Critical Theory and Disability: A Phenomenological Approach

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Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
	Key ideas
		Undermining of being
		Modernity and its ontological reductions
		World, being-in-the-world, Dasein
		Lived body
	Methodological considerations
		Sociology
		Philosophy
		Case study method
		Overview of the cases
	The Bulgarian context
	Personal reflections
		Professional background
		Conceptual background
		Relational background
2. The body
	Body, realism, and disability studies
	The British social model of disability
	Updating the social model
	Rejecting the social model
	Concluding remarks
		Finitude
		World and being-in-the-world
		Lived body
3. Disability assessment
	Disability assessment in Bulgaria
	Linking medicalization and productivism
	Transformations of modernity and attempts at changing the status quo
	Disability assessment statement as a boundary object
	Three social worlds
	The administrative and the sociopolitical: Coordination, standardization, and naturalization
	Concluding remarks
4. Personal assistance
	The European Center for Excellence in Personal Assistance project
	From autonomy to interdependence
	Putting the shift in context
	Self-driven customers?
	Choice and control revisited
	Collective action for legislative change
	Collective action after legislative change
	Concluding remarks
5. Discrimination
	A phenomenological approach to space and time
	Objectification
	Space
	Time
	Nonhuman entities
	Concluding remarks
6. Media representations of inaccessibility
	Defamiliarization and uncanniness
	Encounters with stairs
	Bodies and human activity
	Human activity and self-definition
	Illuminating the strangeness of the familiar
	Concluding remarks
7. Sexuality
	“I, my impairment and sex”
	“We talk about sex”
		Silencing and desexualization
		The meaning of impairment
		Medicalization
		Gender
	Concluding remarks
8. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
	The Convention
		The paradigm shift
	The juridical dimension of interpretation
	The extra-juridical dimension of interpretation
		The socially embedded materiality of interpretation
		Interpretation and translation
		Two Bulgarian versions
		Defi ning disability: Preambular paragraph (e) and Article 1
		Independent living: Article 19
	Concluding remarks
9. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index