Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies on Capitalism, Poverty, and Disability (Vol. 4 No. 2)

[Jay Dolmage]

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

I am excited to announce that a new issue of The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies is now live:

http://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/issue/view/12

Please read, download, share, and respond.

Thanks as always to Reviews Editor Dr. Jen Rinaldi and Assistant Editor and Social Media Editor Sarah Gibbons.  The special issue Editor for this issue was Bonita Heath.

Here is the table of contents:

“From Each According to Ability”? Capitalism, Poverty, and Disability

Introduction

Bonita Heath, York University

 

Articles

Gradations of Debility and Capacity: Biocapitalism and the Neoliberalization of Disability Relations

Kelly Fritsch, York University

Disability and Latin American Cultural Studies: A Critique of Corporeal Difference, Identity, and Social Exclusion

Eugenio di Stefano, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Between Protection and Activation: People with Disabilities in the Social Investment State

Lucie Dumais, Université du Québec à Montréal

Léonie Archambault, McGill University

Commodification, Disabled People and Wage Work in Britain

Chris Grover, University of Lancaster

Access to Work or Liberation from Work? Disabled People, Autonomy And Post-Work Politics

Steven Graby, University of Leeds 

Disability, Austerity and Cruel Optimism in Big Society: Resistance and ‘The Disability Commons’

Katherine Runswick-Cole, Manchester Metropolitan University

Daniel Goodley, University of Sheffield

 

Review article

Inequality Made Flesh: Disability and the Political Economy of the Body

Amy Sorensen, Radford University

 

Book reviews

Review of Keith Wailoo’s Pain: A Political History

Susan Barak, York University

Review of David Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Alexis Buettgen, York University


Jay Dolmage, Ph.D
Editor, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor of English
University of Waterloo
Department of English
Hagey Hall of Humanities Building
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x31035
Fax: 519 746 5788
dolmage at uwaterloo.ca
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