The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment - Brossura

Mitchell, David T.

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ISBN 10: 0472052713 ISBN 13: 9780472052714

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2015

Riassunto

In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion” becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to governing norms of productivity and independence. Thus, the book pushes beyond questions of impairment to explore how disability subjectivities create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness. The focus is on the emergence of new crip/queer subjectivities at work in disability arts, disability studies pedagogy, independent and mainstream disability cinema (e.g., Midnight Cowboy), internet-based medical user groups, anti-normative novels of embodiment (e.g., Richard Powers’s The Echo-Maker) and, finally, the labor of living in “non-productive” bodies within late capitalism.

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Informazioni sugli autori

David Mitchell is Professor of English and Sharon L. Snyder is a faculty member at George Washington University.

David Mitchell is Professor of English and Sharon L. Snyder is a faculty member at George Washington University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0472052713
• ISBN 13: 9780472052714
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 262
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile