{"title":"Disability: social aspects Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"go-the-way-your-blood-beats-9780241570531","title":"Go the Way Your Blood Beats","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980s LONDON\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. 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In Irony and Outrage, political and media psychologist Dannagal Goldthwaite Young explores the aesthetics, underlying logics, and histories of these two seemingly distinct genres, making the case that they should be thought of as the logical extensions of the psychology of the left and right, respectively. One genre is guided by ambiguity, play, deliberation, and openness, while the other is guided by certainty, vigilance, instinct, and boundaries. While the audiences for Sean Hannity and John Oliver come from opposing political ideologies, both are high in political interest, knowledge, and engagement, and both lack faith in many of our core democratic institutions. Young argues that the roles that these two genres play for their viewers are strikingly similar: galvanizing the opinion of the left or the right, mobilizing citizens around certain causes, and expressing a frustration with traditional news coverage while offering alternative sources of information and meaning. One key way in which they differ, however, concludes Young, is in their capacity to be exploited by special interests and political elites. Drawing on decades of research on political and media psychology and media effects, as well as historical accounts and interviews with comedians and comedy writers, Young unpacks satire''s liberal bias and juxtaposes it with that of outrage''s conservative bias. She details how traits like tolerance for ambiguity and the motivation to engage with complex ideas shape our preferences for art, music, and literature; and how those same traits correlate with political ideology. 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Students will find it engaging to read and valuable for sorting out debates on topical issues. * Journal of Sociology \u0026amp; Social Welfare *\u003cbr\u003eIf you love political comedy or opinion shows, or if you hate them, or if you're just concerned about the sorry state of our polarized country, you'll enjoy reading this book. Young gives the best explanation I've seen as to why political shows on the left and right are so different-and so important as shapers of American politics. * Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind *\u003cbr\u003eDannagal Young's Irony and Outrage is a scholarly and deep, well-researched, and unique study into the history, politics, and psychology behind how and why we, the people, pick and choose the media we consume. Also, I loved the parts where she interviews comedians and they say funny things. Irony and Outrage is a thought-provoking, enlightening, and very fun read! * Ed Greenberg, The Committee and The Second City *\u003cbr\u003eAs a political journalist who's spent way too much time on the conservative convention circuit, I've seen way too many unfunny right-wing comedians do terrible Barack Obama impressions, and I happily muted Mike Huckabee's gravy-based joke routine on Twitter a long time ago. But as Dannagal Young's Irony and Outrage shows us, exploring the age-old question of why aren't conservatives funny reveals so much much more about the American political character than we might admit. The types of media that liberals and conservatives create and choose to engage with are actually natural expressions of our psychologies, our needs, and our personalities. This book is essential reading in our polarized and outraged times; it turns out that what we watch and how we laugh correlate closely to how we vote. * Peter Hamby, Snapchat's Good Luck America *\u003cbr\u003eIn this engaging tour de force, Professor Dannagal Goldthwaite Young upends conventional wisdom about the ancestry, function, effects, and synergies between the satire of the left and outraged opinion talk of the right. * Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003eDannagal Young's book made me laugh when she quoted comedians and -when when I wasn't chuckling-it made me consider her argument and reconsider some of my own. If you have an appetite for an academic overview of political discourse in our country and in our time, this book should satisfy that hunger. * Alan Myerson, Director of The Second City and co-founder of The Committee *\u003cbr\u003ePainstakingly-researched, yet irresistibly accessible, Irony and Outrage is a monumental contribution to our thinking about American political comedy, certain to be widely assigned and cited in political science, communications, psychology, and media studies for years to come. Young builds an engaging and provocative argument-challenging readers' assumptions about the very origins of our political tastes and preferences in a way that is bound to inspire robust debate (and perhaps even a little outrage) among fans, pundits, and academics alike. * Sarah Sobieraj, co-author of The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Prologue Chapter 1: The Counterculture Comics versus the Hate Clubs of the Air Chapter 2: Political and Technological Changes That Created Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly Chapter 3: Outrage and Satire as Responses and Antidotes Chapter 4: The Psychology of Satire Chapter 5: Who Gets the Joke? 