Sensory Futures
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-1213-0 (ISBN)
A signing and speaking deaf bilateral cochlear implant user, Friedner weaves personal reflections into this fine-grained ethnography of everyday negotiations, activist aspirations, and the space of the family. She places sensory anthropology in conversation with disability studies to analyze how normative sensoria are cultivated and the pursuit of listening and speaking capability is enacted. She argues that the conditions of potentiality that have emerged through cochlear implantation have, in fact, resulted in ever narrower understandings of future life possibilities. Rejecting sensory hierarchies that privilege audition, Friedner calls for multisensory, multimodal, and multipersonal ways of relating to the world.
Sensory Futures explores deaf people’s desires to create habitable worlds and grapple with what their futures might look like, in India and beyond, amid a surge in both biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism. With implications for a broad range of disability experiences, this sensitive, in-depth research focuses on the specific experiences of deaf people, both children and adults, and the structural, political, and social possibilities offered by both biotechnological and social “cures.”
Michele Ilana Friedner is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She is author of Valuing Deaf Worlds in India.
Note on Transliteration and Anonymization
Introduction: Sensory, Modal, and Relational Narrowing through Cochlear Implants
1. Disability Camps and Surgical Celebrations: Indian Disability Interventions and the Creation of Complex Dependencies
2. Becoming Unisensory: Creating a Child’s Social Sense through Auditory Verbal Therapy and Total Communication
3. Mothers’ Work: Intersensing and Learning to Talk like a Cricket Commentator
4. (Non-)Use: Maintaining Devices, Relationships, and Senses
5. Becoming Normal: Potentiality Beyond Passing
Conclusion: Beyond the Bad S: Making Space for Sensory Unruliness
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Five Indian Cochlear Implant Trajectories
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.05.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 20 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Minnesota |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► HNO-Heilkunde |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5179-1213-X / 151791213X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5179-1213-0 / 9781517912130 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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