Signs of disability / Stephanie L. Kerschbaum
2022
HV1568 .K48 2022eb
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Title
Signs of disability / Stephanie L. Kerschbaum
ISBN
1479811173 (electronic bk.)
9781479811175 (electronic bk.)
9781479811144 (hardcover)
9781479811168 (paperback)
9781479811175 (electronic bk.)
9781479811144 (hardcover)
9781479811168 (paperback)
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
HV1568 .K48 2022eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1351195720
Summary
"This book centers on story as a means of making disability available for noticing. The framework of signs of disability forwarded in this book is drawn from the author's lived experience of disability and deafness as well as rhetoric, feminist materialist scholarship, and critical disability studies."-- Provided by publisher
How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped "deaf person in area" road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms "dis-attention."To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena--including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life. Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members' experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of "dis-attention" and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings
How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped "deaf person in area" road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms "dis-attention."To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena--including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life. Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members' experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of "dis-attention" and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Signs of Disability
Dis-Attending
Disclosing
Disabling
Circulating
Epilogue: Disorientations.
Dis-Attending
Disclosing
Disabling
Circulating
Epilogue: Disorientations.
Source of Description
Print version record.
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Print version: Kerschbaum, Stephanie L. Signs of Disability. New York : New York University Press, ©2022
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