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Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order book cover

1st Edition

Metanarratives of Disability Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order

Edited By David Bolt Copyright 2021
258 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives. The book comprises 15 chapters developed across three parts and, informed by disability studies, is authored by those with research interests in the condition on which they focus as well as direct or intimate... Read more

Prologue

Part I: International Developments of the Foundational Concept

  1. The Metanarrative of Blindness in North America: Meaning, Feeling, and Feel
    Devon Healey and Rod Michalko

  2. The Metanarrative of Blindness in the Global South: A LatDisCrit Counterstory to the Bittersweet Mythology of Blindness as Giftedness
    Alexis Padilla

  3. The Metanarrative of Blindness in India: Special Education and Assumed Knowledge Cultures
    Hemachandran Karah

    4. Part II: Beyond Normative Minds and Bodies

  4. The Metanarrative of Mental Illness: A Collaborative Autoethnography
    Katharine Martyn and Annette Thompson

  5. The Metanarrative of OCD: Deconstructing Positive Stereotypes in Media and Popular Nomenclature
    Angela J. Kim

  6. The Metanarrative of Learning Disability: Vulnerability, Unworthiness, and Requiring Control
    Owen Barden and Steven J. Walden

  7. The Metanarrative of Autism: Eternal Childhood and the Failure of Cure
    Sonya Freeman Loftis

  8. The Metanarrative of Down Syndrome: Proximity to Animality
    Helen Davies

  9. The Metanarrative of Dwarfism: Heightism and its Social Implications
    Erin Pritchard

    10. Part III: Chronic Conditions and the Emergence of Disability

  10. The Metanarrative of Chronic Pain: Culpable, Duplicitous, and Miserable
    Danielle Kohfeldt and Gregory Mather

  11. The Metanarrative of Diabetes: Should You Be Eating That?
    Heather R. Walker and Bianca C. Frazer

  12. The Metanarrative of Cancer: Disrupting the Battle Myth
    Nicola Martin

  13. The Metanarrative of HIV and AIDS: Losing Track of an Epidemic
    Brenda Tyrrell

  14. The Metanarrative of Sarcoidosis: Life in Liminality
    Dana Combs Leigh

  15. The Metanarrative of Arthritis: Playing and Betraying the Endgame
    David Bolt

Epilogue

Index

　

Biography

David Bolt is Professor of Disability Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom.

This collection of essays raises as many questions as it answers, but in challenging a range of metanarratives it offers new perspectives to scholars working across a range of fields in disability studies, medical humanities, cultural studies, and health.

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