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Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture - Theory - Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum. This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy. It includes essays by Lennard J. Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer and Margrit Shildrick. »Viele gelungene und in Erinnerung bleibende Beiträge.« Herbert Schwaab, MEDIENwissenschaft, 2-3 (2018) Besprochen in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 10 (2017), Pamela L. Dale

Disability studies. --- Culture --- Disability: social aspects --- Cultural studies --- People with disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Education --- Study and teaching. --- Study and teaching --- Curricula --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Disability Studies. --- Cultural Studies; Disability Studies; Media; Literature; Body Theory; Body; Culture; Disability Studies; Cultural Theory --- Sociology --- Body --- Disability Studies --- Cultural Studies --- Cultural Theory --- Prosthesis

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Memoirs about being sick are popular and everywhere and only ever contribute to pop narratives of illness as a single event or heroic struggle or journey. Visceral: Essays on Illness as Metaphor is not that. Visceral, to the extent that it is a memoir, is a record not of illness but of the research project being sick became. While rooted firmly in critical disability and queer practices, the use of personal narratives opens these approaches up to new ways of writing the body—ultimately a body that is at once theoretical and unavoidably physical. A body where everything is visceral, so theory must be too. From the gothic networks of healthcare bureaucracy and hospital philanthropy to the proliferation of wellness media, off-label usage of drugs, and running off to live a life with, these essays move fluidly through theoretical and physical anger, curiosity and surprise. Arguing for disability rights that attend to the theoretical as much as the physical, this is Illness Not As Metaphor, Being Sick and Time, and The Body in Actual Pain as one. A sick body of text that is—and is not—in direct correspondence to an actual sick body, Visceral is an unrelenting examination of chronic illness that turns towards the theoretical only to find itself in the realms of the biological and autobiographical: because how much theory can a body take?

Illness & addiction: social aspects --- Illness --- Human beings --- Illnesses --- Morbidity --- Sickness --- Sicknesses --- Medicine --- Epidemiology --- Health --- Pathology --- Sick --- Diseases --- illness --- psychosomatics --- medical humanities --- wellness studies --- disability studies

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Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability to categorize and examine these foci further. Applying philosophy as well as "hard sciences" (i.e. mathematics, medicine, physics) to disability studies, her study of selected works by Siri Hustvedt, Thom Jones, Reif Larsen, Dennis Mahagin, Audrey Niffenegger, Rodman Philbrick, and Lauren Slater shows how epilepsy metaphors redefine the notion of the "liminal" and the "normal".

American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- American Literature; Conceptual Metaphors; Metastability; Normativity; Siri Hustvedt; Literature; Body; Medicine; American Studies; Disability Studies; Literary Studies --- American Studies. --- Body. --- Conceptual Metaphors. --- Disability Studies. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Medicine. --- Metastability. --- Normativity. --- Siri Hustvedt.

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Geschlecht, Ethnizität, Behinderung - tradierte Kategorisierungen wie diese werden nicht nur gesellschaftlich intensiv diskutiert. Auch in Theorie und Praxis der Darstellenden Künste sind sie ein aktuelles Thema. Der breit angelegte Band geht dem Verhältnis von sozialer Differenzierung und ästhetischer Praxis vor dem Hintergrund der jeweiligen Produktions- und Rezeptionsbedingungen nach. So eröffnen sich vergleichende Perspektiven auf gegenwärtige und historische Phänomene des institutionellen Theaters, der freien Szene und der Performance-Kunst. Zugleich geben die Beiträge einen Überblick über aktuelle Forschungstendenzen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Differenz-, Kultur- und Theaterwissenschaft. »Der Band [stellt] für zahlreiche (theater)pädagogische Themen [...] theaterwissenschaftliche Analysen zur Verfügung, die nochmal einen ganz anderen Blick auf pädagogisch eigentlich (alt)bekannte Themen [werfen], womit eine Tür für inter- und transdisziplinäre Forschung geöffnet wird.« Pierre-Carl Link, Zeitschrift für Theaterpädagogik, 10 (2018)

Theater; Institution; Performance; Gender; Ethnizität; Behinderung; Darstellende Künste; Soziale Differenzierung; Ästhetische Praxis; Produktionsbedingungen; Rezeptionsbedingungen; Tanz; Körper; Theaterwissenschaft; Theatre; Ethnicity; Disability Studies; Performing Arts; Social Differentiation; Aesthetic Practice; Conditions of Production; Conditions of Reception; Dance; Body; Theatre Studies --- Aesthetic Practice. --- Body. --- Conditions of Production. --- Conditions of Reception. --- Dance. --- Disability Studies. --- Ethnicity. --- Gender. --- Institution. --- Performance. --- Performing Arts. --- Social Differentiation. --- Theatre Studies.

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Disability studies. --- Medical sciences. --- Sociology of disability. --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- People with disabilities --- Basic medical sciences --- Basic sciences, Medical --- Biomedical sciences --- Health sciences --- Preclinical sciences --- Sciences, Medical --- Life sciences --- Medicine --- Sociology of disability --- Education --- Sociological aspects --- Study and teaching --- Curricula