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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789894103321

Autore

Erevelles N

Titolo

Disability and Difference in Global Contexts [[electronic resource] ] : Enabling a Transformative Body Politic / / by N. Erevelles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-38184-2

9786613381842

1-137-00118-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Classificazione

SOC029000SOC050000SOC020000EDU040000

Disciplina

305.908

Soggetti

Social structure

Equality

Sociology

Educational sociology

Philosophy and social sciences

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Sociology, general

Sociology of Education

Philosophy of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Making Bodies that Matter: The Political Economy of "Becoming" (Disabled) * Of Ghosts and Ghetto Politics: Embodying Education Policy as if Disability Mattered * "Unspeakable" Offenses: Disability Studies at the Intersection of Multiple Differences (with Andrea Minear) * Embodied Antimonies: Feminist Disability Studies Meets Third World Feminism * (Im)Material Citizens: Cognitive Disability, Race, and the Politics of Citizenship * The "Other" Side of the Dialectic: Towards a Materialist Ethic of Care.

Sommario/riassunto

Disability and Difference in Global Contexts explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social



and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.