Disability and Dissensus: Strategies of Disability Representation and Inclusion in Contemporary Culture

Disability and Dissensus is an interdisciplinary volume that critically engages with disability representation in contemporary cultures, fostering new understandings of human diversity and contributing to a dissensual ferment of thought in the academia, arts, and activism.

About the author

Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, Ph.D. (2013), is Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz, Poland. She has published widely on cultural disability studies and Irish studies, and translated Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's book on staring into Polish (forthcoming in 2020).

Maciej Wieczorek is a doctoral candidate at the University of Lodz, Poland. He has published a number of articles on political theatre, and translated the seminal "The Fundamental Principles of Disability" (UPIAS) into Polish.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2020
• EAN: 9789004405981
• ISBN: 978-90-04-40598-1
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: International Comparative Soci
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education