A01=Jennifer Scuro
A02=Devonya N. Havis
A02=Lydia X. Z. Brown
ablebodied
alienation
allyship
Arendt
Author_Devonya N. Havis
Author_Jennifer Scuro
Author_Lydia X. Z. Brown
autism
bias
bioethics
bullying
caretaker
Category=QDTQ
dehumanizing
diagnoses
disability studies
dismembering
disorder
enmembering
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
feminist philosophy
intersectionality
interstitiality
Judith Butler
justice
Levinas
neurodiversity
oppression
phenomenology
Plato
precarity
prosthesis
Shelley Tremain
social theory
somatophobia
special education
value judgments
Product details
- ISBN 9781498540766
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 151 x 221mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Addressing Ableism is a set of philosophical meditations outlining the scale and scope of ableism. By explicating concepts like experience, diagnosis, precariousness, and prosthesis, Scuro maps out the institutionalized and intergenerational forms of this bias as it is analogous and yet also distinct from other kinds of dehumanization, discrimination, and oppression. This project also includes a dialogical chapter on intersectionality with Devonya Havis and Lydia Brown, a philosopher and writer/activist respectively. Utilizing theorists like Judith Butler, Tobin Siebers, Emmanuel Levinas, and Hannah Arendt to address ableism, Scuro thoroughly critiques the neoliberal culture and politics that underwrites ableist affections and phobias. This project exposes the many material and non-material harms of ableism, and it offers multiple avenues to better confront and resist ableism in its many forms. Scuro provides crucial insights into the many uninhabitable and unsustainable effects of ableism and how we might revise our intentions and desires for the sake of a less ableist world.
Jennifer Scuro is associate professor at The College of New Rochelle.
