Disability: social aspects Books

Book SynopsisBuilding on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and âothersâ, including dyslexics, autistics and ADHDers.This is the first work of its kind to bring cutting-edge research across disciplines to the concept of neurodiversity. It offers in-depth explorations of the themes of cure/prevention/eugenics; neurodivergent wellbeing; cross-neurotype communication; neurodiversity at work; and challenging brain-bound cognition. It analyses the role of neuro-normativity in theorising agency, and a proposal for a new alliance between the Hearing Voices Movement and neurodiversity. In doing so, we contribute to a cultural imperative to redefine what it means to be human. To this end, we propose a new field of enquiry that finds ways to support the inclusion of neurodivergent perspectives in knowledge production, and which questTrade Review"This must-read research-based text represents a step-change in our understanding of neurodiversity; challenging old assumptions, generating new knowledge and understandings of importance to us all. Written by editors and authors who really know what they are talking about, and organised around five key themes, it builds on critical race theory, feminist and queer studies, connects with disability and Mad Studies, to explore a new and important field – Neurodiversity Studies."Peter Beresford, Professor of Citizen Participation at the University of Essex, UK, and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national user led organisation."The increasing recognition that there is no 'normal' brain type against which all others must be judged pathological is having a transformative effect on every aspect of society: on employment, education, research, public policy, and how we conceive of the minds of other people. This book makes an important contribution to the evolving scholarly discourse around neurodiversity by centering the voices and experiences of neurodivergent people."Steve Silberman, author of the prize-winning "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity". "There is SO MUCH here. The essays by Alyssa Hillary and Matthew Belmonte alone are worth the cost of the book. Neurodiversity advances, less like an army than like an ecosystem after a fire. Growth and renewal beyond measure."Ralph James Savarese, Professor of English, Grinnell College and author of "See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor"."Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm is interesting, enjoyable and thought provoking, and I think its theoretical discourse and positions have clear constructive practical implications which really matter."Dinah Murray, autism researcher and campaigner productiveirritant.org. "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm provides a deep-dive into the complex world of autism and the neurologically different. Ranging through the humanities, social sciences, philosophy, ethics, and communication studies, among other areas, the book breaks new ground in the academic study of the inner worlds and sensoria of a significant portion of the population too often ignored politically while over-treated medically."Lennard J. Davis, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Arts and Sciences, and also Professor of Disability and Human Development in the School of Applied Health Sciences and Professor of Medical Education in the University of Illinois College of Medicine, USA."This superb collection builds upon previous efforts of scholars and activists to decentre normative assumptions of what it is to be human and create an interdisciplinary discursive space, formulating neurodiversity studies as a new field of enquiry ... highly recommended would be an understatement!" Dr Damian Milton, Lecturer in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, University of Kent, National Autistic Society as Autism Knowledge and Expertise Consultant and chair of the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC). Table of ContentsIntroduction Curing Neurodivergence/Eugenics1. The Production of the ‘Normal’ Child: Neurodiversity and the Commodification of Parenting 2. Language Games Used to Construct Pathological Autism 3. Is There an Ethical Case for the Prevention and/or Cure of Autism? Neurodivergent Wellbeing4. Neurodiversity, Disability, Wellbeing 5. Neurodiversity in a Neurotypical World: An Enactive Framework for Investigating Autism and Social Institutions Cross-Neurotype Communication6. Neurodiversity and Cross-Cultural Communication 7. Understanding Empathy Through a Study of Autistic Life Writing: On the Importance of Neurodiverse Morality 8. Sensory Strangers: Travels in Normate Sensory Worlds Neurodiversity at Work9. Practical Scholarship: Optimising Beneficial Research Collaborations Between Autistic Scholars, Professional Services Staff and ‘Typical Academics’ in UK Universities 10. Designing an Autistic Space for Research: Exploring the Impact of Context, Space, and Sociality in Autistic Writing Processes 11. How Individuals and Institutions Can Learn to Make Room for Human Cognitive Diversity: A Personal Perspective from My Life in Neuroscience Challenging Brain-Bound Cognition12. Understanding Autistic Individuals: Cognitive Diversity not Theoretical Deficit Moving Forwards 13. Neuronormativity in Theorising Agency: An Argument for a Critical Neurodiversity Approach 14. Defining Neurodiversity for Research and Practice 15. A New Alliance? The Hearing Voices Movement and Neurodiversity Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSocial Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech. In short, the disabled researcher is not considered when outlining the requirements of particular methods. Drawing upon these considerations, the volume emphasizes how disabled researchers negotiate the empirical process, in light of disability, whilst retaining the scientific rigour of the method. It also considers the negative consequences arising from disabled researchers' attempts at passing and the benefits that can emerge from a reflexive approach to method. This innovative and original text will, for the first time, bring together research-active academics, who identify as being disabled, to consider experiences of being disabled within a largely ableist academy, as well as strategies employed and issues faced when conducting eTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Navigating the Academy 1. Owning My Room: Building a Safe, Accessible and Productive Space for Student Researchers with Complex Communication Disabilities 2. On the Outside Looking In?: Reflections on Being a Disabled Social and Feminist Geographer 3. A Closer Look at ‘Wheelchair’ Ethnography: Ableism and the Insights Disabled Scholars Generate with - not despite - Their Impairments and Disabilities 4. Dilemmas of Identity Disclosure and Provision of Disability Support Part 2: Conducting Research "In the Field" 5. The Continuing Adventures of a Four-Legged Female Academic 6. 10 Affects of Hidden, Mental Dis/Abilities and the Act of Disclosure 7. Lived Experience Researchers: The Power of Recovery from Mental Health Challenges Part 3: Shifting Methodologies 8. Unsettling Ableism in Research Traditions: Toward Establishing Blind Methodologies 9. Deaf Research Methodologies? Confronting Epistemological Silences and Challenges in Qualitative Research 10. "Repeat After Me": Gestalt, Fluency and Biographical Research Editorial Reflections

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Book SynopsisThis Element illustrates how protest around longstanding issues and grievances is punctuated by movement dynamics as well as broader cultural and institutional environments. It examines sixty years of protest across numerous issue areas that matter for disability.

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Book SynopsisOutlining the key developments of the Disability Hate Crime policy agenda, this book analyses the contributions of activists, politicians, policy makers and criminal justice system practitioners and recommends progressive policy changes.

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Book SynopsisEverything you need to know about recognising and diagnosing ADHD in women, and how to live a full and fulfilling life after When Julie Legg was diagnosed with ADHD at age 52, suddenly her life made sense. Bringing together her own experience along with research studies and personal stories from other Kiwi women with ADHD, this book is a go-to reference no matter where you are in your journey.It covers the different presentations of ADHD, understanding how the brain works, why girls are underdiagnosed, traits and triggers, the value of an assessment, choosing (or not) medication, freeing yourself from shame, and tips for living and thriving with ADHD.Dispelling myths and opening a lid on the real experiences of the one-in-twenty women who have found their own missing piece, The Missing Piece is an informative and empowering guide to knowing and loving yourself.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses a growing demand to hear the authentic voices and understand the lived tourist experiences of people with disability. The latest volume in The Tourist Experience series challenges what is arguably an exclusionary, marginalising, discriminatory, and ableist (tourism) world.

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Book SynopsisEmbedded in personal experiences, this collection explores ableism in academia. Through theoretical lenses including autobiography, autoethnography, embodiment, body work and emotional labour, contributors explore being 'othered' in academia and provide practical examples to develop inclusive universities and a less ableist environment.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being ‘different’ in academia ~ Nicole Brown PART I: Ways of knowing A leg to stand on: irony, autoethnography and ableism in the academy ~ Laura L. Ellingson “There’s no place for emotions in academia”: experiences of the neoliberal academy as a disabled scholar ~ Angharad Butler-Rees Embodiment and authenticity: how embodied research might shed light on experiences of disability and chronic illness ~ Jennifer Leigh What’s in a word? Rephrasing and reframing disability ~ Sharon Smith Intermezzo PART II: Lived experiences Colour blindness in academia: the challenges of an invisible impairment ~ Oliver Daddow Stammering in academia: voice in the management of self and others ~ Robert H. Mann and Bryan C. Clift Losing my voice (physically and metaphorically) ~ Jeanne Barczewska Deafness and hearing loss in higher education ~ Nicole Brown Living with collagenous colitis as a busy academic: chronic illness and the intersection of age and gender inequality ~ Rosalind Janssen Three cheers for Access to Work partnership: two cheers for Two Ticks and one question about a university-wide self-disclosure scheme ~ Chris Mounsey and Stan Booth “I’m not saying this to be petty”: reflections on making disability visible while teaching ~ Emma Sheppard #AutisticsInAcademia ~ Chloe Farahar and Annette Foster “I’ve always wanted to be a nurse …”: challenging academic ableist assumptions ~ Jo Sullivan Ableism in music academicism ~ Ben Lunn Teaching with and supporting teachers with dyslexia in higher education ~ Jennifer Hiscock and Jennifer Leigh Depressed academics: building a group blog community ~ Mikael Vejdemo- Johansson and Ian P. Gent Cancer, bereavement and work ~ Nicola Martin Invisible disabilities and (re)negotiating identity: life after major traumatic injury ~ Clare Lewis Conclusion: Disability imaginary of the future ~ Nicole Brown

