Culture ? Theory ? Disability

ISBN 10: 3837625338 / ISBN 13: 9783837625332

Published by transcript, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Culture ? Theory ? Disability
• Publisher: transcript
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837625338
• ISBN 13: 9783837625332
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture – Theory – Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum.
This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy.
It includes essays by Lennard J. Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer and Margrit Shildrick.

About the Authors

Anne Waldschmidt (Dr. rer. pol.) ist Professorin für Soziologie und Politik der Rehabilitation sowie Disability Studies an der Universität zu Köln. Sie leitet die Internationale Forschungsstelle Disability Studies (iDiS). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Körper- und Wissenssoziologie, Biopolitik, Sozial- und Behindertenpolitik sowie Disability Studies.

Hanjo Berressem, geb. 1956, lehrt amerikanische Literatur und Kultur an der Universität zu Köln. Er hat Bücher zu Thomas Pynchon, Witold Gombrowicz, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari und zum Begriff des Eigenwerts verfasst sowie über 100 Aufsätze zur amerikanischen Literatur, Literaturwissenschaft, Medienwissenschaft, der Schnittstelle von Kunst und Wissenschaft sowie der Beziehung von Literatur und Ökologie.

Moritz Ingwersen is Junior Professor and Chair of North American Literature and Future Studies at TU Dresden. He holds a joint PhD in Cultural Studies and English from Trent University, Ontario, and the University of Cologne and has taught at the University of Konstanz, the University of Cologne, and the University of Arts Bremen. His research and teaching focus on critical intersections of the environmental humanities, speculative fiction, science & technology studies, and North American literatures.