Metanarratives of Disability (eBook, PDF)

Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order
Redaktion: Bolt, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000388398
• Artikelnr.: 61475317

Autorenporträt

David Bolt is Professor of Disability Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: International Developments of the Foundational Concept. 1. The
Metanarrative of Blindness in North America: Meaning, Feeling, and Feel. 2.
The Metanarrative of Blindness in the Global South: A LatDisCrit
Counterstory to the Bittersweet Mythology of Blindness as Giftedness. 3.
The Metanarrative of Blindness in India: Special Education and Assumed
Knowledge Cultures. Part 2: Beyond Normative Minds and Bodies. 4. The
Metanarrative of Mental Illness: A Collaborative Autoethnography. 5. The
Metanarrative of OCD: Deconstructing Positive Stereotypes in Media and
Popular Nomenclature. 6. The Metanarrative of Learning Disability:
Vulnerability, Unworthiness, and Requiring Control. 7. The Metanarrative of
Autism: Eternal Childhood and the Failure of Cure. 8. The Metanarrative of
Down Syndrome: Proximity to Animality. 9. The Metanarrative of Dwarfism:
Heightism and its Social Implications. Part 3: Chronic Conditions and the
Emergence of Disability. 10. The Metanarrative of Chronic Pain: Culpable,
Duplicitous, and Miserable. 11. The Metanarrative of Diabetes: Should You
Be Eating That? 12. The Metanarrative of Cancer: Disrupting the Battle
Myth. 13. The Metanarrative of HIV and AIDS: Losing Track of an Epidemic.
14. The Metanarrative of Sarcoidosis: Life in Liminality. 15. The
Metanarrative of Arthritis: Playing and Betraying the Endgame.