[Linganth] Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp on Disability Worlds

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the CaMP anthropology blog, Bridget Bradley has a wide-ranging
conversation with Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp about their new book,
Disability Worlds.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In *Disability Worlds*, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle
and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging
disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability
studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the
experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in
larger struggles for recognition and rights. Disability consciousness, they
show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions. Chapters
consider dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research,
reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of “special education,”
and the perils of transitioning from high school. They also highlight the
vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public
culture. *Disability Worlds* reflects the authors’ anthropological
commitments to recognizing the significance of this fundamental form of
human difference. Ginsburg and Rapp’s conversations with diverse New
Yorkers reveal the bureaucratic constraints and paradoxes established in
response to the disability rights movement, as well as the remarkable
creativity of disabled people and their allies who are opening pathways
into both disability justice and disability futures.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/linganth/attachments/20241216/6684f73d/attachment.htm>