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Margo
New book series DISABILITY STUDIES: BODY - POWER - DIFFERENCE
The scientific book series Disability Studies: Body - power - difference
examines disability as a historical, social and cultural construction; it is
concerned with the interrelation between the balance of power and symbolic
meanings. The series intends to open new perspectives, including medical,
educational and rehabilitational, to correct and extend the concept of
disability. It develops from the phenomenon of embodied difference.
Fundamental order concepts, like normality and deviation, health and
illness, physical soundness and subjective identity manifest themselves, and
are thereby reflected critically.
In the horizon of social developments the book series Disability Studies
hopes to contribute to the study of central themes of the Modern trend:
reason, equality, autonomy and solidarity.
The scientific book series Disability Studies: Body - Power - Difference was
undertaken for Aktion Mensch by Anne Waldschmidt (International Disability
Studies Research Centre, Human Sciences Faculty, University of Cologne),
together with Thomas Macho (Institute for Culture and Art Sciences, Humboldt
University Berlin), Werner Schneider (PhilosophY and Sociology Faculty,
University of Augsburg) and Heike Zirden (Aktion Mensch, Bonn).
VOLUME 1:
Anne Waldschmidt, Werner cutter
Disability Studies, culture, sociology, and sociology of disability:
investigations in a new research field
Bielefeld: May 2007, 348 sides, 29.80 euro
ISBN: 978-3-89942-486-07
For the first time in the German-speaking countries, a meeting of
sociological culture and the sociology of disability takes place in this
interdisciplinary anthology. In this country disability is still dominated
by the rehabilitation-scientific aspects. On the other hand Disability
Studies originating from the USA and Great Britain make it possible to
understand disability as a social and cultural category which sociological
key terms such as knowledge, body, power, social inequality, interaction and
biography can help us discover. With the connection to Disability Studies
the collection of texts introduces a fundamental change of perspective on
phenomena of embodied difference.
Anne Waldschmidt is Professor of sociology in higher education, social
politics and social management at the University of
Cologne. Her main research interests are: Biopolitics, reproductive
technologies, normality and deviation, social and barrier politics,
Disability Studies, discourse theory/discourse analysis
Werner Schneider is professor of sociology at the University of Augsburg.
His main research interests are: Knowledge and culture, sociology
(especially. Medicine, technology, embodiment, dying and death), sociology
of the family, sociology of the lifecourse, discourse theory and analysis
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VOLUME 2:
Markus Dederich
Bodies, culture and handicap: an introduction to Disability Studies
Bielefeld: May 2007, 208 pages, 20.80 euro
ISBN: 978-3-89942-641-0
This book is the first German-language introduction to Disability Studies
from a cultural-scientific (social scientific??) perspective. It illuminates
the processes of production, representation and transformation of the
“extraordinary body” in the historically and culturally conditioned
framework of interpretation, forms of knowledge and institutionalized
practices. It builds on interdisciplinary investigations into a fastidious
and exciting theory and discussion, and illustrates its theses among other
things by medicine-historical and literature-scientific examples.
Markus Dederich is Professor of Theory of Rehabilitation and Disability
Education in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of
Dortmund. His main research interests are: (Bio) ethical questions in the
context of disability, problems of inclusion and exclusion, Disability
Studies.
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