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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1997

Culture - Theory - Disability, 2017

2018

Notes de lecture 189 des personnes considérées comme handicapées mentales, serait dans une « éthique de responsabilité », qui permettrait un « dispositif pragmatique », quand la France serait dans une « éthique de conviction », qui se cantonnerait à « un débat idéologique » (p. 467 et 464). Lucie Nayak laisse la réflexion ouverte et appelle de ses voeux une étude spécifique et approfondie sur cette question.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 2015

Print Version: In this article, I review seven books published in disability studies in 2013 and 2014. Two of the books deal exclusively with the North American context. The remaining five books focus primarily on areas outside North America, including Europe, Asia and Latin America. Two of the books are edited anthologies of new and original work. Four books are single-authored monographs and one book is co-authored. A search of new work published in 2013 and 2014 revealed more than twenty books.

9783837625332This book offers a respectable collection of 23 essays that will interest scholars from a broad rangeof disciplines. In a brief foreword, the editors explain the idea behind and development of the volume,which derives in part from a lively exchange among established and young researchers with diversedisciplinary backgrounds at the University of Cologne (Germany) and a systematic policy of invitingprominent international disability studies scholars.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 2015

In this article, I review seven books published in disability studies in 2013 and 2014. Two of the books deal exclusively with the North American context. The remaining five books focus primarily on areas outside North America, including Europe, Asia and Latin America. Two of the books are edited anthologies of new and original work. Four books are single-authored monographs and one book is co-authored. A search of new work published in 2013 and 2014 revealed more than twenty books. As a way of narrowing the focus and organizing the essay, I begin with a critique of key issues raised in Lennard J. Davis’ The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era (UMichiganP [2013]) and go on to show how authors living and/or working in other parts of the world are engaging with, building on and diverging from what could be called a white, Western global North disability studies. In the end, I argue that decentring North American and UK disability studies reveals significant field-changing insights that will no doubt have profound and lasting effects on the study of disability and disabled people in the humanities and social sciences.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural , 2016

In last year’s article [2015] in this same journal, I discussed various theorizations of ‘normal’, ‘normality’, and more specifically, Lennard Davis’ assertion that we are witnessing the ‘end of normal’. Ideas about normality have formed a core concept upon which disability studies work has been built for decades. The authors I consider in this review article take on an equally important and no less capacious or fraught concept: citizenship. Or as Hirschmann and Linker, and their authors (Civil Disabilities, reviewed below) think of it: citizenship, membership, and belonging. In an effort to follow my own advice and decentre scholarship emerging out of the global North, I will begin the review in Guatemala with Shaun Grech’s innovative and powerful Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Renegotiating Development in Guatemala.

Disability & Society, 2014

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2008

given me much support and encouragement along the way to here, for which I am very grateful. I am indebted to the active student members of the seminar courses and voluntary reading groups with whom various aspects of this book have been put through the discussion wringer. I am especially grateful to Terri Pitts and Barbara Barker, who helped proof-read. Dan and Annette Ahem encouraged me throughout the writing of the book and offered me an unwavering belief that the project would come to fmition. Their sensitivity and humour were invaluable sources of support to me. xiv Acknowledgments Lindsay MeVicar responded to much of this work, offering many thought-provoking comments. Dan and Judy Macinnes contributed many good thoughts and shared many good times with me when I most needed them. Judy treated both my writing of the manuscript and its potential publication as an unquestionable matter of fact. I am especially grateful to Dan Macinnes, who was the Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology while I was writing this book. Against many odds, Dan treated me as a bona fide and valuable colleague, supported the continuation of my teaching, and encouraged me to teach courses that would enhance my writing. My deepest respect and gratitude I give to Rod Michalko. A life with him in blindness has made for much reading and many wonderful conversations, and has filled them, as well as this book, with vigour and life. I thank him also for maintaining a faith in me that I could not develop or maintain on my own. The provocation of his life, work, and wisdom has taught me the importance of developing a sociological stance that can speak to embodiment and to the moral implications behind being-in-the-world as disabled people.