Disability and Difference in Global Contexts explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.

Autorentext

Nirmala Erevelles is Associate Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of Alabama, USA.

Zusammenfassung
This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.

Inhalt
Making Bodies that Matter: The Political Economy of 'Becoming' (Disabled)
Of Ghosts and Ghetto Politics: Embodying Education Policy as if Disability Mattered
'Unspeakable' Offenses: Disability Studies at the Intersection of Multiple Differences (with Andrea Minear)
Embodied Antimonies: Feminist Disability Studies Meets Third World Feminism
(Im)Material Citizens: Cognitive Disability, Race, and the Politics of Citizenship
The 'Other' Side of the Dialectic: Towards a Materialist Ethic of Care <B