McRuer, Robert
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance (Crip)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781479874156
- author:
- McRuer, Robert
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- New York University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Handicapped
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer explores how disability activists, artists, and social movements are resisting austerity politics and imagining alternative futures. Through various cultural flashpoints, including the London 2012 Olympic Games, Oscar Pistorius's murder trial, and Brazilian artist Livia Radwanski's photography documenting gentrification in Mexico City, McRuer examines how disabled people are demanding that disability be central to our understanding of political economy. McRuer argues that a politics of austerity will always generate the compulsion to fortify borders and separate those in need from others. In contrast, he suggests that disabled people's demands for disability justice are starting to register in some locations. This book provides important insights into transnational queer disability theory and culture-activism as sites for contesting austerity politics and imagining alternatives. By considering the intersections of globalization, disability, and resistance, Crip Times offers a nuanced understanding of the complex relationships between power, economy, and social justice.
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