Disability and Dissensus: Strategies of Disability Representation and Inclusion in Contemporary Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-40598-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 47, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: International Comparative Social Studies

Disability and Dissensus is a comprehensive collection of essays that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of critical cultural disability studies. The volume offers a selection of texts by numerous specialists in different areas of the humanities, both well-established scholars and young academics, as well as practitioners and activists from the USA, the UK, Poland, Ireland, and Greece. Taking inspiration from Critical Disability Studies and Jacques Rancière’s philosophy, the book critically engages with the changing modes of disability representation in contemporary cultures. It sheds light both on inspirations and continuities as well as tensions and conflicts within contemporary disability studies, fostering new understandings of human diversity and contributing to a dissensual ferment of thought in the academia, arts, and activism.

Contributors are: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Marek Mackiewicz-Ziccardi, Malgorzata Sugiera, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, Maria Tsakiri, Murray K. Simpson, James Casey, Agnieszka Izdebska, Edyta Lorek-Jezinska, Dorota Krzeminska, Jolanta Rzeznicka-Krupa, Wiktoria Siedlecka-Dorosz, Katarzyna Ojrzynska, Christian O’Reilly, and Len Collin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ojrzynska, Katarzyna

Wieczorek, Maciej

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Disability and Dissensus

Katarzyna Ojrzynska and Maciej Wieczorek

Part 1
(Re)Defining Models of Disability and Normalcy: Theories and Contexts

1 Critical Disability Studies in the Humanities

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Katarzyna Ojrzynska

2 Critical Disability Studies: Sketches from Poland and the UK

Dan Goodley and Marek Mackiewicz-Ziccardi

3 Making Sense of Bodies: Models and Metaphors in Sciences and Arts

Malgorzata Sugiera

Part 2
Disability Film Festivals: The Politics of Representation and Participation

4 Disability Cinema: Charting Alternative Ethical Maps of Living on Film

David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder

5 Disability Film Festivals: The Spaces where Crip Killjoys Take Action

Maria Tsakiri

Part 3
Between the Real and the Reel

6 Disability, Gender, and Innocence: Russ Meyer’s Mudhoney and Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!and Problems of Signification in Cinema

Murray K. Simpson

7 “Never the Twain Shall Meet”: Myth and Miracles in Jessica Hauser’s 2009 Film Lourdes

James Casey

Part 4
Bodies that Matter: Representing and Experiencing Non-Standard Physiques

8 A Dwarf – A Metaphor and a Body in Words and Images

Agnieszka Izdebska

9 Disability and Its Doubles: The Conflicting Discourses of Disability in Susan Nussbaum’s No One as Nasty

Edyta Lorek-Jezinska

Part 5
Beyond Therapy

10 Between Therapy and Art: Borderline Space in Polish Theatre of People with Intellectual (Dis)Ability

Dorota Krzeminska and Jolanta Rzeznicka-Krupa

11 ‘…and we all’: The Phenomenon of Theatre 21

Wiktoria Siedlecka-Dorosz

Part 6
From Life to Stage and Screen: Blue Teapot’s Sanctuary

12 Shooting Actors who have Intellectual Disabilities: A Reflexive Analysis on the Making of the Feature Film Sanctuary

Len Collin

13 Christian O’Reilly Talks about His Writing on Disability for the Stage and for the Screen

Christian O’Reilly

Disability, Dis(sensual)Art, and the Politics of Participation

Maciej Wieczorek and Katarzyna Ojrzynska

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katarzyna Ojrzynska, Ph.D. (2013), is Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz, Poland. She has published widely on cultural disability studies and Irish studies, and translated Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s book on staring into Polish (forthcoming in 2020).


Maciej Wieczorek is a doctoral candidate at the University of Lodz, Poland. He has published a number of articles on political theatre, and translated the seminal “The Fundamental Principles of Disability” (UPIAS) into Polish.