Theorising normalcy and the mundane: precarious positions

Abstract

The wide-ranging chapters from the Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane conferences explore the precarious positions ""normal"", and its operating system ""normalcy"" (Davis, 2010). Front cover; Half title page; Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane Editorial Board; Title Page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents page; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: The (Normal) Non-Normativity of Youth -- Jenny Slater; Chapter 2: Deconstructing the ""Normal"" Student. A Discourse Analysis of ""Prospective Student"" Materials Across Three Institutions -- Lucia Radcliffe; Chapter 3: Is This Inclusion? Teachers Resisting Normalcy Within the Classroom -- Sue Chantler Chapter 4: The ""Urge to Know"" Normal: Theorising How Impairment Labels Function -- Rebecca Mallett and Katherine Runswick-ColeChapter 5: Passing or Trespassing? Unseen Disability, Containment and the Politics of ""Feeling Like a Fraud"" in a Neoliberal Bureaucracy -- Harriet Cooper; Chapter: Armless Dreams or Carnal Practices?: Transableism and the Legitimisation of the Ideal Body -- Cassandra A. Ogden; Chapter 7: People of Substance: Disability, Problematic Drug Use and Normalcy -- Jess Bradley and Greta Williams-Schulz Chapter 8: The Cult of Health and Wholeness: Normalcy and the Charismatic Christian Healing Movement -- Naomi Lawson JacobsChapter 9: Relational Autonomy and Disability: Beyond Normative Constructs and Post-Structuralist Deconstructions -- Steve Graby and Anat Greenstein; Chapter 10: In Praise of Normal: Re-Reading Wolfensberger -- Kathy Boxall; Back cover