Disability Worlds: A Book by Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp
Ian C. Langtree - Writer/Editor for Disabled World (DW)
Published: 2024/03/03
Publication Type: Product Release / Update
Topic: Disability Publications - Publications List
Page Content: Synopsis - Introduction - Main
Synopsis: Disability Worlds chronicles and theorizes 20 years of immersion in NYC's disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. Disability Worlds highlights the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public culture, and reflects the authors' anthropological commitments to recognizing the significance of this fundamental form of human difference.
Introduction
Synopsis
In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City's wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars.
Main Item
They situate their disabled children's lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition and rights. Disability consciousness, they show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions. Chapters consider dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of "special education," and the perils of transitioning from high school.
They also highlight the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public culture. Disability Worlds reflects the authors' anthropological commitments to recognizing the significance of this fundamental form of human difference.
Ginsburg and Rapp's conversations with diverse New Yorkers reveal the bureaucratic constraints and paradoxes established in response to the disability rights movement, as well as the remarkable creativity of disabled people and their allies who are opening pathways into both disability justice and disability futures.
Authors
Faye Ginsburg is Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, Co-director of the Center for Disability Studies, and the author and editor of several books including Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community.
Rayna Rapp is Professor Emerita(1) of Anthropology at New York University and the author and editor of several books including Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America.
Testimonial Praise
Disability Worlds is a remarkable book, and the world will be a better place for it. It is like nothing else in the disability studies canon. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp are already major figures in the field, standing for decades at the still-too-sparsely-trafficked crossroads of disability studies and anthropology, and this book will become a standard reference point. - Michael Bérubé, author of, Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up.
Ginsburg and Rapp are both renowned anthropologists who have made significant contributions to the study of disability, culture, and society. Their collaborative work offers a nuanced exploration of disability from various cultural and social perspectives, shedding light on the diverse experiences and realities of disabled individuals around the world. If you're interested in disability studies or anthropology, this book would likely be an insightful and thought-provoking read - Ian Langtree, Disabled World (disabled-world.com).
Having already forged disability studies and disability-inclusive practices within anthropology, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp author a powerful new theoretical framework for understanding the multiple institutional and cultural dynamics of ableism. Looking beyond the past, the book also evokes disability futures in beautifully rendered ethnographies of scholars, artists, and activists who are leading efforts at disability reworlding. I cannot imagine teaching my medical anthropology course again without Disability Worlds - Carolyn M. Rouse, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Encountering Disability Worlds
1. The Doubled Telos of Modernity: Genetic Screening, Atypical Brains, and Neurodiversity
2. New Kinship Imaginaries and Their Limits
3. The Paradox of Recognition and the Social Production of Moxie
4. Transitioning to Nowhere?
5. Living Otherwise: Worlding Disability Arts
6. Disability Worlds / Disability Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Book Details
Pages: 288
Language: English
Publish Date: May 10, 2024
ISBN-13: 9781478030409
EAN/UPC : 9781478026181
Publisher: Duke University Press
BISAC Categories: Anthropology - Cultural & Social, People with Disabilities, Special Education: Learning Disabilities, Public Policy: Social Services & Welfare.
(1) "Professor Emerita" is a title conferred upon a female professor who has retired from her position but retains an honorary or advisory role within the institution. The male equivalent is "Professor Emeritus." This title is typically granted to individuals who have made significant contributions to their field during their academic careers.
Author Credentials: Ian was born and grew up in Australia. Since then, he has traveled and lived in numerous locations and currently resides in Montreal, Canada. Ian is the founder, a writer, and editor in chief for Disabled World. Ian believes in the Social Model of Disability, a belief developed by disabled people in the 1970s. The social model changes the focus away from people's impairments and towards removing barriers that disabled people face daily. To learn more about Ian's background, expertise, and achievements, check out his bio.