Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide

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Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this book the three areas become united in a new field that recognises education as a discourse between tutors and students who explore representations of disability on the levels of everything from academic disciplines and knowledge to language and theory; from received understandings and social attitudes to narrative and characterisation. Moving from late nineteenth to early twenty-first-century representations, this book combines disability studies with aesthetics, film studies, Holocaust studies, gender studies, happiness studies, popular music studies, humour studies, and media studies. In so doing it encourages discussion around representations of disability in drama, novels, films, autobiography, short stories, music videos, sitcoms, and advertising campaigns. Discussions are underpinned by the tripartite model of disability and so disrupt one-dimensional representations. Cultural Disability Studies in Education encourages educators and students to engage with disability as an isolating, hurtful, and joyful experience that merits multiple levels of representation and offers true potential for a non-normative social aesthetic. It will be required reading for all scholars and students of disability studies, cultural disability studies, Disability Studies in Education, sociology, and cultural studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Cultural disability studies in education: Fields, representations, and social aesthetics Introduction: Social sciences, humanities, and education The tripartite model of disability: A critical framework Navigations of the normative divide: Social aesthetics and cultural representations Conclusion: Cultural Disability Studies in Education 1. Visions from the yellow decade: Disability, aesthetics, and residual existence Preliminary discussion: Disability studies and aesthetics Divided and divided again: The imaginary of doom and gloom Shambolic but symbolic: Revolutionary misrepresentation Not so novel: The resonance of pre-surrealism and realism Concluding discussion: Ocularnormative aesthetics Indicative questions 2. From sideshow to cinema: Disability, film, and horrification Preliminary discussion: Disability studies and film studies Narrative with a vengeance: One of us Nightmare scenario: From children to monsters Behind the monster: Unexpected praise Concluding discussion: Horrification and society Indicative questions 3. Remembering the drowned and the saved: Disability, Holocaust, and the inadequacies of representation Preliminary discussion: Disability studies and Holocaust studies Realities of representation: Classic and critical approaches Learning from Levi: Humanity, criticality, and dignity Keeping the lessons alive: The necessity of multiplicity Concluding discussion: Supplementing the moral imperative Indicative questions 4. In the log house: Disability, gender, and resistance to social norms Preliminary discussion: Disability studies and gender studies Identity politics: Gender, disability, and juxtapositions Unhappy accident: Left bereft Man and boy: From trivialisation to infantilisation Concluding discussion: Her and him Indicative questions 5. Stuff happens: Disability, happiness, and the pursuit of cure Preliminary discussion: Disability studies and happiness studies The shock of happiness: Blindness is bliss It might never happen: From contentment to uncertainty As it happens: Life writing Concluding discussion: Happiness-cure synonymy Indicative questions 6. End of the rock star: Disability, music, and the passage of time Preliminary discussion: Disability studies and popular music studies Rock star persona: Now and then Revolutionary representation: From normative to non-normative positivisms Concluding discussion: The heroes and casualties of tragic representation Indicative questions 7. One of the crowd: Disability, humour, and the contradictions of comedy Preliminary discussion: Disability studies and humour studies How everyone talks: Disabling language Here today: Disabling narrative Concluding discussion: Latent disability humour Indicative questions 8. On the campaign trail: Disability, mass media, and levels of representation Preliminary discussion: Disability studies and media studies Real beauty and real blindness: Wonderful representation The sighted face of blindness: Fearful and pitiful representation Dramatics and problematics: Nothing more than need Concluding discussion: The need for multifaceted representation Indicative questions Epilogue Glossary of terms Index