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Book SynopsisThis special issue brings together explorations of crip temporality: the ways in which bodily and mental disabilities shape the experience of time. These include needing to use time-consuming adaptive technologies like screen readers, working slowly during a pain flare-up, or only being able to look at a screen for short periods. Through accessibly written essays, art, and poems, contributors explore both the confines of crip temporality and the freedoms it provides. They offer strategies and narratives for navigating the academy as a disabled person; reclaim self-care as a tool for personal survival instead of productivity; and illustrate how crip time is mobilized in service of biopolitical projects. More than just a space of loss and frustration, they argue, crip time also offers liberatory potential: the contributors imagine how justice, connection, and pleasure might emerge from temporalities that center compassion rather than productivity. Contributors Moya Bailey, Amanda Cac

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Book SynopsisImagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as activists and politicians had hoped. In Crip Negativity, J. Logan Smilges shows us what’s gone wrong and what we can do to fix it.Leveling a strong critique of the category of disability and liberal disability politics, Smilges asks and imagines what horizons might exist for the liberation of those oppressed by ableism—beyond access and inclusion. Inspired by models of negativity in queer studies, Black studies, and crip theory, Smilges proposes that bad crip feelings might help all of us to care gently for one another, even as we demand more from the world than we currently believe to be possible.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

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Book SynopsisSpread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways in which the modern phenomenon of disability is shaped by capitalist economic and social relations. The essays range in analysis from the theoretical to the topical, including but not limited to: the emergence of disability as a “human category” rooted in the rise of industrial capitalism and the transformation of the conditions of work, family, and society corresponding thereto; a critique of the shortcomings of a purely “civil rights approach” to addressing the persistence of disability oppression in the economic sphere, with a particular focus on the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; an examination of the changing position of disabled people within the overall system of capitalist production utilizing the Marxist economic concepts of the reserve army of the unemployed, the labor theory of value, and the exploitation of wage-labor; the effects of neoliberal capitalist policies on the living conditions and social position of disabled people as it pertains to welfare, income assistance, health care, and other social security programs; imperialism and war as a factor in the further oppression and immiseration of disabled people within the United States and globally; and the need to build unity against the divisive tendencies which hide the common economic interest shared between disabled people and the often highly-exploited direct care workers who provide services to the former.Trade Review"Discovering Marta Russell’s work was a watershed moment for my family, changing not just how we saw ourselves as able-bodied or disabled individuals but how we understood the modern world. It led us to a new understanding of disability as a political issue, a social condition embedded in economic structures of exploitation and oppression, not simply a product of personal embodiment. To have any hope of building an accessible future, more people are going to need to read Russell and this collection is the place to begin.” —Astra Taylor

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Book SynopsisIn The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production. Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this disavowal. By tracing the coproduction of the categories of disabled and transgender in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and analyzing transmasculine literature and theory by Eli Clare, Elliott DeLine, Dylan Scholinski, and others, Awkward-Rich suggests that thinking with maladjustment might provide new perspectives on the impasses arising from the conflicted relationships among trans, feminist, and queer. In so doing, he demonstrates that rather than only impeding or confining trans life, thought, and creativity, forms of maladjustment have also been and will continue to be central to their development.Table of ContentsPreface/Acknowledgments vii Introduction: On Staying with the Terrible We 1 1. Disabled Histories of Trans 31 Holding Space 61 2. Trans, Feminism: Or, Reading Like a Depressed Transsexual 67 3. Some Dissociative Trans Masc Poetics 89 4. We's Company 117 Afterword/Elegy 143 Notes 151 Bibliography 171 Index 187

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Book SynopsisThis vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.Liat Ben-Moshe provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability’s rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.Trade Review"Decarcerating Disability is a groundbreaking feminist study of the affinities, interrelations, and contradictions between prison abolition and psychiatric deinstitutionalization. Emphasizing the need for a more expansive field of critical carceral studies, Liat Ben-Moshe compellingly demonstrates the important lessons we can discover through serious engagements with radical disability movements. Scholars and activists alike should read this book without delay!"—Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz"In Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe carefully and incisively models an intersectional approach to abolition grounded in feminist, queer, and crip of color critique. Moving beyond demands for inclusion and critiques of overrepresentation, Ben-Moshe makes a powerful and persuasive case for a disability studies that recognizes state violence as central to its work and the carceral industrial complex as a site for queer coalitions for racial and disability justice. In so doing, she paves the way for thinking not only disability and disability studies differently, but also liberation itself."—Alison Kafer, University of Texas at Austin"Decarcerating Disability is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding and dismantling the interlocking systems of incarceration that shape the contemporary political landscape and shorten so many lives. Liat Ben-Moshe shows how the effectiveness of abolitionist work has been limited by the marginalization of disability and anti-sanism analysis and advocacy. She not only exposes how much contemporary abolitionists have to learn from historical struggles for deinstitutionalization, she also demonstrates a more truly intersectional method of abolitionist scholar-activism that we urgently need. This book is both a corrective intervention and a path-breaking tool for developing better strategy toward the world that those who seek liberation are fighting to build."—Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law"Ben-Moshe outlines how people fought for a new paradigm in mental health treatment before. Beginning in the 1960s, widespread deinstitutionalization sparked by disability activists shut down asylums across the country. Many see this movement now as a failure because it led to more people with mental illness being herded into jails and prisons. But Ben-Moshe argues that this was a pivotal step in abolition by grassroots organizing."—Teen Vogue"Examining decarceration and deinstitutionalisation within the same frame is vitally important...the book challenges us to think about the range of carceral facilities that exist."—Race & Class"A groundbreaking connection between disability justice and prison abolition."—Public Books "Decarcerating Disability should be read not only by students and scholars of African-American studies, criminology, critical theory, gender studies, law, or sociology, nor only by policy makers, but by all who are concerned about disability, gender, or racial justice."—American Journal of Sociology "Each chapter of Decarcerating Disability serves as a fantastic example of the knowledges, perspectives, and genealogies that are made possible when disability and madness are the lenses through which a queer of color critique is engaged."—Disability Studies Quarterly"Decarcerating Disability is an impressive text that powerfully argues for robust coalitional politics to challenge the logic of incarceration. Entire syllabi and reading groups can be structured around this text as Ben-Moshe opens up much to consider, especially how to effectively demand carceral-free futures, while also valuing disability. "—Ethnic Studies Review"Decarcerating disability: Deinstitutionalization and prison abolition is abold and challenging critical intervention, which puts critical disability studies, deinstitutionalisation, decarceration, and abolition theory and scholarship into closer conversation with each other. In so doing, the book has pushed these fields forward in new and, interesting ways. The book’s strongest contribution is its attempt to transform, redefine, and reframe what disability studies is and can be about, its appeal to frame and address issues of incarceration and decarceration as disability and carceral abolition issues, and the generative groundwork laid for fostering coalitional, liberatory politics and ideas."—Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology"[A]n important book that offers both a sweeping genealogy of disability and itsentangled history with race and incarceration, and rallying cry for abolitionism."—Journal of Constructivist Psychology"Ben-Moshe offers a detailed history of institutionalization and incarceration primarily in the United States. In putting institutionalization and incarceration in conversation, Ben-Moshe offers a larger consideration around the systems that keep certain individuals enclosed and the implications of deinstitutionalization as a movement versus louder for total prison abolition. A major intervention of Ben-Moshe’s book is the different approaches to and opinions of institutions as opposed to prison systems across the United States."—Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: The Case for Intersecting Disability, Imprisonment, and Deinstitutionalization1. The Perfect Storm: Origin Stories of Deinstitutionalization2. Abolition in Deinstitutionalization: Normalization and the Myth of Mental Illness 3. Abolition as Knowledge and Ways of Unknowing4. Why Prisons Are Not “the New Asylums”5. Resistance to Inclusion and Community Living: NIMBY, Desegregation, and Race-Ability6. Political and Affective Economies of Closing Carceral Enclosures7. Institutional and Prison Reform Litigation: From Politicization to the Governable Iron CageEpilogue: Abolition NowAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.Trade ReviewThis is a wonderful book, made better by Sacks' exceptionally gentle descriptions of patients. He also captures the unimaginable sadness of the Pacific. * Spectator *There is no one at the present time who writes like Oliver Sacks . . . He is a superb clinician who can take a seemingly arid and obscure medical condition, and convert it into a moving, personal odyssey, a testament of tenacity, courage and will. * Literary Review *Dr Sacks is an elegant and beguiling writer, and when he describes a condition such as achromatopsia (total colour-blindness), he is not content merely to describe it from the outside, but he tries to imagine what the world is like to a person with the condition. * Sunday Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisIn Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that individual accommodations-the primary way universities address accessibility-actually impede access rather than enhance it. She argues that the pains and injustices encountered by academia's disabled workers result in their living and working in realities different from nondisabled colleagues: a unique experience of space, time, and being that Price theorizes as crip spacetime. She explores how disability factors into the exclusionary practices found in universities, with multiply marginalized academics facing the greatest harms. Highlighting the knowledge that disabled academics already possess about how to achieve sustainable forms of access, Price boldly calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care.

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Book SynopsisMidwest Book Review 2023 Silver Book Award (Nonfiction - Religion/Philosophy) "A convincing case for all Christians to do more to meet access needs and embrace disabilities as part of God's kingdom. . . . Inclusivity-minded Christians will cheer the lessons laid out here."--Publishers Weekly "A book the church desperately needs."--Sojourners Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection, says Amy Kenny. It is time for the church to start treating disabled people as full members of the body of Christ who have much more to offer than a miraculous cure narrative and to learn from their embodied experiences. Written by a disabled Christian, this book shows that the church is missing out on the prophetic witness and blessing of disability. Kenny reflects on her experiences inside the church to expose unintentional ableism and cast a new vision for Christian communities to engage disability justice. She shows that until we cultivate church spaces where people with disabilities can fully belong, flourish, and lead, we are not valuing the diverse members of the body of Christ. Offering a unique blend of personal storytelling, fresh and compelling writing, biblical exegesis, and practical application, this book invites readers to participate in disability justice and create a more inclusive community in church and parachurch spaces. Engaging content such as reflection questions and top-ten lists are included.Table of ContentsContentsA Note on LanguagePreface1. Disability CurativesTop Ten Recommended Remedies2. Disability DiscriminationTop Ten "At Leasts" 3. Disability DoubtersTop Ten Disability Denials4. Disability JusticeTop Ten Reasons I'm Disabled5. Disability BlessingsTop Ten "I Know How You Feels" 6. Disability MosquitosTop Ten Mosquito Swatters7. Disability LessonsTop Ten Disability Icebreakers8. Disabled FoundationsTop Ten Disability Accolades9. Disabled GodTop Ten Disability Theologies10. Disabled ChurchTop Ten Disability DreamsBenecription for Nondisabled PeopleBenecription for Disabled PeopleFurther Reading

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Book SynopsisModeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures.Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge.Traditional somatics teach us how to fine-tune our introspective senses and to open up the world of our own bodies, while eco soma methods extend that attention toward the creative possibilities of the reach between self, others, and the land. Eco Soma proposes an art/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously, a method that allows for a wider opening toward ethical cohabitation with human and more-than-human others.Trade Review "Petra Kuppers breathes us through connections between embodiment and the earth, weaving queer studies and disability studies into self-guided explorations. Her imagistic text evokes dancing—the pull of gravity and the shifting perspectives of bodies in flow. She moves, she writes, we respond to her autobiographical narratives of environmental spaces and social places."—Anita Gonzalez, Georgetown University (cofounder of Georgetown University’s Racial Justice Institute) "There is absolutely nothing like Eco Soma in any field. Petra Kuppers provides a much-needed model for what interdisciplinary arts-based research can be, and her work is always put into the context of the lived reality of minoritized communities. She shows us how to write about bodies as she does—unflinchingly, while maintaining respect and dignity."—Carrie Sandahl, director, Program on Disability Art, Culture, and Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago "Petra Kuppers’s grounded and reflective investigation encourages generative dialogue within and beyond disability performance studies. Sharing many vivid examples drawn from diverse community scales and sites, her eco soma method both illuminates and prompts creative reimaginings of relations between self, land, other humans, and more-than-humans. Answering the urgent call for multidisciplinary work to address climate catastrophe, she reveals the profound power of art-based methods to engage the body, forge connection, and enact change."—Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia (located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) people) "Kuppers's spectral disability approach makes this book an ideal companion for revising older canons and theories, through embodied encounters with activist community performance... The labour of reading this layered and performative text generates new research trajectories through realms of sense, affect, and relation."—Research in Drama Education "Kuppers animates the concepts of disability culture with unexplored ways of witnessing performances through uncertain being and identifying. The fundamental questions Kuppers gently invites the readers to explore about their own encounters and identifications with the human, nonhuman and fantastic worlds are especially important for a world grappling with the continued realities of a global pandemic, of reassessing one’s place and purpose, privileges and uncertainties."—Synapsis "Engaging with the intersection of the self and the environment in the wide array of well-chosen performances it analyses, Petra Kuppers’s Eco Soma substantially invites a rethinking of material enmeshments embodied in the self that is marked by various agencies—be they geographical, historical, or cultural."—Ecocene "Relevant and grounding."—Wordgathering "The text models a form of inquiry, inviting the reader to take a journey through the author’s collection of embodied performance witnessing and become aware of how one encounters the world through the discovery of involved witnessing."—Synapsis Journal "Eco Soma reads like a historical recipe for imagined futures, one that invites you to add a pinch of your favorite spice to make it smell of home and taste like possibility."—Research in Arts and Education "Kuppers’s book puts forward appropriate ways for diverse bodyminds to access the spaciousness as well as the peacefulness of being with nature, subsequently offering revolutionary ways of thinking about complex embodiment and issues of belonging and accessibility in cultural work."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies "Petra Kuppers moves in a refreshing worldscape of academic writing. In the introduction to Eco Soma, I am invited into her private space, her own study, her nest on the ground. From here, she takes me by the hand and guides me through stories and reflections from her personal and artistic life and practice as an academic, mover, facilitator and performance witness."—Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices Table of ContentsContentsPreface: From Ecosomatics to Eco Soma1. Social Somatics: Tentacular Methods on the Horizon2. Edges of Water and Land: Indigenous/Settler Eco Soma Collaborations3. Un/Bounding: Writing Water Worlds4. Crip Time, Rhythms, and Slow Rays: Speculative EmbodimentCoda: OraclesAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDoes the Internet fundamentally change the flow of politically relevant information, even in authoritarian regimes? If so, does it alter the attitudes and behavior of citizens? While there is a fair amount of research exploring how social media has empowered social actors to challenge authoritarian regimes, there is much less addressing whether and how the state can actively shape the flow of information to its advantage. In China, for instance, citizens often resort to rightful resistance to lodge complaints and defend rights. By using the rhetoric of the central government, powerless citizens may exploit the slim political opportunity structure and negotiate with the state for better governance. But this tactic also reinforces the legitimacy of authoritarian states; citizens engage rightful resistance precisely because they trust the state, at least the central government, to some degree. Drawing on original survey data and rich qualitative sources, Directed Digital Dissidence in AutTable of ContentsChapter 1 - The China Case: Strong State, Popular Contention, and the Internet Chapter 2 -The Chinese Internet: Citizen Awareness of Government Control Chapter 3 - What Does Directed Digital Dissidence Look Like? Critical Information Flows, Trust, and Support for Protest Chapter 4 - Social Media: The Battleground of the Information War Chapter 5 - Jumping Over the Great Firewall: A Threat to the Chinese Strategy Chapter 6 - The Digital Dissident Citizen: Who are the Wall Jumpers? Chapter 7 - Managing the Information War: Voices Heard from Beyond the Wall are Lost Chapter 8 - Digital Directed Dissidence in Action: Applications and its Limits Chapter 9 - Will Digital Directed Dissidence Keep Working? Appendices Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA much-needed guide to dating--from apps to hooking up, sex, long-term relationships and more--from disabled essayist and author Jessica Slice and bioethicist Caroline Cupp.Disabled people date, have casual sex, marry, and parent. Yet our romantic lives are conspicuously absent from the media and cultural conversation. Sexual education does not typically address the specific information needed by disabled students. Mainstream dating apps fail to include disability as an aspect of one''s identity alongside race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation. The few underutilized disability-focused apps are paternalistic and unappealing. Bestselling dating books do not address disability, and the few relationship books marketed to disabled people focus on the mechanics of sex rather than the complex interactions that create the conditions for it.In Dateable, disabled authors Jessica Slice Caroline Cupp team up to address the serious gap in the datin

