Disability Worlds

Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp's Disability Worlds explores two decades of immersion in New York City's disability worlds, highlighting dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of "special education," and the perils of transitioning from high school. It also highlights the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public culture.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2024
Publisher: Duke University Press

Disability Worlds is a groundbreaking book that chronicles and theorizes two decades of immersion in New York City's wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. The authors 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 emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions, and the 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.

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. Disability Worlds is a groundbreaking book that challenges our understanding of disability and offers a path forward for a more inclusive and equitable society.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478030409