Sensory futures deafness and cochlear implant infrastructures in India
"Sensory Futures explores deaf people's desires to create habitable worlds, grappling with their futures amid a surge in biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism. With implications for a broad range of disability experiences, this sensitive, in-depth research focuses on th...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press
[2022]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009662682706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Sensory, modal, and relational narrowing through cochlear implants
- Disability camps and surgical celebrations : Indian disability interventions and the creation of complex dependencies
- Becoming unisensory : creating a child's social sense through auditory verbal therapy and total communication
- Mothers' work : intersensing and learning to talk like a cricket commentator
- (Non-)use : maintaining devices, relationships, and senses
- Becoming normal : potentiality beyond passing
- Conclusion. Beyond the bad S : making space for sensory unruliness.