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The book identifies three tensions in the current literature that have thus far prevented a general theory of political communication. The first is a vague understanding of what it means for media to exercise independence from politics. The second is a focus on media in wealthy, Western, and democratic countries. The third is a tendency to build interpretive frameworks that pose as theories, but that cannot be tested. To address these three tensions, this book adapts, refines, and extends the Politics-Media-Politics (PMP) principle, which states that variations in political ecosystems have a major impact on media systems, values, practices, and resource\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany good ideas take a decade to mature. That is also the case in this book. Eminent colleagues Wolfsfeld, Sheafer, and Althaus have written a compelling and inspiring 'big picture' book. Their Politics-Media-Politics approach provides a broad framework and a refreshing lens through which to see political communication theorizing. The endeavour is ambitious and likely to inform a new decade of political communication scholarship. * Claes de Vreese, Professor of Political Communication, University of Amsterdam *\u003cbr\u003eIn an era of increasingly complex media and political ecosystems, Wolfsfeld, Sheafer, and Althaus' theorizing offers a much-needed prism through which to view sociopolitical developments. Integrating disparate findings across fields and over time and space, their Politics-Media-Politics principle and conceptual map speak incisively to both democratic theory and practice. This big-thinking book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how our world operates today. * Patricia Moy, Christy Cressey Professor of Communication, University of Washington *\u003cbr\u003eI have often used the PMP principle in my work and teaching as it helps to understand and clarify the complex interactions between politicians and journalists. This ambitious book extends, updates, and deepens the original PMP framework so it can be used in more (non-Western) contexts and in today's political information environment. The authors sketch a sophisticated roadmap, supported by examples from across the globe, that will allow political communication studies to speak to each other and stay on track. * Peter Van Aelst, Professor in Political Communication, University of Antwerp, Belgium *\u003cbr\u003eThis book provides the most ambitious attempt so far to integrate almost the entire field of political communication into a single framework. 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This book is for anyone who wants to immerse into a world of beauty, who wants to get real about the roots of their desire, and who can't quite kick the habit of admiring the structures-and humans-who harm them. The questions she raises will resound in your head for a long time to come. * Lulu Fisher, author of Why Fish Don't Exist and host of Radiolab *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is utterly remarkable. \u003cb\u003eI was spellbound\u003c\/b\u003e by the style, the ideas, the vulnerability, the talent. * Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDazzling \u003c\/b\u003e. . . Chloe Cooper Jones challenges society's rules of attraction with razor-sharp wit and intellect . . .[and) makes a brilliant case for the beauty of complexity * Starred Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExquisite\u003c\/b\u003e. Here Pulitzer finalist Jones reflects on our standards of beauty from the perspective of a disabled woman whose rare congenital condition affects her stature and gait, and leaves her in constant pain. But it's ultimately motherhood that liberates her, and prompts her to re-examine the limitations she has accepted as givens. * O Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eJones challenges the unspoken social taboos about the disabled body, unpacking myths of beauty and our complicity in upholding those myths. Blending journalism, philosophy, and memoir, it's \u003cb\u003ea book that everyone will be talking about\u003c\/b\u003e. * Lit Hub *\u003cbr\u003eA memoir full of insight as the author tries to wrestle understanding and ownership of herself from a world still eager to assert its sovereignty over the female body. * Jarred McGinnis, author of The Coward *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA soul-stretching, breathtaking existential memoir \u003c\/b\u003echronicles her reclaiming of body, mind, and self . . . 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Speculating on Upstanding Norms, \u003ci\u003eAshley Shew (Virginia Tech, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 19. Case Study: M Eifler’s Prosthetic Memory as Speculative Archive, \u003ci\u003eLindsey D. Felt (Stanford University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 20. Case Study: The Way Ahead, \u003ci\u003eCaroline Cardus (Independent Artist, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 21. Case Study: Customizing Reading: Harvey Lauer’s “Reading Machine of the Future”, \u003ci\u003eMara Mills (New York University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 22. Case Study: “Captioning on Captioning” with Shannon Finnegan, \u003ci\u003eLouise Hickman (University of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 23. Case Study: A Squishy House, \u003ci\u003eEmily Watlington (\u003c\/i\u003eArt in America, \u003ci\u003eUSA)\u003c\/i\u003e 24. Case Study: Black Disabled Joy as an Act of Resistance, \u003ci\u003eJen White-Johnson (Bowie State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  List of Contributors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738609267031,"sku":"9781350241510","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350241510.jpg?v=1720049640"},{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-guide-to-philosophy-of-disability-9781350268906","title":"The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability\u003c\/i\u003e is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and understood in philosophy: it critically undermines the detrimental assumptions that various subfields of philosophy produce; resists the institutionalized ableism of academia to which these assumptions contribute; and boldly articulates new anti-ableist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, and decolonial insights and perspectives that counter these assumptions.  