Stacy Clifford Simplican

The Capacity Contract

Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking seriously democratic promises of equality and inclusion, TheCapacity Contract rejects conceptions of political citizenship thatprivilege cognitive capacity and, instead, centers such citizenship on actionthat is accessible to all people. As the first sustained examination ofdisability through the lens of political theory,

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780816694037
• ISBN-10: 0816694036
• Artikelnr.: 41782764

Autorenporträt

Stacy Clifford Simplican is a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University and the DOCTRID Research Institute, which focuses on improving the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability
1. Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy
2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect
3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory
4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement
5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming Empowered
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index