Convenient Discrimination - Crips, Queers, and Other Misfits

Combining media studies and archival research, this book critically examines historic and contemporary examples of media representations of queerness and disability - often intersecting - to establish and demonstrate a theory of "discriminatory convenience."
Although social oppression is typically framed in terms of prejudice, hate, and other forms of dislike, D. Travers Scott argues for another perspective - inconvenience - by drawing upon histories of industrialization, technology, and modernist ideals of efficiency. Scott analyzes and compares historical and contemporary discourses around health, media, technology, and social movements to present a combination of compelling case studies, bolstered by their autoethnographic accounts as a queer, formerly disabled activist-scholar.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

D. Travers Scott is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Emory & Henry University, USA.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: D Travers Scott, D Travers Scott
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 09.07.2026
• EAN: 9781666960198
• ISBN: 978-1-6669-6019-8
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 454 g
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sociology, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social discrimination & inequality, Communication Studies, Ethics and moral philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Communication Theory