Disabled Futures | A Framework for Radical Inclusion

Milo W Obourn

ISBN 10: 1439917310 / ISBN 13: 9781439917312

Published by Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press, 2020

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Disabled Futures | A Framework for Radical Inclusion | Milo W Obourn | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2020 | Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press | EAN 9781439917312 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disabled Futures | A Framework for Radical Inclusion
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439917310
• ISBN 13: 9781439917312
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 226W x 147H x 15D millimeters 226 millimeters width by 147 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 350 grams
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Synopsis

Disabled Futures makes an important intervention in disability studies by taking an intersectional approach to race, gender, and disability. Milo Obourn reads disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies to develop a framework for addressing inequity. They theorize the concept of “racialized disgender”—to describe the ways in which racialization and gendering are social processes with disabling effects—thereby offering a new avenue for understanding race, gender, and disability as mutually constitutive.  

Obourn uses readings of literature and popular culture from Lost and Avatar to Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy to explore and unpack specific ways that race and gender construct—and are constructed by—historical notions of ability and disability, sickness and health, and successful recovery versus damaged lives. What emerges is not only a more complex and deeper understanding of the intersections between ableism, racism, and (cis)sexism, but also possibilities for imagining alternate and more radically inclusive futures in which all of our identities, experiences, freedoms, and oppressions are understood as interdependent and intertwined.

About the Author

Milo W. Obourn is an Associate Professor of English and Women & Gender Studies at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, and the author of Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature.