Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven der Disability Studies: Tagungsdokumentation. This item is unavailable.Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven der Disability Studies: Tagungsdokumentation

The phenomenon of disability and the life situation of disabled people have so far been more interested in the applied sciences such as medicine and healing and special education. On the other hand, the new research field of Disability Studies offers innovative access to refl the phenomenon of disability. Above all, the Disability Studies bring cultural studies into disability discourse. From a cultural science perspective, surprisingly new insights are possible, for example into the way everyday knowledge produces, normalities made, differentiation categories established, societal practices of inclusion and exclusion are designed, personal and social identities are shaped, and new body images are created. Normality in Modernity, Poetic Production and Subjectivity, Everyday Interaction Between Blind and Sighter, National Socialist Forced Sterilization, Historical Biography Research, Natural Fools in the Middle Ages, Anthropology of the Body and the "Social Model" of Disability from the Perspective of British Disability Studies - all these topics belong to the cultural science approach and make its diversity. and Fascination of. The editor Dr. Anne Waldschmidt is a professor of sociology in is professor of sociology in healing education, social policy and social management at the University of Cologne. The new field of research of Disability Studies provides an innovative approach to reflect on the phenomenon of disability.