Michele Ilana Friedner

Sensory Futures

Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India

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Produktbeschreibung

"Sensory Futures explores deaf people's desires to create habitable worlds, grappling with their futures amid a surge in 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 biotechnological and social "cures" offer"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 146mm x 223mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781517912123
• ISBN-10: 1517912121
• Artikelnr.: 68756307

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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