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Book Synopsis''GORGEOUS, VIVIDLY ALIVE'' NEW YORK TIMES''BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN'' ANDRÉ ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME''GRACEFUL AND SOUL-BARING'' MELANIE REID, THE TIMES''WHAT A GIFT . . . HAS THE RIGOR AND PRECISION OF JOAN DIDION AND MAGGIE NELSON AND A FORTHRIGHT HUMOR AND NAKED TRUTH ALL OF ITS OWN.'' SARAH RUHL, AUTHOR OF SMILEI am in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life was worth living.So begins Chloé Cooper Jones''s bold account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, she must contend not only with her own physical pain, but the emotional discomfort of others.It is only when she unexpectedly becomes a mother that she confronts the demand to live life fully, propelling her on a journey acrossTrade ReviewEasy Beauty is bold, honest, and superbly well-written. Chloé Cooper Jones is ruthless in probing our weakest and darkest areas, and does so with grace, humor, and ultimately, with something one seldom finds: kindness and humanity. * André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name *Graceful, soul-baring * Melanie Reid, The Times *Gorgeous, vividly alive... In rejecting the dismissive gaze of others, Jones stands in the light of her own extremely able self -- Books of the Year * New York Times *What a gift of a book ... Easy Beauty has the rigor and precision of Joan Didion and Maggie Nelson and a forthright humor and naked truth all its own. * Sarah Ruhl, author of Smile *Perceptive, stylish, and darkly funny, Easy Beauty is an act of grace, and a reckoning. Chloé Cooper Jones is a remarkable writer - I would follow her mind anywhere. * Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley *Chloé Cooper Jones is a writer whose work I don't read, but enter: she weaves her brainy, crackling interior into the sinews of a reality that is forever reminding its participants of the difficulty of living inside a body. Easy Beauty is the most humane book I have read in a long time: in her insistence that we bear witness to each other, Jones calls forth a better, and indeed more beautiful world. I loved this book. * Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness *I recommend Easy Beauty to anyone who has wanted beauty badly, even without knowing quite what it is, but who could never seem to access it. At least, I'm that sort of anyone, and I could feel and recognize parts of myself in every moment of this book. Chloé Cooper Jones' writing pierces right through and lets a light in. * Mitski, singer-songwriter *In this ambitious and elegant book about seeing and being seen, Chloé Cooper Jones invokes thorny, theoretical material about identity, the social order, and how we measure human value, but her clarity and compassion invite all readers in. She has created a forceful and fresh point of view from which to anatomize power, access, and perception in her precise, unsparing prose. A necessary, relentlessly honest book that feels both of the moment and timeless. * Whiting Foundation Judges citation *Jones is a magnificent guide, fiercely sharp and fiercely human. 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 *This book is utterly remarkable. I was spellbound by the style, the ideas, the vulnerability, the talent. * Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State *Dazzling . . . 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 *Exquisite. 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 *Jones 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 a book that everyone will be talking about. * Lit Hub *A 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 *A soul-stretching, breathtaking existential memoir chronicles her reclaiming of body, mind, and self . . . Superlative writing, rendering complex emotion and unparalleled insight in skilfully precise language. Her debut is a game-changing gift to readers. * Booklist, starred review *Despite doctors' dire predictions that she wouldn't live, walk or have children, she has done these things and more. Here, she probes the ways a culture determines a person's value and embarks on a journey to understand the myth of beauty and her own unintentional complicity in it. * Washington Post *The multiple depths that Jones plumbs in Easy Beauty results in a memoir that can't easily be classified. The same can be said for the book's author. Jones is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a philosophy professor and a writer, who delves into her journey as a daughter, mother, wife and her search for a new way of seeing the world. In other words, her story is about the complexity of the human experience and the questions of identity and belonging that plague us all. * People Magazine *Inspired in part by the shift Jones saw in others' perceptions of her during her pregnancy, Easy Beauty challenges deep-seated assumptions about who gets to be capable, trustworthy, and desirable. * Bustle Magazine *Candid and truth-seeking, this memoir charts the act of refocusing and realigning the ways we view and interpret ourselves * NB Magazine *Achingly felt, Jones's writing is a revelation * Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2022 *Easy Beauty is an exquisite exploration of disability, identity, and the human capacity to do (and be) more than we've ever dreamed * Time *Touching and often humorous... explores life from the perspective of those who don't conform to conventional beauty standards -- Charlotte Heathcote * Daily Record *Genius... Shifted my understanding of a world I've only experienced while able-bodied -- Best Memoirs of 2022 * Vulture *Moving, incisive... Jones resists sentimentality and is as unsparing of herself as she is of other people, and yet she writes with such graciousness. A wonderful debut -- Tomi Obaro * Buzzfeed News *Gorgeous, concise and often very funny... a gripping memoir about parenting, disabilities and figuring out what to do next... a philosophical masterpiece, written in the tradition of those who see philosophy not as a dry academic subject but as a way of life * Coachella Review *A masterpiece ... Cooper Jones uses the particulars of her own experience to formulate ideas that are at once universally applicable and genuinely profound * Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisThis handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline. Critical Autism Studies is a developing area occupying an exciting space of development within learning and teaching in higher education. It has a strong trajectory within the autistic academic and advocate community in resistance and response to the persistence of autism retaining an identity as a genetic disorder of the brain. Divided into four parts Conceptualising autism Autistic identity Community and culture Practice and comprising 24 newly commissioned chapters written by academics and activists, it explores areas of education, Critical Race Theory, domestic violence and abuse, sexuality, biopolitics, health, and social care practices. It will be of interest to all scholars and stude

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Book SynopsisBrings together scholars, musicians, and family members of people with disabilities to collectively recount years of personal experiences, research, and perspectives on the societal and community impact of inclusive musical improvisation.Trade ReviewImprovising Across Abilities is perhaps the only manuscript of its kind: one that explores the applications of one adaptive music technology, AUMI, in extraordinary depth through multivalent perspectives and scenarios via the words and metaphors of an extraordinarily varied collective of writers, students, teachers, social justice workers, technologists, community activists, group home directors, and creatives. While most scholarly essay collections feature chapters by academics from a narrow range of fields (if not a single one), this volume’s editorial team has consciously drawn writing from members of the public community who might not ordinarily contribute to such a collection, as well as from artists, scientists, and professors who write as part of their profession. The variation in writers and voices not only adds to the value of the book, but reinforces its argument that everyone, no matter what shape, size, or ability, should have a voice." - Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Brooklyn College"The awe-inspiring creator and thinker Pauline Oliveros is recognized for her pioneering electronic compositions, the astonishing diversity of her musical creations, her multifaceted poetic and expository writing, and her dedicated teaching of Deep Listening over many years. Some of her best-known work, the Sonic Meditations and Deep Listening Pieces, offers brief verbal instructions to allow groups to create musical experiences together, regardless of the musical training or experience of the people involved. An extension of this inclusiveness came in her later years with the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), now a freely downloadable app that allows users, including people with limited physical mobility, to participate in music making in new and provocative ways. This well-conceived book makes available a stunning wealth of information about AUMI by writers from many different backgrounds." - Fred Maus, University of VirginiaTable of Contents Introduction Section I: Dreaming of AUMI Chapter 1 Going Deep: AUMI Since Before the Beginning Leaf Miller Illustrations by Ty Dykema Chapter 2 From Punk Philosophy to Musical Accessibility Zane Van Dusen Chapter 3 My Transformation into a Masterpiece Musical Instrument and Musician Clara Tomaz Chapter 4 The Gift of Expression: Playing AUMI with My Son Julie Brocklehurst Chapter 5 AUMI as a Model for Social Justice George Lipsitz Chapter 6 The Dream of AUMI IONE Section II: Software for All People: Improvising AUMI’s Development Chapter 7 AUMI in the Context of Adaptive Music Alex Lubet Chapter 8 AUMI Among the ADMIs: The Adaptive Digital Context Grace Shih-en Leu Chapter 9 AUMI Development and Developers: The DLI Years (2007-2012) Sherrie Tucker Chapter 10 AUMI Technology Development at McGill (2012-2019) John Sullivan, Ivan Franco, Ian Hattwick, Thomas Ciufo, Eric Lewis Chapter 11 How Adaptive, How Useful? Technological Design Solutions in AUMI for iOS Henry Lowengard Chapter 12 Pauline’s World of Virtuosos: Expanded Instruments, Deep Listening, and Stretched Boundaries Jonas Braasch Section III, Part 1:AUMI Communities Chapter 13 Exploring AUMI’s Potential in the Thunder Bay Community An Interview between Nicola Oddy and Lise Vaugeois Chapter 14 Building and Sustaining Ethical Communities Together An Interview with Rebecca Caines by Ellen Waterman Chapter 15 There’s No Place Like AUMI: Building a Community Partnership in Lawrence, Kansas Jim Barnes, Kip Haaheim, Ray Mizumura-Pence, Sherrie Tucker, and Ranita Wilks Chapter 16 Love, Actually: Using AUMI to Transgress Ableist Directing Habits Nicole Hodges Persley Chapter 17 Wooden Snapdragon Julie Unruh Chapter 18 Improvising Inclusive Communities: Shared Reflections on the Jesse Stewart Residency in Lawrence, Kansas Abbey Dvorak, Kip Haaheim, Ray Mizumura-Pence, and Sherrie Tucker Chapter 19 Sending and Receiving: AUMI Bodies and Dance Improvisation Michelle Heffner Hayes and Sherrie Tucker Chapter 20 Communities of Generosity and Gratitude: AUMI-KU InterArts’ First Decade Ray Mizumura-Pence Section III, Part 2:AUMI Performance Chapter 21 WAAM + AUMI: The We Are All Musicians Project and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument Jesse Stewart Chapter 22 “To Me, Dance is a Home”: An Interview with Jessie Huggett Jessie Huggett Interviewed by Jack Hui Litster Chapter 23 “I Am Here”: AUMI Sings and Choral Participation Ellen Waterman, Laurel Forshaw, Gillian Siddall, Henry Lowengard, Gale Franklin, Teresa Connors, and Karen Berglander Chapter 24 AUMI, Theremin, and Sonic Witnessing Li Harris Chapter 25 AUMI in Practice: The Mills AIE Matt Robidoux Chapter 26 Knowing as Feeling: Five Meditations on the Planets Kip Haaheim Section IV, Part 1: AUMI Classrooms Jennifer Hurst and Grace Shih-en Leu Chapter 27 Working with AUMI in Classroom Settings in a Center School for Students with Severe Cognitive and Physical Challenges Deborah A. Nelson and Nancy Patterson Chapter 28 AUMI and ‘Improvise Approach’ Backing Tracks Carrie Lennard Chapter 29 AUMI and the Ethics of Technology: A Personal Encounter Eric Lewis Section IV, Part 2: AUMI and Music Therapy: Supporting Independent Musicking Abbey Dvorak and Nicola Oddy Chapter 30 Clinical Applications Using AUMI in Music Therapy Practice Abbey L. Dvorak, James Maxson, and David Knott Chapter 31 Use of AUMI in Clinical Music Therapy for Hospitalized Patients with Complex Neurological Disabilities Sergio Hazard Chapter 32 AUMI and Musical Empowerment in a Pediatric Environment John Mulcahy Section V: Dreaming AUMI Futures Chapter 33 Dream Music Julie Unruh Chapter 34 Dreaming AUMI’S Future IONE References Editorial Team and Chapter Contributors

