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      Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order

      Metanarratives of Disability

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      Metanarratives of Disability book

      Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order
      ByDavid Bolt
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      eBook Published 27 May 2021
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003057437
      Pages 258
      eBook ISBN 9781003057437
      Subjects Health and Social Care, Social Sciences
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      Bolt, D. (2021). Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003057437

      ABSTRACT

      This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives.

      The book comprises 15 chapters developed across three parts and, informed by disability studies, is authored by those with research interests in the condition on which they focus as well as direct or intimate experiential knowledge. When out and about, many disabled people know only too well what it is to be erroneously told the error of our/their ways by non-disabled passers-by, assumed authority often cloaked in helpfulness. Showing that assumed authority is underpinned by a displacement of personal narratives in favour of overarching metanarratives of disability that find currency in a diverse multiplicity of cultural representations – ranging from literature to film, television, advertising, social media, comics, art, and music – this work discusses how this relates to a range of disabilities and chronic conditions, including blindness, autism, Down syndrome, diabetes, cancer, and HIV and AIDS.

      Metanarratives of Disability will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, medical sociology, medical humanities, education studies, cultural studies, and health.

      'offers a well-structured, accessible collection of disability narratives that foreground disabled voices' Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 16.1 (2022)

       

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part Part I|44 pages

      International developments of the foundational concept

      chapter 1|13 pages

      The metanarrative of blindness in North America

      Meaning, feeling, and feel
      ByDevon Healey, Rod Michalko

      chapter 2|14 pages

      The metanarrative of blindness in the global south

      A LatDisCrit counterstory to the bittersweet mythology of blindness as giftedness
      ByAlexis Padilla

      chapter 3|15 pages

      The metanarrative of blindness in India

      Special education and assumed knowledge cultures
      ByHemachandran Karah

      part Part II|94 pages

      Beyond normative minds and bodies

      chapter 4|14 pages

      The metanarrative of mental illness

      A collaborative autoethnography
      ByKatharine Martyn, Annette Thompson

      chapter 5|16 pages

      The metanarrative of OCD

      Deconstructing positive stereotypes in media and popular nomenclature
      ByAngela J. Kim

      chapter 6|17 pages

      The metanarrative of learning disability

      Vulnerability, unworthiness, and requiring control
      ByOwen Barden, Steven J. Walden

      chapter 7|12 pages

      The metanarrative of autism

      Eternal childhood and the failure of cure
      BySonya Freeman Loftis

      chapter 8|17 pages

      The metanarrative of Down syndrome

      Proximity to animality
      ByHelen Davies

      chapter 9|16 pages

      The Metanarrative of Dwarfism

      Heightism and Its Social Implications
      ByErin Pritchard

      part Part III|93 pages

      Chronic Conditions and the Emergence of Disability

      chapter 10|15 pages

      The metanarrative of chronic pain

      Culpable, duplicitous, and miserable
      ByDanielle Kohfeldt, Gregory Mather

      chapter 11|13 pages

      The metanarrative of diabetes

      Should you be eating that?
      ByHeather R. Walker, Bianca C. Frazer

      chapter 12|14 pages

      The metanarrative of cancer

      Disrupting the battle myth
      ByNicola Martin

      chapter 13|15 pages

      The metanarrative of HIV and AIDS

      Losing track of an epidemic
      ByBrenda Tyrrell

      chapter 14|15 pages

      The metanarrative of sarcoidosis

      Life in liminality
      ByDana Combs Leigh

      chapter 15|16 pages

      The metanarrative of arthritis

      Playing and betraying the endgame
      ByDavid Bolt

      chapter |3 pages

      Epilogue

      ByClaire Penketh
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