Michele Ilana Friedner

Gebundenes Buch

Sensory Futures

Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India

Beschreibung

"Sensory Futures explores deaf people's desires to create habitable worlds, grappling with their futures amid a surge in biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism. With implications for a broad range of disability experiences, this sensitive, in-depth research focuses on the specific experiences of deaf people, both children and adults, and the structural, political, and social possibilities biotechnological and social "cures" offer"--

Autor

Michele Ilana Friedner is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She is author of Valuing Deaf Worlds in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 146mm x 223mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781517912123
• ISBN-10: 1517912121
• Artikelnr.: 68756307