Mobilizing Metaphor

Art, Culture, and Disability Activism in Canada

Christine Kelly, Michael Orsini (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2017
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3280-9 (ISBN)

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Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the vibrant tradition of disability activism in Canada, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.

Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the rich and vibrant tradition of disability mobilization in Canada – and in the process, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.

Until now, research on Canadian disability activism has focused on legal and policy spheres and overlooked how disability activism is as varied as the population it represents. Mobilizing Metaphor combines contributions by artists, activists, and academics (including an insightful concluding chapter by renowned disability scholar Tanya Titchkoksy) with rich illustrations and photographs to reveal how disability art is distinctive as both art and social action.

As the contributors sketch the shifting contours of disability politics in Canada and show how disability oppression is not isolated from other prejudices, they challenge us to re-examine how we enact social and political change.

Christine Kelly is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba and a former Banting postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. Michael Orsini is a full professor in the School of Political Studies and vice-dean of graduate studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Contributors: Paula Bath, Drew Danielle Belsky, Eliza Chandler, Nadine Changfoot, Kathryn Church, Diane Driedger, Lindsay Eales, Catherine Frazee, Gabriel Blouin Genest, Melissa Graham, nancy viva davis halifax, Kevin Jackson, Véro Leduc, Alex McClelland, Pamela Moss, Kristin Nelson, Melanie Panitch, Jeffrey Preston, Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi, jes sachse, Tanya Titchkosky, and Jessica Whitbread

Introduction

Introduction: Mobilizing Metaphor / Christine Kelly and Michael Orsini

Part 1: Assemblages of Disability Research, Art, and Social Transformation

1 Fixing: The Claiming and Reclaiming of Disability History / Catherine Frazee, Kathryn Church, and Melanie Panitch

2 Imagining Otherwise: The Ephemeral Spaces of Envisioning New Meanings / Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, and Nadine Changfoot

3 PosterVirus: Claiming Sexual Autonomy for People with HIV through Collective Action / Alexander McClelland and Jessica Whitbread

4 Deaf and Disability Arts: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Potential of Progressive Studios / Kristin Nelson

5 “It Fell on Deaf Ears”: Deafhood through the Graphic Signed Novel as a Form of Artivism / Véro Leduc

Part 2: Artistic Paths to Disability Activism

6 (Dis)quiet in the Peanut Gallery: Performing Social Justice through Integrated Dance / Lindsay Eales

7 Battle Lines Drawn: Creative Resistance to Ableism through Online Media / Jeffrey Preston

8 Deconstructing Phonocentrism: A New Genre in Deaf Arts / Paula Bath

9 Crip the Light Fantastic: Art as Liminal Emancipatory Practice in the Twenty-First Century / jes sachse

10 Claiming “the Masters” for Disability Rights: An Artist’s Journey / Diane Driedger

Part 3: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Disability Movements

11 Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments: Embracing Biomedical Claims for ME / Pamela Moss

12 Challenging Rhetorical Indifference with a Cripped Poetry of Witness / Jen Rinaldi and nancy viva davis halifax

13 The Body as Resistance Art/ifact: Disability Activism during the 2012 Quebec Student Movement / Gabriel Blouin Genest

14 Divided No More: The Toronto Disability Pride March and the Challenges of Inclusive Organizing / Melissa Graham and Kevin Jackson

15 Accountability, Agency, and Absence: Embodying Radical Disability Values in Artistic Production / Drew Danielle Belsky

Conclusion: The Politics of Embracing Disability Metaphor / Tanya Titchkosky

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Disability Culture and Politics
Zusatzinfo	28 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-3280-0 / 0774832800
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3280-9 / 9780774832809
Zustand	Neuware