Finding blindness : international constructions and deconstructions /: international constructions and deconstructions. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Bolt.
• Editors: Bolt, David, 1966-
• Contents: Introduction - Cultural Stations of Blindness: From Ignorance to Understandings; David Bolt Part 1: The Directions and Redirections of Education: Critical Spaces and Events Chapter One - Affective Possibilities of Everyday Encounters with Blindness; Leah Burch Chapter Two – From PowerPoint to Zoom: Interrogating the Gaze in Teaching at a Small South African University; Lorenzo Dalvit Chapter Three – Blindness as a Social Construct in Cyprus: What Can We Learn from Cultural Events and Artefacts Aiming to Claim Rights, Celebrate or Prevent Blindness?; Simoni Symeonidou and Kyriakos Demetriou Chapter Four – The Flag, A Rap and The Ethnographer: Looking for ‘Indianness’ within Visual Impairment; Mahashewta Bhattacharya and Bijendra Singh Chapter Five – Blind Student as a Bypassed Reader: Analyzing Blindness in Required Reading for Schools in Poland; Monika Dubiel Part II: The Blind Reading the Blind: Politics and Religion Chapter Six – From World War to Social Integration and Beyond: Experiences of Blindness in 20th Century Italy; Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre Chapter Seven – A State of Spiritual Derangement: Blindness in Seventh-day Adventist Theology, 1860s-1950s; Talea Anderson Chapter Eight – Faith Healing and Blindness Across Cultures: Disability, Religion, and the Scientific Milieu; Aravinda Bhat Chapter Nine – The Acceptance and Transcendence of Blindness: A Collaborative Autoethnography; Neng Priyanti and Taufiq Effendi Chapter Ten – Encountering the Myth, Transforming Utopian Realities of Blindness: Counter Narrative Notes on Intersectional Interdependence and Critical Hermeneutics; Alexis Padilla Chapter Eleven – Crip Gazes: Eye Mutilations and the ‘Biopolitics of Debilitation’ in Lina Meruane and Nicole Kramm; Carlos Ayram and Marta Pascua Canelo Part III: Stage and the Page: Performance, Dramatics, and Literary Representation Chapter Twelve – Sighted-Blindness-Consultants and the Ever-Lasting Station of Blindness; Devon Healey Chapter Thirteen – Touching the Rock: Masculinity and Macular Degeneration; Declan Kavanagh Chapter Fourteen – Bringing a Brick to Market: Pedagogical Perspectives on the Discordant Interplay between Critical and Cultural Stations of Blindness; David Feeney Chapter Fifteen – To Boldly Go Where No One (Sighted) has Gone Before: Positive Portrayals of Blindness in Star Trek: TNG and H. G. Wells’s ‘The Country of the Blind’; Brenda Tyrell Chapter Sixteen – Revisiting Ruins of Blindness: A Sketched Out Silhouette; David Bolt
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.41; Blind; People with visual disabilities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000821727; 9781000821703
• Related ISBNs: 9781032229720; 9781032229928
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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