04/07/2024
Rayna Rapp and I are really thrilled to have Disability Worlds out in the world at last, and grateful to have this beautiful photo of Sam on the cover. Wow!
The book chronicles and theorizes two decades of ethnographic research in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds that we traversed as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. We tell the stories of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists engaged in larger struggles for disability rights and justice. We show how disability consciousness emerges in everyday politics and practices, track the dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, the reimagining of kinship and community, the challenges of “special education” and the perils of falling off the disability cliff...along with the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, and public culture that are opening pathways into disability futures.
[Duke University Press. Discount code: E24GNSBG]