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This book examines how disability is shaped by the transformation of modern society, using Zygmunt Bauman s concepts of solid modernity and liquid modernity to understand the changing forms of power, exclusion and moral indifference that disabled people face. Drawing on key debates in disability studies, it offers a new social theory of disablement that centres the lived consequences of order-making, surveillance, moral distancing and time. It positions disablement as essential to the study of society and argues for a future built on dignity, solidarity and the ethics of interdependence, one that leaves behind productivism and is grounded in care.
An invaluable read for academics at all levels as well as students in disability studies, social theory, sociology, and related disciplines, this accessible monograph offers a new theoretical framework to reflect on the disablist character of society.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Disability and the Transformation of Social Theory: A Dialogue of Human Consequences.- Chapter 2. The Horror of Order: Impairment and the Making of the Manageable Body.- Chapter 3. From Watchtowers to Screens: Power, Exclusion, and the Surveillance of Disabled Lives.- Chapter 4. The Violence of Indifference: Adiaphorization and Disability.- Chapter 5. Crip time linear and pointillist forms.- Chapter 6. The Dignity of Interdependence: The Fragile Hope of the Enabling World to Come.
About the author
Tom Campbell
is Associate Professor of Social Theory in the School of Sociology and Social Policy and Deputy Director (Education) of the Leeds Institute for Societal Futures at the University of Leeds, UK, where he is also a member of the Centre for Disability Studies and the Bauman Institute. His work examines the relationship between disablement, social theory and modernity, with a particular focus on the writings of Zygmunt Bauman.