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Book SynopsisExamines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions.Trade ReviewRefutes the simplistic division of sight and blindness as separate worlds of meanings … the firsthand narratives of blind women provide a mirror where sighted assumptions are revealed and made clear. The book offers alternative conceptualizations of gender, visual culture, the gaze, and the sensorium, as well as new perspectives on central concepts within qualitative research, such as the researcher's gaze and research observation." - Elaine Gerber, Montclair State University"I like this book, which investigates sight as well as blindness … a significant contribution to anthropology, disability studies, and women and gender studies, and likely to be required reading in courses in those fields. It is also just a great book to read—by anyone." - Rod Michalko, University of Toronto

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Book Synopsis A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn''t built for all of us and of one woman''s activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann''s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a fire hazard to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher''s license, to leading the section 504 sit-in that led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judy''s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people around the globe.Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Judy Heumann''s memoir about resistance to exclusion invites readers to imagine and make real a world in which we all belong.Trade ReviewJudy's advocacy for disability rights began as a fight for her own future and then, as a leader of the movement, spanned the nation and the globe. * Hillary Clinton *Judy's story has shaken me to the core. For the first time, I see myself in someone else. Her fierce advocacy and work changing the laws around disability rights have undeniably paved the way for me to achieve what I have today. . . . A must-read. * Ali Stroker, Tony Award–winning actress *A marvelous memoir by a disability hero who has paved the way for many of us. Full of fascinating stories from the disability rights movement, this book will guide future leaders as we work toward a barrier-free world. * Haben Girma, author of the bestseller Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law *

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Book SynopsisA dazzling performance (think Forrest Gump, think Curious Incident, think Anne Donovan''s Buddha Da) from one of Scotland''s brightest new talents.Adam Spark. Eighteen going on eight-and-a-half. Fast-food worker. Queen fan. Last in the queue for luck. On waking from an accident in which he saves a child, he has the distinct impression that all is far from right. What are these curious lights that seem to surround people? Why are animals and machines trying to speak to him? And can he really control time? Is it just his imagination, or has Adam Spark been chosen to become Scotland''s first, and only, superhero? This, however, is the least of his problems. The local gang is luring him into deeper and darker peril. His sister and lone carer, Jude, is giving all her love to another woman. And if Jude abandons Adam - or Adam drives her away - all the superpowers in the world won''t be able to save him.Trade Review'Bizarre, hilarious, moving' Big Issue in Scotland; 'Sparky is a terrific character' Sunday Herald; 'Sparky is a virtuoso literary creation... This is a fresh and exciting read' Scotland on Sunday * . *

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Book SynopsisNavigating the joys, stigma, and discrimination of disabled parenting—and how the solutions offered by disability culture can transform the way we all raise our kidsJessica Slice’s disability is exactly what her child needed as a newborn. After becoming disabled a handful of years prior from a shift in her autonomic nervous system, Jessica had done the hard work of disentangling her worth from productivity and learning how to prepare for an unpredictable and fragile world. Despite evidence to the contrary, nondisabled people and systems often worry that disabled people cannot keep kids safe and cared for, labeling disabled parents “unfit,” but disabled parents and culture provide valuable lessons for rejecting societal rules that encourage perfectionism and lead to isolation.Blending her experience of becoming disabled in adulthood and later becoming a parent with interviews, social research, and disability studies, Slice describes what th

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Book SynopsisSince his conversion from Judaism, Charles Rich has sought to lead a contemplative life while still in world. He has shared the results of his meditations with a few intimate friends. It is these that make up this book-short, pithy reflections on a unique spiritual life.Trade ReviewA brief but fascinating glimpse into the role of women, religion, disability and notions of the self in early 19th-century France. * Publishers Weekly *Both Husson's autobiographical writing and Kudlick's and Weygand's short social history of the blight of the blind in nineteenth-century France will interest anyone whose work or intellectual interests lie in the field of modern disability studies. * H-Net Reviews *Offering insight into the compelling history of people with disabilities, this is one of the earliest accounts written by someone with an actual disability rather than by an observer or educator. * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisChallenging the academic and cultural stereotypes that do not acknowledge the rhetorical capabilities of autistic people, M. Remi Yergeau shows how autistics both embrace and reject the rhetorical, thereby queering the lines of rhetoric, humanity, agency, and the very essence of rhetoric itself.Trade Review"Authoring Autism provides many thought-provoking insights for disability scholars. . . . Melanie Yergeau’s double perspective as a rhetorician and autistic activist that makes Authoring Autism valuable to a larger audience." -- Marion Schmidt * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *"A new exploration—a work that defines, defies, and defiles the boundaries of rhetorical regimes of neurological oppression. . . . An intervention, a disruption, an eruption." -- Anna Williams * Disability & Society *"Deftly integrates rich theoretical analysis with moments of humor, irony, autoethnography (autie-ethnography), and poetic insight. Authoring Autism will be appropriate for graduate courses in rhetorical theory, whether feminist, queer, disability, posthuman, material, or embodied. It is essential reading for anyone who does rhetorical theory, and it will transform not only how we think about who a rhetor can be, but also what rhetoric should be." -- Jordynn Jack * Rhetoric Review *"A closely argued, elegantly performed, and even joyfully humorous work of critical emancipatory scholarship. Yergeau carefully intertwines lived experience, autistic memoir, clinical discourse, and humanities theory (particularly rhetorical studies, narrative theory, disability studies, and queer theory) to achieve a highly insightful hybrid discourse. In the process, she breaks down binaries and opens new possibilities of form for scholarly invention and cultural creation. . . . An excellent book and a major contribution." -- Bradley Lewis * Journal of Medical Humanities *"To oppose a medicalized flattening of autism to a passive embodiment of seemingly autonomic dysfunction, Yergeau makes a powerful case for 'autism’s rhetorical potentials' grounded in the resilient ways that autistic people self-consciously 'story' their desires for better, more inclusive futures. . . . Autistic people, Yergeau reminds us, have always been rhetorical beings. Only by redefining the very definitions and conventions of rhetoric can we begin to attend to these autistic narratives on their own terms." -- Travis Chi Wing Lau * Los Angeles Review of Books *"I need to (want to) read it several times in order to process the many profound, challenging, and delightful layers of [Yergeau's] rhetoric on rich display. . . . Authoring Autism is a masterclass in simultaneously claiming and dismantling rhetoric." -- Tara Wood * College Composition and Communication *"Authoring Autism doesn’t just show us what the neuroqueer can offer rhetoric, what the embodied experience of autistic people have to teach us of rhetoric, it resists these clinical gazes for us to study and instead urges readers to consider their own rhetoricity. How it might be neuroqueered—expanded, warped, and blown up. Yergeau wishes for us to embrace a future rhetoric full of tics and stims, and if this book is a glimpse of that future, it’s one every rhetorician should be advocating for." -- Jay McClintick * Enculturation *"Authoring Autism is a revolutionary book, a neuroqueer revelation." -- Michael Bérubé * Public Books *"Yergeau’s book is a welcome history of autism and critique of contemporary perceptions and 'treatments' of it. It is an insightful, often refreshingly irreverent argument that should be read by professors, administrators, and students." -- Patricia A. Dunn * College English *"Yergeau stocks wicked humor, manifesto-like passion, historical knowledge, a hard-hitting combination of rhetorical tightness and raw honesty, and an important bread crumb trail of autobiography in her authorial quiver." -- Deborah Jenson * American Literature *“Yergeau’s much-needed scholarship and activism crack open academic space to make room for those of us who do not fit the academy’s mandates for logic and legibility. Sketching new terrains of thought, Authoring Autism gestures toward vibrant words, images, and textures that sit with us, and we feel their weight.” -- Clare Mullaney * GLQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Involution 1 1. Intention 35 2. Intervention 89 3. Invitation 135 4. Invention 175 Epilogue. Indexicality 207 Notes 215 Bibliography 261 Index 289

