Disability and Social Theory

1. Introducing Disability and Social Theory
Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes, Lennard Davis

Part I. Cultures

2. Civilising Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled People
Bill Hughes

3. Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of ‘Disability’ in the Academy
Rebecca Mallett, Katherine Runswick-Cole

4. Disability and the Majority World: A Neocolonial Approach
Shaun Grech

5. Discourses of Disabled Peoples’ Organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu and Future Perspectives
Theo Blackmore, Stephen Lee Hodgkins

Part II. Bodies

6. Cyborgs, Cripples and iCrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies
Donna Reeve

7. Theory, Impairment and Impersonal Singularities: Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben
James Overboe

8. The Body as the Problem of Individuality: A Phenomenological Disability Studies Approach
Tanya Titchkosky, Rod Michalko

9. Dancing with Disability: An Intersubjective Approach
Eimir McGrath

Part III. Subjectivities

10. Nomadology and Subjectivity: Deleuze, Guattari and Critical Disability Studies
Griet Roets, Rosi Braidotti

11. Jacques Lacan + Paul Hunt = Psychoanalytic Disability Studies
Dan Goodley

12. Intellectual Disability Trouble: Foucault and Goffman on ‘Challenging Behaviour’
Karl Nunkoosing, Mark Haydon-Laurelut

13. Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose ‘Abled’ Narcissism
Fiona Kumari Campbell

Part IV. Communities

14. Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability Studies
Rebecca Lawthom

15. Disability, Development and Postcolonialism
Tsitsi Chataika

16. Engaging with Disability with Postcolonial Theory
Anita Ghai

17. Recognition, Respect and Rights: Women with Disabilities in a Globalised World
Carolyn Frohmader, Helen Meekosha

18. Conclusion: Disability and Social Theory
Bill Hughes, Dan Goodley, Lennard Davis

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Theory, Sociology, general, Social Policy, Medical Law, Gender Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality