Contents
Foucault, Governmentality, and Critical Disability Theory Today: A Genealogy of the Archive / Shelley Tremain
I. Epistemologies and Ontologies
Subjected Bodies: Paraplegia, Rehabilitation, and the Politics of Movement / Martin Sullivan
Signs of Reason: Rivière, Facilitated Communication, and the Crisis of the Subject / Nirmala Erevelles
Truth, Power, and Ethics in Care Services for People with Learning Difficulties / Scott Yates
What Can a Foucauldian Analysis Contribute to Disability Theory? / Bill Hughes
Foucault’s Nominalism / Barry Allen
Legislating Disability: Negative Ontologies and the Government of Legal Identities / Fiona Kumari Campbell
II. Histories
Docile Bodies, Docile Minds: Foucauldian Reflections on Mental Retardation / Licia Carlson
Uncommon Schools: Institutionalizing Deafness in Early-Nineteenth-Century America / Jane Berger
The Phénomène’s Dilemma: Teratology and the Policing of Human Anomalies in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century Paris / Diana Snigurowicz
III. Governmentalities
Who is Normal? Who is Deviant? “Normality” and “Risk” in Genetic Diagnostics and Counseling / Anne Waldschmidt
Inclusive Education for Exclusive Pupils: A Critical Analysis of the Government of the Exceptional / Maarten Simons and Jan Masschelein
Supported Living and the Production of Individuals / Chris Drinkwater
Real and Ideal Spaces of Disability in American Stadiums and Arenas / Carolyn Anne Anderson
Foucault on the Phone: Disability and the Mobility of Government / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell
IV. Ethics and Politics
Inclusion as an Ethical Project / Julie Allan
Gender Police / Kathryn Pauly Morgan
V. Disability and Governmentality in the Present
From Inhalation to Inspiration: A Genealogical Auto-ethnography of a Supercrip / Danielle Peers
“Life Worth Defending”: Biopolitical Frames of Terror in the War on Autism / Anne McGuire
Expressions of “Lives Worth Living” and Their Foreclosure through Philosophical Theorizing on Moral Status and Intellectual Disability / Ashley Taylor
Death by Choice, Life by Privilege: Biopolitical Circuits of Vitality and Debility in the Times of Empire / Katerina Kolarova
Contributors
Index