Disability and Social Theory

DAN GOODLEY Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research and teaching aims to shake up dominant myths in psychology as well as contributing, in some small way, to the development of critical disability studies theories that understand and eradicate disablism. Recent publications include Psychology and Disability (co-edited with Rebecca Lawthom) and Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. BILL HUGHES Dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. He is co-author of The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction and a member of the Editorial Board of Disability & Society. LENNARD DAVIES Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Departments of Disability and Human Development, English, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois, USA. He is the author of Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, Bending Over Backwards: Disability and Other Difficult Positions, and Obsession: A History.

Notes on Contributors Introducing Disability and Social Theory; D.Goodley, B.Hughes& L.Davis PART I: CULTURES Civilizing Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled People; B.Hughes Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of 'Disability' in the Academy; R.Mallett& K.Runswick-Cole Disability and the Majority World: A Neo-Colonial Approach; S.Grech Discourses of Disabled Peoples Organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu and Future Perspectives; T.Blackmore& S.Hodgkins PART II: BODIES Cyborgs, Cripples and iCrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies; D.Reeve Theory, Impairment, and Impersonal Singularities: Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben; J.Overboe The Body as the Problem of Individuality: A Phenomenological Disability Studies Approach; T.Titchkosky& R.Michalko Dancing with Disability: An Intersubjective Approach; E.McGrath PART III: SUBJECTIVITIES Nomadology and Subjectivity: Deleuze, Guattari and Critical Disability Studies; G.Roets& R.Braidotti Jacques Lacan + Paul Hunt = Psychoanalytic Disability Studies; D.Goodley Intellectual Disability Trouble: Foucault and Goffman on 'Challenging Behaviour'; K.Nunkoosing& M.Laurelut Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose 'Abled' Narcissism; F.Campbell PART IV: COMMUNITIES Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability; R.Lawthom Disability, Development and Postcolonialism; T.Chataika Engaging Disability with Postcolonial Theory; A.Ghai Recognition, Respect and Rights: Women with Disabilities in a Globalised World; C.Frohmader& H.Meekosha Conclusions; B.Hughes, D.Goodley& L.Davis Glossary