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Book SynopsisThis book presents and examines the challenges and compromises required to deliver inclusivity in the existing commercial-built environment and the socio-economic benefits that could result from successfully delivering it.To illuminate the advantages of an inclusive environment to property owners, investors and service providers, the book covers the history of disability and evolution of the legislation and examines the demographics and types of disability to question the one size' blanket' approach that currently exists to providing access. Delving further into the characteristics of the commercial property sectors and individual disability-specific requirements, experienced commercial building surveyor, Adrian Tagg, analyses the contradictions in the existing legislation to establish examples of design compromise or reasonable adjustments. He seeks to contextualise public and commercial attitudes to disability and go further to demystify the term reasonable adjustment', whi

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting-edge areas as well as core areas of contention.Divided in five parts, this comprehensive handbook covers: Different models and approaches to disability How key impairment groups have engaged with disability studies and the writings within the discipline Policy and legislation responses to disability studies and to disability activism Disability studies and its interaction with other disciplines, such as history, philosophy, sport, and science and technology studies Disability studies and different life experiences, examining how disability and Table of ContentsList of figures List of tables List of contributors; Part I: Theorising Disability; 1. Disability studies: Into the multidisciplinary future Simo Vehmas and Nick Watson; 2. Understanding the Social Model of Disability: past, present and future Colin Barnes; 3. Critical Disability Studies: rethinking the conventions for the age of postmodernity Margrit Shildrick; 4. "Minority Model: From Liberal to Neo-Liberal Futures of Disability" David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder; 5. The ICF and Its Relationship to Disability Studies Jerome E. Bickenbach; 6. Disability and Human Rights Lucy Series New Addition; 7. Fear, pity and disgust: Emotions and the non-disabled imaginary Bill Hughes; 8. Psycho-emotional disablism: The missing link? Donna Reeve; 9. The Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson Jan Grue and Michael Lundblad; 10. Some problems with disability research Nick Watson; Part II: Theorising impairment and impairment effects; 11. Deaf identities in disability studies: with us or without us? Jackie Leach Scully; 12. Theorising the Position of People with Learning Difficulties within Disability Studies: Progress and pitfalls Kirsten Stalker; 13. Long term disabling Conditions and Disability Theory Sasha Scambler; 14. Critical realism and the ‘fourth wave’: Deepening and broadening social perspective on mental distress Richard Brunner; 15. It’s about time! Understanding the Experience of Speech Impairment Kevin Paterson; 16. Blindness. Sightedness: Disability studies and the defiance of di-vision Ben Whitburn and Rod Michalko; Part III: Social Policy and Disability: Health, Personal Assistance, Employment and Education; 17. Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: Surplusisty and the partially Disabled Subject Karen Soldatic; 18. Disabled People and Employment: A UK Perspective Rosa Morris; 19. Disability Studies, Inclusive Education & Exclusion. Michele Moore, Roger Slee; 20. Independent living and the failure of governments Charlotte Pearson; 21. Diagnosis as Social Practice and the Possibility of Interruption Scott Danforth; 22. Boundary maintenance: Exploring the intersections of disability and migration Nicola Burns; 23. Disability in developing countries Tom Shakespeare; Part IV: Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity; 24. The Metanarrative of Disability: Social encounters, cultural representation and critical avoidance David Bolt; 25. What can philosophy tell us about disability? Simo Vehmas and Christopher A. Riddle; 26. The Psychology of Disability Dan Goodley; 27. Challenging the Impairment/Disability Divide: Disability History and the Social Model of Disability Michael Rembis; 28. Disability, sport and physical activity Brett Smith and Andrew C. Sparkes; 29. We have never been able-bodied: thoughts on dis/ability and subjectivity from Science and Technology Studies Vasilis Galis; Section V: Contextualising the Disability experience; 30. Feminism and Disability: A Cartography of Multiplicity Ana Bê; 31. Disability and sexuality Xanthe Hunt; 32. Race/ethnicity and disability studies: towards an explicitly intersectional approach Deborah Stienstra; 33. Mothering and Disability: from eugenics to newgenics Claudia Malacrida; 34. Understanding disabled families: Replacing tales of burden with ties of interdependency Janice McLaughlin; 35. ‘I Hope He Dies Before Me’ – Unraveling the Debates About Aging and People with Intellectual Disability Christine Bigby; Index

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Book SynopsisPolice Custody in Ireland brings together experts from policing studies, law, criminology, and psychology, to critically examine contemporary police custody in Ireland, what we know about it, how it operates, how it is experienced, and how it might be improved.This first-of-its-kind collection focuses exclusively on detention in Garda Síochána stations, critically examining it from human rights and best practice perspectives. It examines the physical environment of custody, police interview techniques, existing protections, rights, and entitlements, and experiences of specific communities in custody, such as children, ethnic minorities, non-English speakers, the Mincéir/Traveller community, and those with intellectual disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder. Police Custody in Ireland gives a snapshot of garda custody as it is now and makes important recommendations for necessary future improvements.An accessible and compelling read, this book will be of

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Book SynopsisIntellectual and Developmental Disabilities provides a unique contribution not currently available in the professional literature by addressing the experiences and perspectives of families living with or raising a child with a disability. Designed for family therapists, social workers, and other helping professionals, it provides empirically-based, practical information for working with families experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities of a loved one. This book also provides important information for navigating the various professional systems of care with which these families interface: health care providers, early childhood intervention teams, educational systems, the legal system, and financial planners.Trade Review"Goff and Springer have provided a book that combines professional expertise with practical strategies for daily living. The authors have a rare combination of skills! Families of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and professionals working with them will find the book to be a valuable resource."Libby Kumin, professor, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Loyola University MarylandTable of ContentsPart I: Foundations for Understanding Developmental, Intellectual, and Other Disabilities 1. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: An Introduction and Overview Brie Turns, MS, PhD, Briana S. Nelson Goff, PhD, Marilyn Masterson, PhD, RN, Jessica D. Cless, MS, and Adam W. Cless, MS 2. A Systemic and Contextual Lens of Disability: Family Stress, Ambiguous Loss, and Meaning Making Nicole Piland Springer, PhD, Brie Turns, MS, PhD, and Marilyn Masterson, PhD, RN 3. Discovering Resilience: Moving Forward on the Journey Thomas Knestrict, EdD 4. Advice to New Parents From Parents: Reflecting on the Journey Jessica D. Cless, MS, Ellen Bodine, BS, Ashley Edelman, BS, Laura Farkas, BS, Adam W. Cless, MS, Briana S. Nelson Goff, PhD, and Nicole Piland Springer, PhD Part II: Perspectives, Contributions, and Lived Experiences of Individuals with IDD and Their Families on the Journey 5. Understanding and Supporting Identity Formation and Meaning Making Kami L. Gallus, PhD and Jennifer L. Jones, PhD 6. Perspectives From Mothers: Recognizing Their Strengths and Contributions Beyond Caregiving Jessica D. Cless, MS and Christyne Stephenson, MS 7. Perspectives From Fathers: Recognizing Their Strengths and Contributions Beyond Breadwinning Gail E. Bentley, PhD, Matthew D. Brown, PhD, and Jason B. Whiting, PhD 8. The Sibling Experience: More Than My Brother’s Keeper Carolyn Shivers, PhD 9. Grandparents: Meaningful Contributors to a Changing Family Landscape Sandra Woodbridge, PhD and Laurie Buys, PhD Part III: Navigating Professional Systems of Care: From Birth to Adolescence 10. The Medical Perspective: Developing Health Literacy in Families Karen Summar, MD, MS 11. Allied Health Professionals: Enhancing Potential Through Early Childhood Intervention and Therapies Jennifer J. Bekins, MS 12. The Education System: Building Partnerships and Inclusive Communities Grace Francis, PhD and Sarah Nagro, EdD Part IV: Preparing for the Future: The Transition to Adulthood and Beyond 13. Special Needs Financial Planning: Optimizing Resources for the Future Mitzi K. Lauderdale, JD, CFP®, Michael C. Walther II, CPA/PFS, CFP®, CFA®, and Nicole Piland Springer, PhD 14. Meaningful Employment: Fostering Opportunities for Adults with IDD to Thrive Jennifer L. Jones, PhD and Kami L. Gallus, PhD 15. Special Needs Legal Concerns: Guidelines for Families and Guardians Michele K. Goldberg, JD 16. When the Journey Ends: Parental Caregiving and Later Life Planning Elizabeth A. Perkins, PhD and Lieke van Heumen, PhD

