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Book SynopsisDisability and Dissensus is a comprehensive collection of essays that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of critical cultural disability studies. The volume offers a selection of texts by numerous specialists in different areas of the humanities, both well-established scholars and young academics, as well as practitioners and activists from the USA, the UK, Poland, Ireland, and Greece. Taking inspiration from Critical Disability Studies and Jacques Rancière’s philosophy, the book critically engages with the changing modes of disability representation in contemporary cultures. It sheds light both on inspirations and continuities as well as tensions and conflicts within contemporary disability studies, fostering new understandings of human diversity and contributing to a dissensual ferment of thought in the academia, arts, and activism. Contributors are: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Marek Mackiewicz-Ziccardi, Małgorzata Sugiera, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, Maria Tsakiri, Murray K. Simpson, James Casey, Agnieszka Izdebska, Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Dorota Krzemińska, Jolanta Rzeźnicka-Krupa, Wiktoria Siedlecka-Dorosz, Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, Christian O’Reilly, and Len Collin.
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Disability and Dissensus Katarzyna Ojrzyńska and Maciej Wieczorek Part 1 (Re)Defining Models of Disability and Normalcy: Theories and Contexts 1 Critical Disability Studies in the Humanities Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Katarzyna Ojrzyńska 2 Critical Disability Studies: Sketches from Poland and the UK Dan Goodley and Marek Mackiewicz-Ziccardi 3 Making Sense of Bodies: Models and Metaphors in Sciences and Arts Małgorzata Sugiera Part 2 Disability Film Festivals: The Politics of Representation and Participation 4 Disability Cinema: Charting Alternative Ethical Maps of Living on Film David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 5 Disability Film Festivals: The Spaces where Crip Killjoys Take Action Maria Tsakiri Part 3 Between the Real and the Reel 6 Disability, Gender, and Innocence: Russ Meyer’s Mudhoney and Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!and Problems of Signification in Cinema Murray K. Simpson 7 “Never the Twain Shall Meet”: Myth and Miracles in Jessica Hauser’s 2009 Film Lourdes James Casey Part 4 Bodies that Matter: Representing and Experiencing Non-Standard Physiques 8 A Dwarf – A Metaphor and a Body in Words and Images Agnieszka Izdebska 9 Disability and Its Doubles: The Conflicting Discourses of Disability in Susan Nussbaum’s No One as Nasty Edyta Lorek-Jezińska Part 5 Beyond Therapy 10 Between Therapy and Art: Borderline Space in Polish Theatre of People with Intellectual (Dis)Ability Dorota Krzemińska and Jolanta Rzeźnicka-Krupa 11 ‘…and we all’: The Phenomenon of Theatre 21 Wiktoria Siedlecka-Dorosz Part 6 From Life to Stage and Screen: Blue Teapot’s Sanctuary 12 Shooting Actors who have Intellectual Disabilities: A Reflexive Analysis on the Making of the Feature Film Sanctuary Len Collin 13 Christian O’Reilly Talks about His Writing on Disability for the Stage and for the Screen Christian O’Reilly Disability, Dis(sensual)Art, and the Politics of Participation Maciej Wieczorek and Katarzyna Ojrzyńska Index
