Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of
global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and
economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how
disability activists, artists and social movements generate change
and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of
austerity, or "crip times." Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers
how transnational queer disability theory and culture-activism,
blogs, art, photography, literature, and performance-provide
important and generative sites for both contesting austerity
politics and imagining alternatives. The book engages various
cultural flashpoints, including the spectacle surrounding the
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; the murder trial of South
African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius; the photography of Brazilian
artist Livia Radwanski which documents the gentrification of
Colonia Roma in Mexico City; the defiance of Chilean students
demanding a free and accessible education for all; the sculpture
and performance of UK artist Liz Crow; and the problematic rhetoric
of "aspiration" dependent upon both able-bodied and disabled
figurations that emerged in Thatcher's England. Crip Times asserts
that disabled people themselves are demanding that disability be
central to our understanding of political economy and uneven
development and suggests that, in some locations, their demand for
disability justice is starting to register. Ultimately, McRuer
argues that a politics of austerity will always generate the
compulsion to fortify borders and to separate a narrowly defined
"us" in need of protection from "them."
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