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How can one write the history of disability, and what are the consequences for the disabled themselves? This is the key question that Pieter Verstraete addresses in this pioneering book that tries to rethink the possible bonds between disability, history and politics.

 Since the 1990’s the concept of disability has gained in prominence. Perhaps more than in other branches of historical enquiry, disability historians have attributed a crucial place to the notion ‘identity’. Re-cently, however, the suitability of identity for the realization of libera-ting and emancipatory politics for people with disabilities has been questioned. This book aims to incorporate some of the critical approaches towards identity and to suggest a complementary connection between history and political reform.

From the Contents:

Introduction: Cycling araound identity – from history to politics … and back

The Politics of identity

The shadow of identity • A Foucauldian perspective on disability history

DisabilityHistories

The problematization of disability • The politics of activity

Reconnecting Disability History and the Politics of Identity

The author:

Dr. Pieter Verstraete,

Postdoctoral research fellow Flemish Fund for Scientific Research Flanders/KU Leuven, Belgium

Keywords: Disability, history, Foucault

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 Target groups: Undergrads, Postgrads and researchers of Disability Studies, Sociology, Public Health, Political Science; historians of education, historians specialized in gender and minority groups, public health policy makers

Subject area: Disability Studies, Sociology, History, Public Health, Political Science

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Autor*innen

Pieter Verstraete

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Disability, Foucauld, history

Using disability to unmask education and its history is what […] makes this book relevant.

H-Disability, H-Net Reviews 11/2015

Dies führt dann weiter zu der Frage, ob der Mensch an sich behindert ist oder durch die Strukturen und Organisationen der jeweiligen Gesellschaft erst behindert wird – eine entscheidende Frage, wenn es darum geht, über die Bildungsstrukturen für Menschen mit Behinderungen zu diskutieren.

pw-portal, 29.01.2015