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.

Proposes a relational analysis to understand disability within a global context; theorizes disability in critical relationship to race, gender, and sexuality within the context of transnational capitalism This is an interdisciplinary text that spans the humanities and the social sciences in the areas of social theory, cultural studies, social and educational policy, feminist ethics and theories of citizenship From education to sociology and even poetry theory, disability studies is a growing discipline that offers a unique critique of our standards of normalcy and acceptance in our society; interest in this topic, among all fields of research will continue to increase and it is important that we include books with this focus on our lists

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

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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.

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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