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Book SynopsisHow might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them? Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing products that fix disabilities? How can we grow our capabilities to make designs more bespoke to each individual? After Universal Design brings together scholars, practitioners, and disabled users and makers to consider these questions and to argue for the necessity of a new user-centered design. As many YouTube videos demonstrate, disabled designers are not only fulfilling the grand promises of DIY design but are also questioning what constitutes meaningful design itself. By forcing a rethink of the top-down professionalized practice of Universal Design, which has dominated thinking and practice around design for disability for decades, this book models what inclusive design and social justice can look like as activism, academic research, and everyday life practices today. With chaptersTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Introduction: A Universal Conundrum, Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY, Purchase College, USA) Section One: Agency Section Introduction Key Points 1. Four Commitments of Crip Technoscience, Kelly Fritsch (Carleton University, Canada) and Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt University, USA) 2. Fixing Meets Expressing: Design by Designers with Disability Experience, Natalia Pérez Liebergesell, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, and Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, Belgium) 3. Case Study: Brett's Leather Case, Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware, USA) 4. Case Study: Zebreda Makes It Work! and the "Key" to Innovation, Elizabeth Guffey (SUNY, Purchase College, USA) 5. Case Study: Privileging Agency: A Conversation with Design and Disability Advocate Jessica Ryan-Ndegwa, Alison Kurdock Adams (SUNY, Purchase College, USA) 6. Case Study: Rehabilitation Technology at the Self-Help Shop Then and Now, Bess Williamson (SAIC, USA) 7. Case Study: Beyond the Bespoke: Agency and The Hands of X, Andrew Cook and Graham Pullin (University of Dundee, UK) 8. Case Study: Re-imagining Access and Its Pedagogies, Maggie Hendrie, Joshua Halstead, Robert Dirig, Elise Co, and Todd Masilko (ArtCenter College of Design, USA) Section Two: Equity Section Introduction Key Points 9. Equations for Reducing Disability Stigma through Design Equity, Josh Halstead (ArtCenter College of Design, USA) 10. Making Equity: How the Disability Community Met the Maker Movement, Émeline Brulé (University of Sussex, UK) 11. Case Study: Shaping Inclusive and Equitable Makerspaces, Katherine M. Steele (University of Washington, USA) 12. Case Study: A Study of Skilled Craftwork among Blind Fiber Artists, Maitraye Das and Katya Borgos-Rodriguez (Northwestern University, USA), and Anne Marie Piper (University of California, USA) 13. Case Study: Towards Sensory Equity: A More Inclusive Museum Space Designed from Disability Experience, Peter-Willem Vermeersch and Ann Heylighen (KU Leuven, Belgium) 14. Case Study: The Politics of Friction: Designing a Sex Toy for Every Body, David Serlin (UC San Diego, USA) 15. Case Study: The Face-Based Pain Scale: A Tool for Whom? Gabi Schaffzin (York University, Canada) 16. Case Study: Next Practice: Towards Equalities Design, Natasha Trotman (RCA, UK) Section Three: Speculation Section Introduction Key Points 17. Speculative Making, Sara Hendren (Olin College of Engineering, USA) 18. Speculating on Upstanding Norms, Ashley Shew (Virginia Tech, USA) 19. Case Study: M Eifler’s Prosthetic Memory as Speculative Archive, Lindsey D. Felt (Stanford University, USA) 20. Case Study: The Way Ahead, Caroline Cardus (Independent Artist, UK) 21. Case Study: Customizing Reading: Harvey Lauer’s “Reading Machine of the Future”, Mara Mills (New York University, USA) 22. Case Study: “Captioning on Captioning” with Shannon Finnegan, Louise Hickman (University of Cambridge, UK) 23. Case Study: A Squishy House, Emily Watlington (Art in America, USA) 24. Case Study: Black Disabled Joy as an Act of Resistance, Jen White-Johnson (Bowie State University, USA) List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability 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. The chapters underscore the eugenic impetus at the heart of bioethics; talk back to the whiteness of work on philosophy and dTrade ReviewA fascinating and wide-ranging collection of papers challenging all of us who do philosophy — in any of its subfields — to pay more sustained attention to the different disabled perspectives that may dislodge old habits of thought and invigorate new ones. * Miranda Fricker, Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University, USA *Fresh, deep, and exceptional in its intersectional engagement, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a field-defining contribution to philosophy. Shelley Tremain’s expansive collection of original work in philosophy of disability by philosophers of diverse backgrounds, approaches, and perspectives effectively demonstrates that philosophy of disability has come of age as a field worthy of recognition and respect. * Tracy Isaacs, Professor of Philosophy, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada *This trailblazing volume assembles cutting-edge work in philosophy of disability to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of this new movement in philosophy. The volume firmly establishes philosophy of disability as a way of practicing philosophy that is central to all areas of philosophical inquiry. * Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University, USA *This is a lively and wide-ranging collection of essays, offering an enlightening and poignant up-to-date snapshot of the philosophy of disability. The volume showcases a range of philosophical approaches and topics, examining disability and its relationship with philosophy from a variety of angles, which illuminate this new field. * Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK, and Author of Illness: the Cry of the Flesh *The range in this collection is impressive, from the kinds of disabilities covered, to the domains to which disability connects. From chronic fatigue, substance use, deafness, neurodiversity, speech pathologies, and more, to an exploration of the concept of "disability" in Africana philosophy, in music theory, assisted reproduction, and more, everyone should find something to learn from this volume. * Barry Lam, Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside, USA, and Founder and Producer of the award-winning Hi-Phi Nation podcast *This fantastic collection is both long overdue and yet ahead of its time. The essays not only press against the cherished norms of philosophy; they also refract similar dynamics and epistemic violences in other fields. The result is no less than a challenge to the ableist strictures of disciplinarity itself. * Jasbir K. Puar, Author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, USA *Table of ContentsForeword, Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA) Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: New Movement in Philosophy: Philosophy of Disability, Shelley Lynn Tremain (Coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Canada) Part I: Desegregating The Disciplines 1. Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics, Shelley Lynn Tremain (Coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Canada) 2. Would you Kill the Fat Man Hypothetical? Fat Stigma in Philosophy, Kristin Rodier (Athabasca University, Canada) and Samantha Brennan (University of Guelph, Canada) 3. Pruriently Feared: Theoretical Erasure of the Disabled Black Male, Tommy J. Curry (University of Edinburgh, UK) 4. Disability, Dissonance, and Resistance: A Musical Dialogue, Licia Carlson (Providence College, USA) 5. Neurodiversity, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Politics of Mental Health, Robert Chapman (Durham University, UK) 6. Disability and African Philosophy, Julie E. Maybee (Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Part II: Mechanisms of Oppression 7. The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration, Andrea J. Pitts (University of Buffalo, USA) 8. Disability, Ableism, Class, and Chronic Fatigue, Mich Ciurria (University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA) 9. Algorithms as Ableist Orientation Devices: The Technosocial Inheritance of Colonialism and Ableism, Johnathan Flowers (California State University, Northridge, USA) 10. The Art of Kinship: An Intersectional Reading of Assisted Reproductive Practices, Desiree Valentine (Marquette University, USA) 11. Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Authority on Autism, Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) Part III: Phenomenologies of Access and Exclusion 12. Disability, Access, and the Promise of Inclusion: Returning to Institutional Language through a Phenomenological Lens, Corinne Lajoie (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) 13. Stuttering and Ableism: A Study of Eventfulness, Joshua St. Pierre (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. Frantz Fanon and Disability: Frictions and Solidarities, Emily R. Douglas (Athabasca University, Canada) 15. Exemption, Self-exemption, and Compassionate Self-excuse, Sofia Jeppsson (Umeå Universitet, Sweden) 16. Pathologizing Disabled and Trans Identities: How Emotions Become Marginalized, Gen Eickers (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) Part IV: Disabling Normativities 17. A Crip Reading of Filipino Philosophy, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril (University of Edinburgh, UK) 18. Recognizing Human Flourishing in the Context of Disability, Jordan Joseph Wadden (The University of British Columbia, Canada) and Tim Stainton (The University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Neurodiversity and the Ethics of Access, August Gorman (Oakland University, USA) 20. The Ethics of Disability Passing and Uncovering in the Philosophy Classroom, Joseph A. Stramondo (San Diego State University, USA) 21. Inclusive Ethics: A Precautionary Principle, Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State University, USA) Part V: Resisting Epistemologies 22. Risking Ourselves, Together: The Politics and Persons of Risk, Melinda C. Hall (Stetson University, USA) 23. Disablement and Ageism, Christine Overall (Queen’s University, Canada) 24. Power-Knowledge and Epistemic Injustice in Employment for Disabled Adults, Josh Dohmen (Mississippi University for Women, USA) 25. “But you don’t look autistic”: Resisting Neurotypical Narratives, Nathan Moore (Canada) 26. Nocebos Talk Back: Marked Bodied Experience and the Dynamics of Health Inequality, Suze G. Berkhout (University of Toronto, Canada) and Ada S. Jaarsma (Mount Royal University, Canada) Index List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability 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. The chapters underscore the eugenic impetus at the heart of bioethics; talk back to the whiteness of work on philosophy and dTrade ReviewA fascinating and wide-ranging collection of papers challenging all of us who do philosophy — in any of its subfields — to pay more sustained attention to the different disabled perspectives that may dislodge old