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

Maciej Wieczorek Katarzyna Ojrzy?ska

ISBN 10: 900447143X / ISBN 13: 9789004471436

Published by Brill Dez 2021, 2021

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Neuware - Disability and Dissensus is an interdisciplinary volume that critically engages with disability representation in contemporary cultures, fostering new understandings of human diversity and contributing to a dissensual ferment of thought in the academia, arts, and activism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disability and Dissensus: Strategies of Disability Representation and Inclusion in Contemporary Culture
• Publisher: Brill Dez 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900447143X
• ISBN 13: 9789004471436
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 155H x 18D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 408 grams

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Synopsis

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, Małgorzata Sugiera, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, Maria Tsakiri, Murray K. Simpson, James Casey, Agnieszka Izdebska, Edyta Lorek-Jezińska, Dorota Krzemińska, Jolanta Rzeźnicka-Krupa, Wiktoria Siedlecka-Dorosz, Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, Christian O’Reilly, and Len Collin.

About the Author

Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, 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.