Culture – Theory – Disability : Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Which theoretical approaches of contemporary cultural criticism can Disability Studies employ? At the same time, what can Cultural Studies gain by incorporating disability more fully as a framework for critical analysis? This international collection of essays enriches the thriving discourse of Cultural Disability Studies by offering stimulating dialogues between British, Czech, German and US-American scholars. In order to contour the various 'contact zones' between the two fields, the volume works transdisciplinarily, drawing on fields such as sociology, literary studies, art history and philosophy. Disability Goes Cultural: The Cultural Model of Disability as an Analytical Tool -- The Sounds of Disability: A Cultural Studies Perspective -- The Ghettoization of Disability: Paradoxes of Visibility and Invisibility in Cinema -- Building a World with Disability in It -- No Future for Crips: Disorderly Conduct in the New World Order; or, Disability Studies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- Dis/entangling Critical Disability Studies -- Responses to Dan Goodley -- Disability, Pain, and the Politics of Minority Identity -- Responses to Tobin Siebers -- Border Crossings: The Technologies of Disability and Desire -- Responses to Margrit Shildrick -- Superhumans-Parahumans: Disability and Hightech in Competitive Sports -- Responses to Karin Harrasser -- Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh -- Responses to Ria Cheyne -- The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip: On the Cruel Optimism of Neoliberal Transformations in the Czech Republic -- Responses to Kateřina Kolářová.