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Foucault and the Government of Disability
2015, Enlarged and Revised Edition Shelley Tremain, Editor"[A]n important, prescient, and necessary contribution...a kind of litmus test for the efficacy of Foucault's concepts in the study of disability, concepts that lead to a refusal of the biological essentialism implied in the disability/impairment binary."
—Foucault Studies
"Tremain has done an exceptional job at organizing and procuring important, rigorously argued, and entertaining essays.... This book should be a mandatory read for anyone interested in contemporary philosophical debates surrounding the experience of disability."
—Essays in Philosophy
"A beautiful exploration of how Foucault's analytics of power and genealogies of discursive knowledges can open up new avenues for thinking critically about phenomena that many of us take to be inevitable and thus new ways of resisting and possibly at times redirecting the forces that shape our lives. Every scholar, every person with an interest in Foucault or in political theory generally, needs to read this book."
—Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond
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Contents
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Foucault, Governmentality, and Critical Disability Theory Today: A Genealogy of the Archive
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I Epistemologies and Ontologies
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Subjected Bodies: Paraplegia, Rehabilitation, and the Politics of Movement
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Signs of Reason: Rivière, Facilitated Communication, and the Crisis of the Subject
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Truth, Power, and Ethics in Care Services for People with Learning Difficulties
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What Can a Foucauldian Analysis Contribute to Disability Theory?
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Foucault’s Nominalism
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Legislating Disability: Negative Ontologies and the Government of Legal Identities
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II Histories
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Docile Bodies, Docile Minds: Foucauldian Reflections on Mental Retardation
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Uncommon Schools: Institutionalizing Deafness in Early-Nineteenth-Century America
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The Phénomène’s Dilemma: Teratology and the Policing of Human Anomalies in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Paris
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III Governmentalities
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Who is Normal? Who is Deviant? “Normality” and “Risk” in Genetic Diagnostics and Counseling
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Inclusive Education for Exclusive Pupils: A Critical Analysis of the Government of the Exceptional
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Supported Living and the Production of Individuals
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Real and Ideal Spaces of Disability in American Stadiums and Arenas
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Foucault on the Phone: Disability and the Mobility of Government
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IV Ethics and Politics
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Inclusion as an Ethical Project
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Gender Police
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V Disability and Governmentality in the Present
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From Inhalation to Inspiration: A Genealogical Auto-ethnography of a Supercrip
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“Life Worth Defending”: Biopolitical Frames of Terror in the War on Autism
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Expressions of “Lives Worth Living” and Their Foreclosure through Philosophical Theorizing on Moral Status and Intellectual Disability
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Death by Choice, Life by Privilege: Biopolitical Circuits of Vitality and Debility in the Times of Empire
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Contributors
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Index
- 978-0-472-12127-4 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-03638-7 (paper)