Disability and Social Theory

Disability and Social Theory New Developments and Directions Edited by Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes and Lennard Davis

Disability and Social Theory

Also by Dan Goodley DISABILITY STUDIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION FAMILIES WITH DISABLED CHILDREN: VALUES OF ENABLING CARE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (with J. McLaughlin, E. Clavering, P. Fisher, and C. Tregaskis) RESEARCHING LIFE STORIES: METHOD, THEORY AND ANALYSES IN A BIOGRAPHICAL AGE (with R. Lawthom, P. Clough and M. Moore) ARTS AGAINST DISABILITY: THE PERFORMING ARTS OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES (with M. Moore) SELF-ADVOCACY IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES: THE POLITICS OF RESILIENCE DISABILITY AND PSYCHOLOGY: CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS AND REFLECTIONS (co-edited with R. Lawthom) ANOTHER DISABILITY STUDIES READER: INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES (co-edited with G. van Hove) Also by Bill Hughes THE BODY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION (with P. Hancock, E. Jagger, K. Paterson, R. Russell, E. Tulle-Winton and M. Tyler) Also by Lennard Davis FACTUAL FICTIONS: THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL RESISTING NOVELS: FICTION AND IDEOLOGY LEFT POLITICS AND THE LITERARY PROFESSION (co-edited with M. B. Mirabella) ENFORCING NORMALCY: DISABILITY, DEAFNESS, AND THE BODY DISABILITY STUDIES READER MY SENSE OF SILENCE: MEMOIR OF A CHILDHOOD WITH DEAFNESS THE SONNETS: A NOVEL BENDING OVER BACKWARDS: DISMODERNISM, DISABILITY, AND OTHER DIFFICULT POSITIONS COUNTRY OF LOST CHILDREN: A NATURAL HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

Disability and Social Theory New Developments and Directions Edited by Dan Goodley University of Sheffield, UK Bill Hughes Glasgow Caledonian University, UK and Lennard Davis University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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The editors would like to dedicate this book to the memory of the disability activist and pioneering theorist Vic Finkelstein (1938 2011). While he may have disagreed with some of the arguments in this text we are confident that he would have supported the need for debate in understanding and challenging the conditions of disablism

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Table of Contents Notes on Contributors ix 1 Introducing Disability and Social Theory 1 Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes and Lennard Davis Part I Cultures 2 Civilising Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled People 17 Bill Hughes 3 Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of Disability in the Academy 33 Rebecca Mallett and Katherine Runswick-Cole 4 Disability and the Majority World: A Neocolonial Approach 52 Shaun Grech 5 Discourses of Disabled Peoples Organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu and Future Perspectives 70 Theo Blackmore and Stephen Lee Hodgkins Part II Bodies 6 Cyborgs, Cripples and icrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies 91 Donna Reeve 7 Theory, Impairment and Impersonal Singularities: Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben 112 James Overboe 8 The Body as the Problem of Individuality: A Phenomenological Disability Studies Approach 127 Tanya Titchkosky and Rod Michalko 9 Dancing with Disability: An Intersubjective Approach 143 Eimir McGrath Part III Subjectivities 10 Nomadology and Subjectivity: Deleuze, Guattari and Critical Disability Studies 161 Griet Roets and Rosi Braidotti 11 Jacques Lacan + Paul Hunt = Psychoanalytic Disability Studies 179 Dan Goodley vii

viii Table of Contents 12 Intellectual Disability Trouble: Foucault and Goffman on Challenging Behaviour 195 Karl Nunkoosing and Mark Haydon-Laurelut 13 Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose Abled Narcissism 212 Fiona Kumari Campbell Part IV Communities 14 Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studies 233 Rebecca Lawthom (with Tsitsi Chataika) 15 Disability, Development and Postcolonialism 252 Tsitsi Chataika 16 Engaging with Disability with Postcolonial Theory 270 Anita Ghai 17 Recognition, Respect and Rights: Women with Disabilities in a Globalised World 287 Carolyn Frohmader and Helen Meekosha 18 Conclusion: Disability and Social Theory 308 Bill Hughes, Dan Goodley and Lennard Davis Glossary 318 Index 336