Biopolitics of Disability - Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment

Klappentext In the neoliberal era! when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture! selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon "ablenationalism” and asserts that "inclusion” becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to governing norms of productivity and independence. Zusammenfassung Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film! fiction! media! and art

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• Authors: David T. Mitchell, David T. Snyder Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2015
• EAN: 9780472072712
• ISBN: 978-0-472-07271-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Corporealities: Discourses of; Corporealities: Discourses of Disability; Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology