1st Edition
Clashing Vulnerabilities, Disability and Conflict
Introduction: Clashing vulnerabilities
Don Kulick and Simo Vehmas
Chapter One – Curb clash: blindness, wheelchairs, and tactile paving
Elaine Bass Jenks
Chapter Two – Embodied vulnerability vs. capitalist privilege
Jan Grue
Chapter Three – Freedom vs. disability
Marie Sépulchre
Chapter Four – Rights vs. wrong: debates about sex and disability
Don Kulick
Chater Five – Grassroots disability movement vs. disability organizations
Pekka Koskinen
Chapter Six – French teachers vs. disabled students
Cristina Popescu
Chapter Seven – Long COVID vs. Functional Neurological Disorder: punching down
Shelley Dawson
Chapter Eight – Day centre staff vs. service users during the COVID-19 pandemic
Richard Gäddman Johansson and Kristina Engwall
Chapter Nine – Inherent vs. contingent vulnerabilities in the care for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities
Simo Vehmas, Femmianne Bredewold, Reetta Mietola and Simon van der Weele
Biography
Don Kulick is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at Uppsala University and Visiting Chair Professor at Hong Kong University.
Simo Vehmas is Professor of Special Education at Stockholm University.
An excellent volume with each chapter offering fresh revelations! This critical subject is rarely discussed in disability studies. Every fix for one vulnerability creates new problems for another form of vulnerability. The probing essays challenge us to be attentive to conflicts and more innovative in seeking solutions.
Eva Feder Kittay, Stony Brook University
An extraordinarily useful discussion of conceptual tensions inherent in disability, which should be required reading for all who wish to explore its complications.
Tom Shakespeare, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
In showing the need for detailed, empirically based analyses to gain an understanding of vulnerabilities in conflict, this collection marks a significant step in the development of the field of disability studies.
Jackie Leach Scully, University of New South Wales
