Disability and Difference in Global Contexts Enabling a Transformative Body Politic

by Erevelles, Nirmala

• ISBN13: 9780230100183
• ISBN10: 023010018X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Nirmala Erevelles is an associate professor of social foundations of education and instructional leadership in the Department of educational leadership, policy, and Technology Studies at the University of Alabama. She has published numerous articles in journals such as educational theory, disability and society, the American educational research journal, the journal of curriculum studies, among others. Her research interests are in transnational feminist theory, disability studies, and the sociology of education.

Table of Contents

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