habits of thought and invigorate new ones. * Miranda Fricker, Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University, USA *Fresh, deep, and exceptional in its intersectional engagement, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a field-defining contribution to philosophy. Shelley Tremain’s expansive collection of original work in philosophy of disability by philosophers of diverse backgrounds, approaches, and perspectives effectively demonstrates that philosophy of disability has come of age as a field worthy of recognition and respect. * Tracy Isaacs, Professor of Philosophy, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada *This trailblazing volume assembles cutting-edge work in philosophy of disability to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of this new movement in philosophy. The volume firmly establishes philosophy of disability as a way of practicing philosophy that is central to all areas of philosophical inquiry. * Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University, USA *This is a lively and wide-ranging collection of essays, offering an enlightening and poignant up-to-date snapshot of the philosophy of disability. The volume showcases a range of philosophical approaches and topics, examining disability and its relationship with philosophy from a variety of angles, which illuminate this new field. * Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK, and Author of Illness: the Cry of the Flesh *The range in this collection is impressive, from the kinds of disabilities covered, to the domains to which disability connects. From chronic fatigue, substance use, deafness, neurodiversity, speech pathologies, and more, to an exploration of the concept of "disability" in Africana philosophy, in music theory, assisted reproduction, and more, everyone should find something to learn from this volume. * Barry Lam, Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside, USA, and Founder and Producer of the award-winning Hi-Phi Nation podcast *This fantastic collection is both long overdue and yet ahead of its time. The essays not only press against the cherished norms of philosophy; they also refract similar dynamics and epistemic violences in other fields. The result is no less than a challenge to the ableist strictures of disciplinarity itself. * Jasbir K. Puar, Author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, USA *Table of ContentsForeword, Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA) Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: New Movement in Philosophy: Philosophy of Disability, Shelley Lynn Tremain (Coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Canada) Part I: Desegregating The Disciplines 1. Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics, Shelley Lynn Tremain (Coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Canada) 2. Would you Kill the Fat Man Hypothetical? Fat Stigma in Philosophy, Kristin Rodier (Athabasca University, Canada) and Samantha Brennan (University of Guelph, Canada) 3. Pruriently Feared: Theoretical Erasure of the Disabled Black Male, Tommy J. Curry (University of Edinburgh, UK) 4. Disability, Dissonance, and Resistance: A Musical Dialogue, Licia Carlson (Providence College, USA) 5. Neurodiversity, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Politics of Mental Health, Robert Chapman (Durham University, UK) 6. Disability and African Philosophy, Julie E. Maybee (Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Part II: Mechanisms of Oppression 7. The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration, Andrea J. Pitts (University of Buffalo, USA) 8. Disability, Ableism, Class, and Chronic Fatigue, Mich Ciurria (University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA) 9. Algorithms as Ableist Orientation Devices: The Technosocial Inheritance of Colonialism and Ableism, Johnathan Flowers (California State University, Northridge, USA) 10. The Art of Kinship: An Intersectional Reading of Assisted Reproductive Practices, Desiree Valentine (Marquette University, USA) 11. Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Authority on Autism, Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) Part III: Phenomenologies of Access and Exclusion 12. Disability, Access, and the Promise of Inclusion: Returning to Institutional Language through a Phenomenological Lens, Corinne Lajoie (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) 13. Stuttering and Ableism: A Study of Eventfulness, Joshua St. Pierre (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. Frantz Fanon and Disability: Frictions and Solidarities, Emily R. Douglas (Athabasca University, Canada) 15. Exemption, Self-exemption, and Compassionate Self-excuse, Sofia Jeppsson (Umeå Universitet, Sweden) 16. Pathologizing Disabled and Trans Identities: How Emotions Become Marginalized, Gen Eickers (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) Part IV: Disabling Normativities 17. A Crip Reading of Filipino Philosophy, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril (University of Edinburgh, UK) 18. Recognizing Human Flourishing in the Context of Disability, Jordan Joseph Wadden (The University of British Columbia, Canada) and Tim Stainton (The University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Neurodiversity and the Ethics of Access, August Gorman (Oakland University, USA) 20. The Ethics of Disability Passing and Uncovering in the Philosophy Classroom, Joseph A. Stramondo (San Diego State University, USA) 21. Inclusive Ethics: A Precautionary Principle, Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State University, USA) Part V: Resisting Epistemologies 22. Risking Ourselves, Together: The Politics and Persons of Risk, Melinda C. Hall (Stetson University, USA) 23. Disablement and Ageism, Christine Overall (Queen’s University, Canada) 24. Power-Knowledge and Epistemic Injustice in Employment for Disabled Adults, Josh Dohmen (Mississippi University for Women, USA) 25. “But you don’t look autistic”: Resisting Neurotypical Narratives, Nathan Moore (Canada) 26. Nocebos Talk Back: Marked Bodied Experience and the Dynamics of Health Inequality, Suze G. Berkhout (University of Toronto, Canada) and Ada S. Jaarsma (Mount Royal University, Canada) Index List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisKate Nash OBE is a change leader with over 30 years' experience in working strategically to effect long term changes in relation to disabled people. She is the creator & CEO of PurpleSpace (www.purplespace.org). Established in 2015 it is the world's only professional development membership hub for disability employee resource groups.In 2017 she founded #PurpleLightUp, a global movement of disabled people, allies and champions who celebrate the economic contribution of disabled people to the global economy. This takes place on 3rd December each year as a mark of respect to the UN International Day of Disabled People. Prominent landmarks that have been illuminated include The Shard in London, Blackpool Tower, John F Kennedy Airport, Niagara Falls, Sydney Harbour Bridge and The Australian Parliament. She is based in London, UK.Trade Review"Positively Purple should be required reading for every FTSE 250 CEO. Business leaders need to understand and value 'human capital'. Kate Nash is an expert in helping us recognise the value of every human - including those with disabilities." * Ian Stuart, Chief Executive Officer, HSBC UK Bank plc *"Positively Purple is a tale about the talent and potential of people with disabilities. Any CEO wanting to test the robustness of their disability strategy should understand the politics of disability. Kate Nash's personal story told with brutal honesty, is a compelling read and full of practical lessons." * Duncan Tait, Chief Executive, Inchcape plc *"Global multinationals like GSK, increasingly choose to learn directly from their employees with disabilities. Building disability confidence from the inside out by investing in a disability employee resource group will make the journey so much easier. Kate's personal story shows us how to supercharge the disability inclusion revolution and create a better, more accessible, working world." * Andy Garrett, GSK Workplace Adjustments Service Programme Director, Global co-lead GSK Disability Confidence Network *"It's hard for me to talk about Kate and her work without sounding like I am always using hyperbole. I find Kate Nash's presence throughout Positively Purple inspiring. Her words embolden the reader to participate as proactive protagonists in the fight for equity. The path she outlines uses lessons from other equality and identity dimensions but adds a particular magic, unique to Kate herself. This book is essential reading for anyone who would call themselves an ally of equity at work. My team and I are all avid fans of Kate and grateful for all her lessons and practical actions." * John Amaechi OBE, APS *"Kate Nash has managed to do what no one before her has ever done. Positively Purple is the manuscript for living life and creating epic change for people with disabilities. Kate's special brand of combined grace and spicy wit helps us quite literally feel better for life. She has taught us how to feel good and change the world simultaneously as shown by empirical data. Prepare to have a hard time putting the book down." * Belinda May, Partner & Co-Chair, Dentons US LLP Disability/Accessibility ERG Affinity Group *"Positively Purple is an incredibly powerful and positive view into Kate's world and the invaluable work she continues to do to raise awareness of the challenges millions face daily. Kate Nash delves into the world of work, which for many is a minefield, and opens the door by providing tangible suggestions for people with disabilities and those who are looking to hire the best talent!" * Steve Ingham, Chief Executive, PageGroup *"An unrelentingly positive read! Brilliantly weaves her story with the must-read practical advice for employers. Show how employers can lead as allies to create a powerful movement for change, in delivering an inclusive workplace and society." * Mark Hodgkinson, Chief Executive, Scope *"There is nothing inevitable about progress - it takes relentless campaigning and great campaigners. Kate Nash is one of those people. Her insights into how to create a space without fear of getting it wrong and the importance of positive campaigning should be read by every social change campaigner." * Tiernan Brady, Global Director of Inclusion, Clifford Chance LLP *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Disability identity; Chapter - 02: Nature, nurture and a new reality; Chapter - 03: The soft bigotry of low expectation; Chapter - 04: Who do I want to be when I grow up?; Chapter - 05: Disability is a political experience; Chapter - 06: Build your network to get ahead; Chapter - 07: Lonely in a crowd; Chapter - 08: Eradicating shame; Chapter - 09: Ensuring an organization is better for having you there; Chapter - 10: Getting on at work, rather than simply getting in ; Chapter - 11: Starting a long-haul strategy to change the world; Chapter - 12: The third phase of change: when movements take off; Chapter - 13: Building disability confidence from the inside out; Chapter - 14: The futurists; Chapter - 15: Afterword; Chapter - 16: Notes

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