Contours of Ableism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Cogitating Ableism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Project of Ableism

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 3-15

   3. Internalised Ableism: The Tyranny Within

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 16-29

   4. Tentative Disability — Mitigation and Its Discontents

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 30-44

   5. Love Objects and Transhuman Beasts? Riding the Technologies

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 45-76

3. Spectres of Ableism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. The Deaf Trade: Selling the Cochlear Implant

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 79-96

   3. Print Media Representations of the ‘Uncooperative’ Disabled Patient: The Case of Clint Hallam

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 97-114

   4. Disability Matters: Embodiment, Teaching and Standpoint

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 115-129

   5. Pathological Femaleness: Disability Jurisprudence and Ontological Envelopment

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 130-145

   6. Disability Harm and Wrongful Life Torts

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 146-159

   7. Searching for Subjectivity: The Enigma of Devoteeism, Conjoinment and Transableism

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 160-195

4. Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism

   1. Afterword: From Disability Studies to Studies in Ableism

      • Fiona Kumari Campbell

      Pages 196-198

5. Back Matter

   Pages 199-231

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Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study theoretically reinvigorates disability studies by reconceptualising it as 'studies of ableism' focusing on the practices and formations of able-bodiedness to uncover what it means to be 'able' rather than 'disabled'.

• disability
• Embodiment
• media
• production
• teaching

• Griffith University, Australia

  Fiona Kumari Campbell

FIONA KUMARI CAMPBELL is Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, School of Human Services& Social Work, Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and a person with disability. She writes on issues related to disability philosophy, desire, law and technology, and her current research encompasses South Asian approaches to disability.

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