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Crip
Times
Disability, Globalization, and Resistance
Robert McRuer
"A brilliant, ambitious, and wide-ranging book, Crip Times reveals the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity politics. McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling theoretical architectures with
which to move forward."--Jack Halberstam, author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
"Crip Times demonstrates the hallmarks of Robert McRuer’s scholarship, highlighting his formidable skills as a writer and theorist. We’ve needed a text like Crip Times to unpack the cultural logics of neoliberalism
as it attends to disability and austerity, and McRuer does so with an approach that transcends disciplines and national contexts."--Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip
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.”
Robert McRuer is Professor of English at George Washington University. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature
and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities (both also available from NYU Press). With Anna Mollow, he co-edited the anthology Sex and Disability.
New York University Press | Crip | January 2018 | 320pp | 9781479874156 | PB | £23.99*
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