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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966463003321

Autore

Erevelles Nirmala <1965->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786613381842

9781283381840

1283381842

9781137001184

1137001186

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Classificazione

SOC029000SOC050000SOC020000EDU040000

Disciplina

305.9/08

Soggetti

Social structure

Equality

Sociology

Educational sociology

Education - Philosophy

Social Structure

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.