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

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EditorialThe scientific book series Disability Studies: Body -Power -Difference examines disability as an historical, social and cultural construction; it deals with the interrelation between power and symbolic meanings. The series intends to open up new perspectives to disability, thus correcting and extending traditional approaches in medicine, special education and rehabilitation sciences. It views disability as a phenomenon of embodied difference. Fundamental cultural concepts of »putting things into order«, for instance normality and deviance, health and illness, physical integrity and subjective identity are thereby discussed from a critical point of view. The book series Disability Studies aims to contribute to the study of central themes of the Modern age: reason, human rights, equality, autonomy and solidarity in relation to social and cultural developments.The scientific book series Disability Studies: Body -Power -Difference is published by Professor Anne Waldschmidt (iDiS -International research unit in Disability Studies, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne), together with Professor Thomas Macho (Institute for Culture and Art Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin), Professor Werner Schneider (Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Augsburg), Professor Anja Tervooren (Department of Education, University of Duisburg-Essen) and Heike Zirden (Berlin).Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen (eds.) Culture -Theory -DisabilityEncounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies D I S A B I L I T Y S T U D I E SFunded with generous support by the UzK Forum Initiative, University of Cologne An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. The Open Access ISBN for this book is 978-3-8394-2533-6 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (BY-NC-ND). Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (BY-NC-ND).which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Notes on Contributors | 265Dedicated to Tobin Siebers AcknowledgmentsThe rewarding process of guiding this project to publication wo...

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“…In the 1970s, the social model of disability was introduced emphasizing that disability, unlike impairment, is, indeed, socially constructed. ‘It is not impairments per se which disable, but societal practices of “disablement” which result in disability’ (Waldschmidt et al, 2017, p. 21). The cultural model of disability (Devlieger, 2005; Snyder & Mitchell, 2006; Waldschmidt et al, 2017), while not negating the social and material influence on the impaired body, provided a more complete concept; considering how disability is defined, lived, and materialized informs how societal structures (including architecture) deal with bodily difference.…”

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