Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3

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   2. Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity: Interregnum or Productive Interruption?

      • Julie Allan

      Pages 5-17

   3. Alternative Agencies: Materialist Navigations Below the Radar of Disability Studies

      • David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder

      Pages 19-24

   4. The Cost of Counting Disability: Theorizing the Possibility of a Non-economic Remainder

      • Tanya Titchkosky

      Pages 25-40

   5. Theorising Disability and Humanity

      • Dan Goodley

      Pages 41-51

   6. The Metaphor of Civic Threat: Intellectual Disability and Education for Citizenship

      • Ashley Taylor

      Pages 53-67

   7. Complex and Critical: A Methodological Application of the Tripartite Model of Disability

      • David Bolt

      Pages 69-78

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-80

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   2. Unexpected Anatomies: Extraordinary Bodies in Contemporary Art

      • Ann M. Fox

      Pages 81-92

   3. The Names of Physical Deformity: A Meditation on the Term Disability and Its Recent Uses

      • Melania Moscoso Pérez

      Pages 93-105

   4. “Once Big Oil, Always Big Oil”: Disability and Sustainability in Pixar’s Cars 2

      • Shannon R. Wooden

      Pages 107-118

   5. “I’d Prefer Not To”: Melville’s Challenge to Normative Identity in Bartleby, the Scrivener

      • Natalie M. Fleming

      Pages 119-126

   6. Co-Constructing Frames for Resistance: Reflections on Disability by a Daughter and Her Mother

      • Suzanne Stolz

      Pages 127-139

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-142

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   2. Relational Pedagogies of Disability: Cognitive Accessibility in College Classrooms

      • Michelle Jarman, Valerie Thompson-Ebanks

      Pages 143-155

   3. The Totem Project: Pluralizing Access in the Academic Classroom

      • Louise Hickman, Lisa Cartwright, Elizabeth Losh, Monika Sengul-Jones, Yelena Gluzman

      Pages 157-170

   4. “I Have to Be Black Before I Am Disabled”: Understanding Agency, Positionality, and Recognition in Higher Education

      • Lauren Shallish

      Pages 171-179

   5. Writing, Identity, and the Other: Dare We Do Disability Studies?

      • Linda Ware

      Pages 181-204

   6. Sharing International Experiences to Develop Inclusion in a German Context: Reflections of an American Inclusive Educator

      • David J. Connor

      Pages 205-217

This edited volume includes chapters on disability studies organized around three themes: Theory, Philosophy and Critique. Informed by a range of scholars who may or may not fashion their work beneath the banner of disability studies in explicit terms, it draws connections across a range of identities, knowledges, histories, and struggles that may, on the face of the text seem unrelated. The chapters are cross-categorical and interdisciplinary for purposes of complicating disability studies across international contexts and multiple locations that consider practice-oriented and intersectional approaches for analysis and advocacy. This integrative approach heralds more powerful ways to imagine disability and the conversation on disability.

• Critical pedagogy
• Critical studies
• Disability inclusion
• Diversity in education
• Inclusive education
• Learning disabilities
• Special needs education
• (Dis)Assemblages
• Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
• Disability in education

• Independent Scholar, Corrales, USA

  Linda Ware

Linda Ware, Independent Scholar, survived a lengthy academic career at universities from New Mexico to New York. Her research and scholarship provoked dialogue and debate specific to the limitations of special education as an institutional obstacle to disabled children and youth. Her publications appeared in prestigious national and international academic journals. Ware serves as the lead editor for Critical Leaders and the Foundation of Disability Studies in Education (Brill, 2019), which along with Ideology and the Politics of (in)Exclusion (2004, Peter Lang) elaborate on the necessary distinction between critical disability studies and special education.  She also served as a Section Editor for Beginning with Disability A Primer (2017, Routledge. L. J. Davis, Editor). Ware now happily resides near Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

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