1st Edition
Defining the Boundaries of Disability Critical Perspectives
Introduction: What does it mean to claim “we are all disabled”?
LICIA CARLSON AND MATTHEW C. MURRAY
PART 1: Theoretical considerations
1. Power, disability, and the academic production of knowledge
MATTHEW C. MURRAY
2. Depending on the undependable: Disability, fragility, and instability
ADAM CURETON
3. The universal view of disability and its danger to the civil rights model
DORON DORFMAN
4. On (not) deserving disadvantage: What kind of difference does “disability” make?
LESLIE FRANCIS
5. Being and deafness: Examining ontology and ethics within the dialectic of hearing-loss and deaf-gain and deafness-and-disability
MICHAEL E. SKYER
PART 2: Spaces, representations, and lived boundaries
6. Poems
JIM FERRIS
7. “We are all disabled”: Feathers, continuities, and a neglected musical argument?
STEFAN SUNANDAN HONISCH
8. Robinson Crusoe and Peter the Wild Boy: What Daniel Defoe inadvertently tells us about disability
D. CHRISTOPHER GABBARD
9. “We are all disabled”: The conundrum of problems and solutions
MADELEINE DEWELLES
10. Borderlands and neurodiversity: Aren´t we all humans?
SARA NEWMAN
11. We are all disabled, until we are not
TERESA BLANKMEYER BURKE
12. Thoughts on precarity, disablement, and risk during COVID-19
SANDY SUFIAN AND LICIA CARLSON
13. Toward disability justice in a pandemic world
MATTHEW C. MURRAY AND LICIA CARLSON
Biography
Licia Carlson is Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, USA. She is the author of a book on philosophy and intellectual disability and has co-edited volumes on disability and moral philosophy, and phenomenology and the arts. She has published numerous articles and chapters in the philosophy of disability, bioethics, philosophy of music, and feminist philosophy. Her current research interests include the ethics of genetic testing, and the intersection of philosophy, music, and disability.
Matthew C. Murray is the Senior Project Adviser for the Growthpolicy.org project at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, USA. Matthew is actively researching and publishing in the areas of critical theories of justice and their effects on the ideas of and applications of distributive and social justice.
