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Contours of Ableism

The Production of Disability and Abledness

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Fiona Kumari Campbell

    1. Griffith University, Australia

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Cogitating Ableism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Project of Ableism

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell
      Pages 3-15

    3. Internalised Ableism: The Tyranny Within

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell
      Pages 16-29

    4. Tentative Disability — Mitigation and Its Discontents

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell
      Pages 30-44

    5. Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts? Riding the Technologies

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell
      Pages 45-76

  4. Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism

    1. Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell
      Pages 196-198

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 199-231
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Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.

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  • Griffith University, Australia

    Fiona Kumari Campbell

About the author

FIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL is Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, School of Human Services& Social Work, Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and a person with disability. She writes on issues related to disability philosophy, desire, law and technology, and her current research encompasses South Asian approaches to disability.

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