Titlebook: Disability and Social Theory; New Developments and Dan Goodley,Bill Hughes,Lennard Davis Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmil

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Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose ‘Abled’ Narcissism all live and breathe ableist logic, our bodies and minds daily become aesthetic sculptures for the projection of how we wish to be known in our attempt to exercise competency, sexiness, wholeness and an atomistic existence. It is harder to find the language and space to examine the implications of

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Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studiesffers possibilities. Third, we outline how the theory can be utilised in a distinct disability employment project. Fourth, we evaluate its potential within this project and further afield. We ask questions about policy and practice and whether this approach can be linked to disability activism. What

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Introducing Disability and Social Theoryies have developed across, through and with disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. The extent to which disability illuminates and puts into practice social theory and, moreover, the potential of social theory to add to our understandings of disability are key themes of this book. This te

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Civilising Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled Peopleuring the same period, has been one of invalidation. Invalidation carries a ‘dual meaning’ as both ‘confinement through incapacity’ and ‘deficit of credibility’ (Hughes, 2000: 558). This (latter and more crucial) claim is based on the view that in the non-disabled imaginary disability is an ‘ontolog

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Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of ‘Disability’ in the Academyow Cake, 2006), novels (e.g. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2003), autobiographies (e.g. Grandin, 1996; Lawson, 2000), museum exhibitions (e.g. Welcome to Our World … Living with Autism, 2011) and newspaper articles (e.g. McNeil, 2009; Alleyne, 2010). In turn, these have attracted th

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Disability and the Majority World: A Neocolonial Approach rural areas and most suffer the brunt of disproportionate poverty. In spite of this, disability studies remains profoundly WENA (West European and North American) and focused exclusively on urban post-industrialist settings. In spite of this, its theories and tenets such as the social model of disa

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Discourses of Disabled Peoples’ Organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu and Future Perspectivese the rise of the disabled people’s movement in recent history, the development of DPOs and their gradual colonisation, moving from a radical political and social movement to pseudo-government agents. Using notions of power and resistance from Foucault, and capital, field and habitus from Bourdieu,

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Cyborgs, Cripples and iCrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies005 for conspicuous exceptions). Ironically, while the cyborg is supposedly about ‘transgressed boundaries’ and ‘potent fusions’, the starting point in any cyborg discussion is inevitably a ‘fully functioning human and a fully functioning machine’ (Quinlan and Bates, 2009: 51), an assumption which r

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The Body as the Problem of Individuality: A Phenomenological Disability Studies Approachon, [we] assume disability to be ontologically problematic, and many disabled people feel that many of the people with whom they interact in everyday situations treat them as if they are invisible, repulsive or “not all there”’. What interests us from a phenomenological perspective is that the conte