Normality and Disability - Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture (Hardcover)

Hotly contested, normality remains a powerful, complex category in contemporary law and culture. What is little realized are the ways in which disability underpins and shapes the operation of norms and the power dynamics of normalization. This pioneering collection explores the place of law in political, social, scientific and biomedical developments relating to disability and other categories of 'abnormality'. The contributors show how law produces cultural meanings, norms, representations, artefacts and expressions of disability, abnormality and normality, as well as how law responds to and is constituted by cultures of disability. The collection traverses a range of contemporary legal and political issues including human rights, mercy killing, reproductive technologies, hate crime, policing, immigration and disability housing. It also explores the impact and ongoing legacies of historical practices such as eugenics and deinstitutionalization. Of interest to a wide range of scholars working on normality and law, the book also creates an opening for critical scholars and activists engaged with other marginalized and denigrated categories, notably contesting institutional violence in the context of settler colonialism, neoliberalism and imperialism, to engage more richly and politically with disability. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Continuum journal.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2017
First published:	2018
Editors:	Gerard Goggin • Linda Steele • Jessica Robyn Cadwallader
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-30248-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International human rights law
LSN:	1-138-30248-1
Barcode:	9781138302488

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