Signs of Disability, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum

Автор: Stephanie L. Kerschbaum
Название: Signs of Disability
ISBN: 1479811165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479811168
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?
We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped “deaf person in area” road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms “dis-attention.”
To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena—including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability’s materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.
Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members’ experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of “dis-attention” and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings.

Автор: Kerschbaum John
Название: Science Comics: Skyscrapers: The Heights of Engineering
ISBN: 1626727945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626727946
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: Leave no brick unturned in John Kerschbaum`s Science Comics: Skyscrapers, the latest volume in First Second`s action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers!