Mobilizing metaphor : art, culture, and disability activism in Canada / / edited by Christine Kelly and Michael Orsini

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, British Columbia ; ; Toronto, [Ontario] : , : UBC Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.87
• Soggetto topico: People with disabilities and the arts - Canada; People with disabilities - Political activity - Canada
• Classificazione: LB 47605
• Persona (resp. second.): KellyChristine; OrsiniMichael
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction ; Part 1: Assemblages of Disability Research, Art, and Social Transformation; 1 Fixing; 2 Imagining Otherwise; 3 PosterVirus; 4 Deaf and Disability Arts; 5 "It Fell on Deaf Ears"; Part 2: Artistic Paths to Disability Activism; 6 (Dis)quiet in the Peanut Gallery; 7 Battle Lines Drawn; 8 Deconstructing Phonocentrism; 9 Crip the Light Fantastic; 10 Claiming "the Masters" for Disability Rights; Part 3: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Disability Movements; 11 Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments ; 12 Challenging Rhetorical Indifference with a Cripped Poetry of Witness13 The Body as Resistance Art/ifact; 14 Divided No More; 15 Accountability, Agency, and Absence; Conclusion ; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the vibrant tradition of disability activism in Canada, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mobilizing metaphor
• ISBN: 0-7748-3279-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136635203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Disability: Culture and Politics