Dispatches from Disabled Country (The Disability Culture and Politics) - Softcover

Frazee, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774868686 ISBN 13: 9780774868686

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A reimagining of what it means to be disabled from Canadian disability rights advocate Catherine Frazee.

“Disability is not our worst-case scenario—our worst-case scenario would be its annihilation.” This is the starting point for this powerful collection of writing by and about Catherine Frazee, disability activist, Officer of the Order of Canada, and poetic scholar of justice. For Frazee, disability is not something to be dreaded or overcome but a force to be reckoned with—a prism of insight and experience that refracts new light upon our fundamental ideals of justice, beauty, and community.

Frazee has been a central figure in the disability rights landscape in Canada for decades. Her reasoned and passionate insights are topical and often ahead of their time. Always bold, always progressive, and frequently provocative, her work presents an unwavering, fierce commitment to engage in public debate from a position that centers the lives of disabled people.

Taken together, these writings chronicle the rising consciousness of a social movement of disabled people staking their claim in public policy and popular culture, a claim that is overdue for honest recognition.
 

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Catherine Frazee is a professor emerita at Toronto Metropolitan University, where, prior to her retirement in 2010, she served as a professor of distinction and co-director of the RBC-Ryerson Institute for Disability Studies Research & Education. She also acted as the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1992. Christine Kelly is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Michael Orsini is a full professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.

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• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774868686
• ISBN 13: 9780774868686
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
• Herausgeber: Kelly Christine, Orsini Michael
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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