Disability, Revolution

What revolutionary disability politics look like today, with lessons for larger liberatory movements.

In recent political times, disability identity has been mobilized in ways that paradoxically compound bodily injury and disability. This single-issue approach obscures the oppression of disabled people and prevents solidarity across difference.

In Disability, Revolution, Robert McRuer introduces alternatives to “one-dimensional disability,” providing an accessible overview of disability justice movements and their relevance to larger emancipatory coalitions. Exploring the most prominent examples from the past several decades, the book focuses on the convergence of queer and crip movements, mad pride, intersectional disability justice work, neurodiversity, and the globalization of disability alliances. Essential for anyone interested in disability politics, this book shows how these multivalent movements help us imagine alternative disabled worlds.

Robert McRuer is Professor of English at George Washington University and author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. 

Contents

Overview

Introduction
1. Crip/Queer/Trans Worldmaking
2. Disability Justice and Care Work
3. Multidimensional Mad Movements
4. Global Trajectories
Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Selected Bibliography