • Bill Hughes

      Pages 17-32

   3. Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of ‘Disability’ in the Academy

      • Rebecca Mallett, Katherine Runswick-Cole

      Pages 33-51

   4. Disability and the Majority World: A Neocolonial Approach

      • Shaun Grech

      Pages 52-69

   5. Discourses of Disabled Peoples’ Organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu and Future Perspectives

      • Theo Blackmore, Stephen Lee Hodgkins

      Pages 70-87

4. Bodies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Cyborgs, Cripples and iCrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies

      • Donna Reeve

      Pages 91-111

   3. Theory, Impairment and Impersonal Singularities: Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben

      • James Overboe

      Pages 112-126

   4. The Body as the Problem of Individuality: A Phenomenological Disability Studies Approach

      • Tanya Titchkosky, Rod Michalko

      Pages 127-142

   5. Dancing with Disability: An Intersubjective Approach

      • Eimir McGrath

      Pages 143-158

5. Subjectivities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Nomadology and Subjectivity: Deleuze, Guattari and Critical Disability Studies

      • Griet Roets, Rosi Braidotti

      Pages 161-178

   3. Jacques Lacan + Paul Hunt = Psychoanalytic Disability Studies

      • Dan Goodley

      Pages 179-194

   4. Intellectual Disability Trouble: Foucault and Goffman on ‘Challenging Behaviour’

      • Karl Nunkoosing, Mark Haydon-Laurelut

      Pages 195-211

   5. Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose ‘Abled’ Narcissism

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 212-230

6. Communities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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   2. Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studies

      • Rebecca Lawthom

      Pages 233-251

   3. Disability, Development and Postcolonialism

      • Tsitsi Chataika

      Pages 252-269

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class and nation.

• behavior
• gender
• Nation
• organization
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Recognition
• Sex
• social theory
• women

Recommended by Choice

'...this collection...should be on the bedside tables of those committed to working in partnership with disabled people.' - Hannah Morgan, Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University, British Journal of Social Work

• University of Sheffield, UK

  Dan Goodley

• Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

  Bill Hughes

• University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

  Lennard Davis

THEO BLACKMORE Strategic Liaison Manager for Disability Cornwall, UK ROSI BRAIDOTTI Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, The Netherlands FIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL Associate Professor & Deputy Head of Griffith Law School, Australia TSITSI CHATAIKA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University, South Africa CAROLYN FROHMADER is the Executive Director of Women With Disabilities Australia, Australia ANITA GHAI Associate Professor, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, India SHAUN GRECH Research Associate at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change (RIHSC), Manchester Metropolitan University, UK MARK HAYDON-LAURELUT Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UK REBECCA LAWTHOM Associate Professor in Community Practice at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK STEPHEN LEE HODGKINS Director of Disability LIB, UK REBECCA MALLETT Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK EIMIR MCGRATH is a Researcher at London Metropolitan University, UK HELEN MEEKOSHKA Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, University of South Wales, Australia KARL NUNKOOSING Principal Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK JAMES OVERBOE Associate Professor in Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada DONNA REEVE Honorary Research Fellow with the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) and Applied Social Science at Lancaster University, UK GRIET ROETS Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Welfare Studies, Ghent University, Belgium KATHERINE RUNSWICK-COLE Research Fellow in Disability Studies and Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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