Disabling Relations
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Acid Attacks
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Author_Sona Kazemi
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Critical Disability Studies
critical prison studies
Disability studies
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ethnic studies
gender & sexuality studies
interdisciplinary studies
international relations
Iran
Iranian Studies
Kurdish Studies
Kurds
mad studies
medical humanities
medical sociology
Middle Eastern Studies
Political Imprisonment
political science
Punitive Amputation
Saudi Arabia
social movements studies
State Violence
Transnational Disability Theory
war and peace studies
women's
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- ISBN 9781439922491
- Weight: 341g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How do we learn to defetishize disability in our everyday lives? In Disabling Relations, Sona Kazemi probes this and other questions that consider how processes and relations of patriarchy, imperialism, and religious fundamentalism, as well as class and ideology, rework the dialectics of disability in transnational contexts.
Kazemi focuses on the disabled dissidents who were incarcerated and tortured by the Islamic regime in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution in Iran, the disabled veterans and civilians wounded during and after the Iran–Iraq War, the disabled survivors of state-sanctioned punitive limb amputation, and the disabled women survivors of acid attacks as a form of gender-based violence. Disabling Relations explains how disabled bodyminds are produced and sustained through the violence of patriarchal, capitalist-imperialist, nationalist, and theocratic social relations. Kazemi uses the theoretical concept of “wounding” as a historical process of becoming and remaining disabled mediated by unequal power relations and “disability consciousness” to show how these survivors come to terms with their disability.
Thinking about critical disability theory in a new way, Kazemi investigates how disability is produced transnationally and the impact that this new theorization can make globally.
In the series Dis/color
Kazemi focuses on the disabled dissidents who were incarcerated and tortured by the Islamic regime in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution in Iran, the disabled veterans and civilians wounded during and after the Iran–Iraq War, the disabled survivors of state-sanctioned punitive limb amputation, and the disabled women survivors of acid attacks as a form of gender-based violence. Disabling Relations explains how disabled bodyminds are produced and sustained through the violence of patriarchal, capitalist-imperialist, nationalist, and theocratic social relations. Kazemi uses the theoretical concept of “wounding” as a historical process of becoming and remaining disabled mediated by unequal power relations and “disability consciousness” to show how these survivors come to terms with their disability.
Thinking about critical disability theory in a new way, Kazemi investigates how disability is produced transnationally and the impact that this new theorization can make globally.
In the series Dis/color
Sona Kazemi is Assistant Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She is the Society for Disability Studies’ 2018 recipient of the honorable mention for the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies, and Associate Editor for the Global Ideas’ Section of Review of Disability Studies, An International Journal.
