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. On the way to this conceptual point, which is in any case unlikely ever to be fixed, we have passed or visited many formative cultural stations.
In the terms of autocritical disability studies (i.e. an explicitly embodied development of critical disability studies), these cultural stations include key moments in education and training; the reflective pursuits of philosophy, aesthetics, and cultural theory; literary works such as autobiography, novels, short stories, drama, and poetry; visual texts ranging from photography to postage stamps; technological developments like television, computer applications, and social media; value systems defined by family and/or religion; and the social phenomenon of hate and war. Each chapter in this volume engages with two of these cultural stations; some ostensibly if not profoundly positive or indeed negative, some that contradict each other within and across chapters.
This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, education and health.
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.
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. Wellss The Country of the Blind.
16. Revisiting Ruins of
Blindness: A Sketched Out Silhouette.
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.
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