{"product_id":"the-biopolitics-of-disability-david-t-mitchell-9780472052714","title":"The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment","description":"In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. \u003ci\u003eThe Biopolitics of Disability\u003c\/i\u003e terms this phenomenon \"ablenationalism\" and asserts that \"inclusion\" becomes meaningful only if disability is recognized as providing modes of living that are alternatives to governing norms of productivity and independence. Thus, the book pushes beyond questions of impairment to explore how disability subjectivities create new forms of embodied knowledge and collective consciousness. The focus is on the emergence of new crip\/queer subjectivities at work in disability arts, disability studies pedagogy, independent and mainstream disability cinema (e.g., \u003ci\u003eMidnight Cowboy\u003c\/i\u003e), internet-based medical user groups, anti-normative novels of embodiment (e.g., Richard Powers's \u003ci\u003eThe Echo-Maker\u003c\/i\u003e) and, finally, the labor of living in \"non-productive\" bodies within late capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David T. Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472052713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472052714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2016","brand":"David T. Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946675208447,"sku":"9780472052714","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_261121bf-893d-4f64-aebd-68e8a53f1d5a.jpg?v=1681514493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-biopolitics-of-disability-david-t-mitchell-9780472052714","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}