Normality and Disability: Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367891506 ISBN 13: 9780367891503

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

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This collection explores the place of law in political, social, and biomedical developments relating to disability and other categories of 'abnormality'. It shows how law produces cultural meanings, and expressions of disability, and how law is constituted by cultures of disability. It was published as a special issue of the Continuum jou

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Gerard Goggin is Professor of Media and Communications and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on the social and cultural dynamics of disability, including Disability in Australia (2005) and Digital Disability (2003) (both with Christopher Newell), Disability and the Media (2015, with Katie Ellis), Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2018, with Katie Ellis and Beth Haller) and Listening to Disability: Voices of Democracy (2018, with Cate Thill and Rosemary Kayess).

Linda Steele is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her research explores the intersections of disability, law and injustice. She has published in journals across law, criminology and gender & cultural studies.

Jessica Robyn Cadwallader is an independent scholar with an abiding interest in corporeal differences and its significance in contemporary culture, especially medical and legal cultures. Her doctoral thesis focused on experiences of suffering and how these are bound up with medical 'solutions' of normalization, while her postdoctoral project explored therapeutic forgetting, a response to trauma. Her work has been published in numerous international journals, including Social Semiotics, Australian Feminist Studies, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Somatechnics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367891506
• ISBN 13: 9780367891503
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
• Herausgeber: Goggin Gerard, Steele Linda, Cadwallader Jessica Robyn
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