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Ableism Contours of Jacket

Contours of Ableism examines the production and maintenance of ableism, exploring the understanding of 'abledness' through themes such as embodiment, subjectivity, and technology. The study raises critical questions about the relationship between disability and desire, the role of law in shaping perceptions of impairment, and media representations of disability. Authored by Fiona Kumari Campbell, this book significantly contributes to the discourse on disability studies and challenges normative perspectives.

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Ableism Contours of Jacket

Contours of Ableism examines the production and maintenance of ableism, exploring the understanding of 'abledness' through themes such as embodiment, subjectivity, and technology. The study raises critical questions about the relationship between disability and desire, the role of law in shaping perceptions of impairment, and media representations of disability. Authored by Fiona Kumari Campbell, this book significantly contributes to the discourse on disability studies and challenges normative perspectives.

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Examining what the study of disability tells us about the production,

operation and maintenance of ableism, this ambitious study explores the


ways ‘abledness’ is understood. It provides new directions in research on

CONTOURS OF ABLEISM
'aberrancy' and its focus on a normative ethos. Reconfiguring, challenging
and extending the boundaries of a disability studies perspective, Contours
of Ableism explores territories of ableism in the themes of embodiment,
subjectivity, transhumanism, technologies and jurisprudence.

CONTOURS OF ABLEISM
THE PRODUCTION OF DISABILITY AND ABLEDNESS
The book uncovers sites of the production of ableism and conversely, sites
of resistance to ableist norms and practices to ask key questions such as
What happens when ‘disability’ and ‘desire’ are placed in close proximity?
Why is disgust aroused when there is an affirmative option for disability?
How does law reinforce negative associations of impairment? How does
the media present the promises of new disability technologies and medical
interventions? Is there a unique disability orientation to the world?

With a Foreword by Dan Goodley this book is a major contribution to our


understanding of abled and disabled bodies.

Fiona Kumari Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, School of


Human Services & Social Work, Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct
Professor in Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya,
Sri Lanka, and a person with disability. She writes on issues related to
disability philosophy, desire, law and technology, and her current research
encompasses South Asian approaches to disability.

FIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL


Printed in Great Britain
ISBN฀978-0-230-57928-6
90101

Cover image: On the Bars (1990), by 9 780230 579286


FIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL
Quentin Blayney (1974–1993) (oil on canvas)
by kind permission of Paula de Burgh.

www.palgrave.com

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