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Foucault and the Government of Disability is the first book-length investigation of the relevance and importance of the ideas of Michel Foucault to the field of disability studies-and vice versa. Over the last thirty years, politicized conceptions of disability have precipitated significant social change, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the redesign of urban landscapes, the appearance of closed-captioning on televisions, and the growing recognition that disabled people constitute a marginalized and disenfranchised constituency.
The provocative essays in this volume respond to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating, while they challenge established understandings of Foucault's analyses and offer fresh approaches to his work. The book's roster of distinguished international contributors represents a broad range of disciplines and perspectives, making this a timely and necessary addition to the burgeoning field of disability studies.
"A serious step forward not only for disability studies but for the range of theoretical positions associated with Foucault. Foucault and the Government of Disability will provide for years to come a basis for rethinking Foucault's impact on social theory as well as a foundation for active political struggle against the oppression of people with disabilities."
-- Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan
"Testimony to the enduring power of Foucault's work to stimulate new ways of thinking about and resisting the pernicious effects of normalization within modern societies... Critically engaging Foucault as well as received interpretations of his work, this collection is intended for readers of Foucault as well as critical disability theorists. It delivers on its promise to stimulate us to think differently about both disability and Foucault."
-- Jana Sawicki, Williams College
Shelley Tremain teaches in the Philosophy Department of the University of Toronto at Mississauga.
The provocative essays in this volume respond to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating, while they challenge established understandings of Foucault's analyses and offer fresh approaches to his work. The book's roster of distinguished international contributors represents a broad range of disciplines and perspectives, making this a timely and necessary addition to the burgeoning field of disability studies.
"A serious step forward not only for disability studies but for the range of theoretical positions associated with Foucault. Foucault and the Government of Disability will provide for years to come a basis for rethinking Foucault's impact on social theory as well as a foundation for active political struggle against the oppression of people with disabilities."
-- Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan
"Testimony to the enduring power of Foucault's work to stimulate new ways of thinking about and resisting the pernicious effects of normalization within modern societies... Critically engaging Foucault as well as received interpretations of his work, this collection is intended for readers of Foucault as well as critical disability theorists. It delivers on its promise to stimulate us to think differently about both disability and Foucault."
-- Jana Sawicki, Williams College
Shelley Tremain teaches in the Philosophy Department of the University of Toronto at Mississauga.
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Twenty years after Michel Foucault died of complications from AIDS, the scope of his intellectual endeavors and the tremendous impetus to social change which that body of work offers are only beginning to be appreciated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
facilitated communication debate, paraplegic body, gender apparatus, deaf alumni, deaf youth, spinal unit, gender subversives, gender policing, disability theorists, gender dimorphism, modern governmentality, gender police, gender experts, critical ontology, historical ontology, disability discourse, negative ontology, human anomalies, gender border, disability studies, triple test, care accommodation, genetic diagnostics, ethical project, social injury Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon, Paul Rabinow, Pierre Rivière, Robert Hurley, John Mepham, Kate Soper, Leo Marshall, Gallaudet University Press, Peter Miller, Allen Lane, Graham Burchell, Harvard University Press, United Kingdom, Van Cleve, Otara Spinal Unit, Teachers College Press, American Asylum, Polity Press, The Birth of the Prison, Collected Papers, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Gerald Clark New!
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Twenty years after Michel Foucault died of complications from AIDS, the scope of his intellectual endeavors and the tremendous impetus to social change which that body of work offers are only beginning to be appreciated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
facilitated communication debate, paraplegic body, gender apparatus, deaf alumni, deaf youth, spinal unit, gender subversives, gender policing, disability theorists, gender dimorphism, modern governmentality, gender police, gender experts, critical ontology, historical ontology, disability discourse, negative ontology, human anomalies, gender border, disability studies, triple test, care accommodation, genetic diagnostics, ethical project, social injury Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon, Paul Rabinow, Pierre Rivière, Robert Hurley, John Mepham, Kate Soper, Leo Marshall, Gallaudet University Press, Peter Miller, Allen Lane, Graham Burchell, Harvard University Press, United Kingdom, Van Cleve, Otara Spinal Unit, Teachers College Press, American Asylum, Polity Press, The Birth of the Prison, Collected Papers, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Gerald Clark New!
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- Michel Foucault by Hubert L. (Hubert Lederer) Dreyfus on 13 pages
- Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics by Hubert L. Dreyfus on 11 pages
- Ethics: v. 1: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 (Essential Works of Foucault 1) by Michel Foucault on 9 pages
- The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault on 7 pages
- The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault on 4 pages
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- Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology by Sandra Harding on page 168, and page 170
- Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life by Gerard Goggin in Back Matter
- Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 2 by Regna Darnell on page 262
- Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology by Sandra Harding on page 168
- Knowledge And Civilization by Barry Allen in Back Matter
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