Introduction: Towards disability justice in a pandemic worlds / Matthew C. Murray, Licia Carlson. Theoretical considerations. Power, disability and the academic production of knowledge / Matthew C. Murray -- Depending on the undependable : disability, fragility and instability / Adam Cureton -- Universal view of disability and its danger to the civil rights model / Doron Dorfman -- On (not) deserving disadvantage : what kind of difference does "disability" make? / Leslie Francis -- Being and deafness : examining ontology and ethics within the dialectic of hearing loss and deaf-gain and deafness-and-disability / Michael E. Skyler -- Spaces, representations, and lived boundaries. Poems / Jim Ferris -- "We are all disabled" : feathers, continuities, and a neglected musical argument? / Stefan Sunandan Honisch -- Robinson Crusoe and Peter the wild boy : what Daniel Dafoe inadvertently tells us about disability / D. Christopher Gabbard -- Borderlands and neurodiversity : aren't we all humans? / Sara Newman -- We are all disabled, until we are not / Teresa Blankmeyer Burke -- Thoughts on precarity, disablement, and risk during COVID-19 [coronavirus disease of 2019] / Sandy Sufian, Licia Carlson -- Towards disability justice in a pandemic worlds / Matthew C. Murray, Licia Carlson.
Summary:
"This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology. By focusing on the statement, "We are all disabled", the book explores the following questions: What are the philosophical, political and practical implications of making this claim? What conceptions of disability underlie it? When, if ever, is this claim justified, and when or why might it be problematic or harmful? What are the implications of claiming "we are all disabled" amidst this global COVID-19 pandemic? These critical reflections on the boundaries of disability include perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, law, and the arts. In exploring the boundaries of disability, and the ways in which these lines are drawn theoretically, legally, medically, socially and culturally, the authors in this volume challenge particular conceptions of disability, expand the meaning and significance of the term, and consider the implications of claiming disability as an identity. It will be of interest to a broad audience, including disability scholars, advocates and activists, philosophers and historians of disability, moral theorists, clinicians, legal scholars, and artists"-- Provided by publisher.
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