Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions (Autocritical Disability Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032229721 ISBN 13: 9781032229720

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This edited volume explores blindness as a construct with which we the contributors engage as part of our social existence and/or academic research. Irrespective of eye conditions, or the lack thereof, blindness is an understanding at which we have all come to arrive. On the way to this conceptual point, which is in any case unlikely ever to be fixed, we have passed or visited many formative cultural stations.
In the terms of autocritical disability studies (i.e. an explicitly embodied development of critical disability studies), these cultural stations include key moments in education and training; the reflective pursuits of philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural theory; literary works such as autobiography, novels, short stories, drama, and poetry; visual texts ranging from photography to postage stamps; technological developments like television, computer applications, and social media; value systems defined by family and/or religion; and the social phenomenon of hate and war. Each chapter in this volume engages with two of these cultural stations; some ostensibly if not profoundly positive or indeed negative and some that contradict each other within and across chapters.
This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, education, and health.

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About the Author

David Bolt (Professor) is Personal Chair in Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom. He completed his PhD in 2004 at the University of Staffordshire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032229721
• ISBN 13: 9781032229720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Bolt David