Finding Blindness (eBook, PDF)

International Constructions and Deconstructions
Redaktion: Bolt, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume explores blindness as a construct with which we the contributors engage as part of our social existence and/or academic research. Irrespective of eye conditions, or the lack thereof, blindness is an understanding at which we have all come to arrive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000821703
• Artikelnr.: 66340954

Autorenporträt

David Bolt (Professor) is Personal Chair in Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom. He completed his PhD in 2004 at the University of Staffordshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cultural Stations of Blindness: From Ignorance to
Understandings. Part 1: The Directions and Redirections of Education:
Critical Spaces and Events. 1. Affective Possibilities of Everyday
Encounters with Blindness. 2. From PowerPoint to Zoom: Interrogating the
Gaze in Teaching at a Small South African University. 3. Blindness as a
Social Construct in Cyprus: What Can We Learn from Cultural Events and
Artefacts Aiming to Claim Rights, Celebrate, or Prevent Blindness?. 4. The
Flag, A Rap and The Ethnographer: Looking for 'Indianness' within Visual
Impairment. 5. Blind Student as a Bypassed Reader: Analyzing Blindness in
Required Reading for Schools in Poland. Part II: The Blind Reading the
Blind: Politics and Religion. 6. From World War to Social Integration and
Beyond: Experiences of Blindness in Twentieth-Century Italy. 7. A State of
Spiritual Derangement: Blindness in Seventh-day Adventist Theology,
1860s-1950s. 8. Faith Healing and Blindness Across Cultures: Disability,
Religion, and the Scientific Milieu. 9. The Acceptance and Transcendence of
Blindness: A Collaborative Autoethnography. 10. Encountering the Myth,
Transforming Utopian Realities of Blindness: Counter Narrative Notes on
Intersectional Interdependence and Critical Hermeneutics. 11. Crip Gazes:
Eye Mutilations and the 'Biopolitics of Debilitation' in Lina Meruane and
Nicole Kramm. Part III: Stage and the Page: Performance, Dramatics, and
Literary Representation. 12. Sighted-Blindness-Consultants and the
Ever-Lasting Station of Blindness. 13. Touching the Rock: Masculinity and
Macular Degeneration. 14. Bringing a Brick to Market: Pedagogical
Perspectives on the Discordant Interplay between Critical and Cultural
Stations of Blindness. 15. To Boldly Go Where No One (Sighted) has Gone
Before: Positive Portrayals of Blindness in Star Trek: TNG and H. G.
Wells's 'The Country of the Blind'. 16. Revisiting Ruins of Blindness: A
Sketched Out Silhouette.