This rebellious and groundbreaking book's chaptersmost of which have been written by disabled philosophersare wide-ranging in scope and invite a broad readership. 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Would you Kill the Fat Man Hypothetical? Fat Stigma in Philosophy, \u003ci\u003eKristin Rodier (Athabasca University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSamantha Brennan (University of Guelph, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. Pruriently Feared: Theoretical Erasure of the Disabled Black Male, \u003ci\u003eTommy J. Curry (University of Edinburgh, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Disability, Dissonance, and Resistance: A Musical Dialogue, \u003ci\u003eLicia Carlson (Providence College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Neurodiversity, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Politics of Mental Health,\u003ci\u003e Robert Chapman (Durham University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  6. Disability and African Philosophy, \u003ci\u003eJulie E. Maybee (Lehman College, CUNY, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePart II: Mechanisms of Oppression\u003c\/b\u003e 7. The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration, \u003ci\u003eAndrea J. Pitts (University of Buffalo, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  8. Disability, Ableism, Class, and Chronic Fatigue, \u003ci\u003eMich Ciurria (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Missouri at St. Louis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  9. Algorithms as Ableist Orientation Devices: The Technosocial Inheritance of Colonialism and Ableism, \u003ci\u003eJohnathan Flowers (California State University, Northridge, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  10. The Art of Kinship: An Intersectional Reading of Assisted Reproductive Practices, \u003ci\u003eDesiree Valentine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Marquette University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Authority on Autism, \u003ci\u003eAmandine Catala\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePart III: Phenomenologies of Access and Exclusion\u003c\/b\u003e  12. Disability, Access, and the Promise of Inclusion: Returning to Institutional Language through a Phenomenological Lens, \u003ci\u003eCorinne Lajoie (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  13. Stuttering and Ableism: A Study of Eventfulness, \u003ci\u003eJoshua St. Pierre (University of Alberta, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Frantz Fanon and Disability: Frictions and Solidarities, \u003ci\u003eEmily R. Douglas (Athabasca University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  15. Exemption, \u003ci\u003eSelf-\u003c\/i\u003eexemption, and Compassionate Self-excuse, \u003ci\u003eSofia Jeppsson (Umeå Universitet, Sweden)\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Pathologizing Disabled and Trans Identities: How Emotions Become Marginalized, \u003ci\u003eGen Eickers (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Disabling Normativities\u003c\/b\u003e  17. A Crip Reading of Filipino Philosophy, \u003ci\u003eÉlaina Gauthier-Mamaril (University of Edinburgh, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  18. Recognizing Human Flourishing in the Context of Disability, \u003ci\u003eJordan Joseph Wadden (The University of British Columbia, Canada) and Tim Stainton (The University of British Columbia, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  19. Neurodiversity and the Ethics of Access, \u003ci\u003eAugust Gorman (Oakland University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  20. The Ethics of Disability Passing and Uncovering in the Philosophy Classroom, \u003ci\u003eJoseph A. Stramondo (San Diego State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  21. Inclusive Ethics: A Precautionary Principle, \u003ci\u003eStephanie Jenkins (Oregon State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePart V: Resisting Epistemologies\u003c\/b\u003e  22. Risking Ourselves, Together: The Politics and Persons of Risk, \u003ci\u003eMelinda C. Hall (Stetson University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  23. Disablement and Ageism, \u003ci\u003eChristine Overall\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Queen’s University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e  24. 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His aim is to challenge and also help the reader who self-defines as 'normal'- be they talking therapist, body therapist, client or anyone else - to interrogate their own normality, and hopefully to relinquish the word and all the privileges it brings. It is time, he writes, 'to dismantle that identity, pull down that statue, abandon that high plinth and rest on the solid ground of difference'. Then, he argues, psychotherapy practitioners may be in a position to learn from their clients how best to work with them.The book addresses differences of bodily capacity, gender and lifestyle differences, differences of skin colour and neuro differences. It also tackles differences between the human and non-human beings who inhabit the Earth. 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Totton has managed once again to blend theory and practice to the benefit of clinicians of all levels of experience. The book is a call for discussion and for action lest we continue to do damage while seeking to do good.'