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Biopolitics of disability : neoliberalism, ablenationalism, and peripheral embodiment /

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In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon "ablenationalism" and asserts that "in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, David T., 1962-
Other Authors: Snyder, Sharon L., 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Series:Corporealities.
Subjects:
Disability studies.
People with disabilities > Civil rights.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
Disabilities > Government policy.
People with disabilities > Government policy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From liberal to neoliberal futures of disability : rights-based inclusionism, ablenationalism, and the able-disabled
  • Curricular cripistemologies, or, every child left behind
  • Gay pasts and disability future(s) tense : heteronormative trauma and parasitism in Midnight Cowboy
  • The politics of atypicality : international disability film festivals and the productive fracturing of identity
  • Permutations of the species : independent disability cinema and the critique of ablenationalism
  • Corporeal subcultures and the specter of biopolitics
  • The capacities of incapacity in antinormative novels of embodiment
  • Afterword. Disability as multitude : reworking nonproductive labor power.