Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic [Hardcover]

This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.Making Bodies that Matter: The Political Economy of 'Becoming' (Disabled)
Of Ghosts and Ghetto Politics: Embodying Education Policy as if Disability Mattered
'Unspeakable' Offenses: Disability Studies at the Intersection of Multiple Differences (with Andrea Minear)
Embodied Antimonies: Feminist Disability Studies Meets Third World Feminism
(Im)Material Citizens: Cognitive Disability, Race, and the Politics of Citizenship
The 'Other' Side of the Dialectic: Towards a Materialist Ethic of Care
"The time for Disability and Difference in Global Contexts is now. At the forefront of both the global and materialist turns in disability studies, Erevelles provides readers with an indispensable analysis of the ways in which disability in the current world order is constructed in relation to systems of gender, race, class, caste, and sexual orientation. Erevelles calls for a transformative body politic that resists the compulsory subject positions and relations of domination generated by neoliberal, capitalist modes of production. In and through that call, she remaps, in emancipatory ways, the terrain of disability studies, feminist studies, Marxist theory, postcolonial theory, and education." Robert McRuer, Professor of English, George Washington University, USA

"In this wide-ranging exploration through the often violent historical imbrications of disability and race, Erevelles brings us to questions we will never soon forget. This book demonstrates the historical production of disability and other social differences as they press upon us today making our bodies, minds, senses matter as the conflicting social scenes that tlÓ3