-- Professor Andrew Samuels, author of Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics -- 'In this radical and beautifully emancipatory work, Nick Totton dismantles the concept of ‘normal people’, shows how the cultural construction of ‘normality’ lurks at the root of multiple forms of social power inequality and alienation, and makes a compelling case for abandoning the whole notion that anyone is ‘normal’ so that we can more fully embrace human variation and equality. Although Totton is a noted psychotherapist and concludes each section of the book with insights on integrating these ideas into therapy, Different Bodies is really for everyone – a must-read for students and professionals in the social sciences, for educators and managers, and for anyone who’s ever thought of themselves as ‘normal’ or worried that they weren’t. Written in clear, friendly, accessible language, this book is a crowning achievement of Totton’s long and brilliant career – a book with the power to change lives and help us to usher in a better tomorrow.' -- Nick Walker, PhD, author of Neuroqueer Heresies -- 'This groundbreaking book offers a necessary re-orientation for body psychotherapy that challenges from the inside notions to do with normativity. I read it with relief, finding in it anchors and stepping stones to explore what inclusivity means from an embodied intersectional perspective. I appreciate the searingly enfleshed way Totton challenges us to look at our biases, reminding us that the main site of oppression is in our bodies, and that our cognitive bias towards the normative body has to be resolutely unpacked so that there is a possibility of critiquing and changing our own somaticism and normativism. I see this work as essential reading for psychotherapy students. It will be on our reading list for sure.' -- Anne Marie Keary , Course leader, Body and Intersectionality, Minster Centre, London -- 'In Different Bodies, Nick Totton takes the bubbling concerns, challenges, identified and unidentified blindspots in perceptions of bodies, gathers the threads and pulls the whole concept of embodiment forward in one agile movement. This book is deft, provocative and refreshingly alive in its engagement with the fast-developing field of thinking about diversity. This is an astute synthesis of ethics, therapy, social justice, philosophy, feminism, queer thinking, anti-racism, disability theory, neurodiversity research, literature, political analysis, ecology and much more… Totton manages the extraordinary feat of being both erudite – with a stunningly broad range of references – and yet very down to earth and clear in his writing. He addresses the complexities, contradictions, and the endemic prejudices that have shaped our modern culture. But – to use his image – he is willing to pull down the statue. He re-examines the foundations and proposes – with humility and full acknowledgement of others’ contributions – new ways of thinking and languaging around many aspects of diversity. This is a book everyone needs to read – it goes so wide that I guarantee no one can say they understand all this or they have heard it before. Nick Totton brings into the foreground the voices of a dynamic, articulate, colourful, rebellious and celebratory countermovement. This is a radical updating of what embodiment means and can be.' -- Roz Carroll, co-editor of What is Normal? Psychotherapists Explore the Question -- 'Different Bodies is an invitation and clarion call to go beyond questioning and reflecting into a far deeper and more vulnerable place of confronting our own pictures and ways of processing. Nick brings everything he has to this invitation – his passion, strength, determination to understand more, his humility and his humanity.  He also brings a compassionate understanding of how he, you, they and I can struggle to embrace our much-needed relational development. I experience his book as inviting me into the unknown, over and over. It is a glorious and difficult challenge, framed in the honouring of many writers, thinkers and activists and moving what is seen as the marginal to the centre. I am deeply grateful for Nick's critique and his support for us all to do better.' -- Carmen Joanne Ablack, President of European Association for Body Psychotherapy and Director of Psychotherapy Gestalt Centre London -- 'Nick challenges our concepts of normality, normal bodies, normal brains, normal genders and invites us to examine ourselves, rather than focus on others. Exploring gender and neurodiversity is very on-point, and for therapists this is absolutely essential reading right now. The book is informative and challenging. Heartily recommended! Especially if you are cisgender, heterosexual and neurotypical.' -- Dominic Davies, trainer, clinical sexologist and practice consultant, founder of Pink Therapy -- 'Nick Totton’s Different Bodies is a welcome contribution to psychotherapy. It invites us to question what counts as normal and how ideas about normality impact psychotherapeutic work with clients. Using critical race theory, disability studies, queer theory, transgender studies, body and animal studies, Totton asks what it means to be human. He advocates for a turn to animals and animal studies along with nature to displace ‘human supremacy’ in the psychotherapeutic encounter. This book will be of interest to psychotherapists interested in ethics, environmentalism. and social justice. It will also appeal to those who live by choice, or necessity, outside and apart from white, masculine, cisgender, able-bodied, and heterosexual ideas about normality.' -- Sheila L. Cavanagh, Professor at York University, Ontario\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, Part 1 - Making a difference, 1. Normality creates difference, 2. Able - to do what? 3. Every body is different (differently) Implications for Therapy - Part 1, Part 2 - Other-wise, 4. Bodies of thought, 5. Different other-wisdoms, 6. 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