Reimagining disablist and ableist violence as abjection
"Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection. Extending interdisciplinary dialogues and approaches,...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY
Routledge
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
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| Summary: | "Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection. Extending interdisciplinary dialogues and approaches, it abandons a construct of violence (which by law requires a stable notion of a victim and a perpetrator) and moves to a theorisation of abjection to explore the ways in which disabled subjects are (re)produced, constituted, and treated through time. Deploying a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, this book sits at the intersections of criminology and sociology, re-thinking notions of dis/ability, violence, and subjectivity, and utilising crip and queer theory to imagine dis/ability differently"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 171 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780367365547 9780367525002 |