Addressing Ableism (eBook)

Philosophical Questions via Disability Studies

Jennifer Scuro (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
276 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4075-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book outlines the scale and scope of ableist bias, as it manifests both institutionally and intergenerationally. Ranging across disability studies, continental philosophy, and bioethics, the philosophical questions addressed in this work confront and resist ableism as it frames our world in uninhabitable and unsustainable ways.

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Addressing Ableism is a set of philosophical meditations outlining the scale and scope of ableism. By explicating concepts like experience, diagnosis, precariousness, and prosthesis, Scuro maps out the institutionalized and intergenerational forms of this bias as it is analogous and yet also distinct from other kinds of dehumanization, discrimination, and oppression. This project also includes a dialogical chapter on intersectionality with Devonya Havis and Lydia Brown, a philosopher and writer/activist respectively. Utilizing theorists like Judith Butler, Tobin Siebers, Emmanuel Levinas, and Hannah Arendt to address ableism, Scuro thoroughly critiques the neoliberal culture and politics that underwrites ableist affections and phobias. This project exposes the many material and non-material harms of ableism, and it offers multiple avenues to better confront and resist ableism in its many forms. Scuro provides crucial insights into the many uninhabitable and unsustainable effects of ableism and how we might revise our intentions and desires for the sake of a less ableist world.

Autor

Jennifer Scuro is associate professor at The College of New Rochelle.

Inhalt

Foreword by Joel Michael ReynoldsPrologue: the scale and scope of ableismOne: experienceTwo: diagnosisThree: intersectionality – a dialogue with Devonya N. Havis and Lydia X. Z. BrownFour: precariousnessFive: prosthesisEpilogue: parts and wholes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2017
• Co-Autor: Lydia X. Z. Brown, Devonya N. Havis
• Vorwort: Joel Michael Reynolds
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: ablebodied • Alienation • allyship • Arendt • Autism • Bias • Bioethics • Bullying • caretaker • dehumanizing • diagnoses • Disability Studies • dismembering • disorder • enmembering • Feminist philosophy • Intersectionality • interstitiality • Judith Butler • Justice • Levinas • neurodiversity • Oppression • Phenomenology • Plato • Precarity • Prosthesis • Shelley Tremain • Social Theory • somatophobia • Special education • Value Judgments
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4075-9 / 1498540759
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4075-9 / 9781498540759