Disability and Social Theory

THEO BLACKMORE Strategic Liaison Manager for Disability Cornwall, UKROSI BRAIDOTTI Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, The NetherlandsFIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL Associate Professor & Deputy Head of Griffith Law School, AustraliaTSITSI CHATAIKA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University, South AfricaCAROLYN FROHMADER is the Executive Director of Women With Disabilities Australia, AustraliaANITA GHAI Associate Professor, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, IndiaSHAUN GRECH Research Associate at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change (RIHSC), Manchester Metropolitan University, UKMARK HAYDON-LAURELUT Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, UKREBECCA LAWTHOM Associate Professor in Community Practice at Manchester Metropolitan University, UKSTEPHEN LEE HODGKINS Director of Disability LIB, UKREBECCA MALLETT Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UKEIMIR MCGRATH is a Researcher at London Metropolitan University, UKHELEN MEEKOSHKA Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, University of South Wales, AustraliaKARL NUNKOOSING Principal Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UKJAMES OVERBOE Associate Professor in Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaDONNA REEVE Honorary Research Fellow with the Centre for Disability Research (CeDR) and Applied Social Science at Lancaster University, UKGRIET ROETS Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Welfare Studies, Ghent University, BelgiumKATHERINE RUNSWICK-COLE Research Fellow in Disability Studies and Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Recommended by Choice '...this collection...should be on the bedside tables of those committed to working in partnership with disabled people.' - Hannah Morgan, Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University, British Journal of Social Work

• Notes on Contributors Introducing Disability and Social Theory; D.Goodley , B.Hughes & L.Davis PART I: CULTURES Civilizing Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled People; B.Hughes Commodifying Autism: The Cultural Contexts of 'Disability' in the Academy; R.Mallett & K.Runswick-Cole Disability and the Majority World: A Neo-Colonial Approach; S.Grech Discourses of Disabled Peoples Organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu and Future Perspectives; T.Blackmore & S.Hodgkins PART II: BODIES Cyborgs, Cripples and iCrip: Reflections on the Contribution of Haraway to Disability Studies; D.Reeve Theory, Impairment, and Impersonal Singularities: Deleuze, Guattari and Agamben; J.Overboe The Body as the Problem of Individuality: A Phenomenological Disability Studies Approach; T.Titchkosky & R.Michalko Dancing with Disability: An Intersubjective Approach; E.McGrath PART III: SUBJECTIVITIES Nomadology and Subjectivity: Deleuze, Guattari and Critical Disability Studies; G.Roets & R.Braidotti Jacques Lacan + Paul Hunt = Psychoanalytic Disability Studies; D.Goodley Intellectual Disability Trouble: Foucault and Goffman on 'Challenging Behaviour'; K.Nunkoosing & M.Laurelut Stalking Ableism: Using Disability to Expose 'Abled' Narcissism; F.Campbell PART IV: COMMUNITIES Lave and Wenger, Communities of Practice and Disability; R.Lawthom Disability, Development and Postcolonialism; T.Chataika Engaging Disability with Postcolonial Theory; A.Ghai Recognition, Respect and Rights: Women with Disabilities in a Globalised World; C.Frohmader & H.Meekosha Conclusions; B.Hughes , D.Goodley & L.Davis Glossary