Defining the Boundaries of Disability : Critical Perspectives (Paperback)

Introduction: What does it mean to claim “we are all disabled”? LICIA CARLSON AND MATTHEW C. MURRAY PART 1: Theoretical considerations 1. Power, disability, and the academic production of knowledge MATTHEW C. MURRAY 2. Depending on the undependable: Disability, fragility, and instability ADAM CURETON 3. The universal view of disability and its danger to the civil rights model DORON DORFMAN 4. On (not) deserving disadvantage: What kind of difference does “disability” make? LESLIE FRANCIS 5. Being and deafness: Examining ontology and ethics within the dialectic of hearing-loss and deaf-gain and deafness-and-disability MICHAEL E. SKYER PART 2: Spaces, representations, and lived boundaries 6. Poems JIM FERRIS 7. “We are all disabled”: Feathers, continuities, and a neglected musical argument? STEFAN SUNANDAN HONISCH 8. Robinson Crusoe and Peter the Wild Boy: What Daniel Defoe inadvertently tells us about disability D. CHRISTOPHER GABBARD 9. “We are all disabled”: The conundrum of problems and solutions MADELEINE DEWELLES 10. Borderlands and neurodiversity: Aren´t we all humans? SARA NEWMAN 11. We are all disabled, until we are not TERESA BLANKMEYER BURKE 12. Thoughts on precarity, disablement, and risk during COVID-19 SANDY SUFIAN AND LICIA CARLSON 13. Toward disability justice in a pandemic world MATTHEW C. MURRAY AND LICIA CARLSON