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Mitchell, David with Sharon Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability. Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiments

Mitchell, David with Sharon Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability. Neoliberalism,... BOOK REVIEWS Mitchell David with Sharon Snyder. The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-472-05271-4 (paperback). Pp. 288. $ 32.50. David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder's scholarship has both shaped and expanded the field of disability studies. Many will find The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment to be no exception. The book contributes to a growing body of scholarship within disability studies that explores the relationship between neoliberalism, (bio)politics, globalisation, nationalism, and disability. As such, it maps urgent issues and marks equally urgent interventions. The Biopolitics of Disability explores different cultural locations as launching points for the book's larger critique of biopolitical formations and its examination of those living within and against these formations. The book spans a broad terrain, exploring the use of disability within charity campaigns and NGOs' work, disability's place (and/or absence) in university policies, practices, and pedagogies, the rise and significance of international disability film festivals, and the `politic of atypical' that they forward, the possibilities and limits of patient expert groups, and the representational interventions offered by what they describe as `antinormative novels'. In moving across these locations of analysis, The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Somatechnics Edinburgh University Press

Mitchell, David with Sharon Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability. Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiments

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Somatechnics , Volume 6 (2): 262 – Sep 1, 2016
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Edinburgh University Press
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Book Reviews; Film, Media and Cultural Studies
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2044-0138
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10.3366/soma.2016.0195
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BOOK REVIEWS Mitchell David with Sharon Snyder. The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-472-05271-4 (paperback). Pp. 288. $ 32.50. David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder's scholarship has both shaped and expanded the field of disability studies. Many will find The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment to be no exception. The book contributes to a growing body of scholarship within disability studies that explores the relationship between neoliberalism, (bio)politics, globalisation, nationalism, and disability. As such, it maps urgent issues and marks equally urgent interventions. The Biopolitics of Disability explores different cultural locations as launching points for the book's larger critique of biopolitical formations and its examination of those living within and against these formations. The book spans a broad terrain, exploring the use of disability within charity campaigns and NGOs' work, disability's place (and/or absence) in university policies, practices, and pedagogies, the rise and significance of international disability film festivals, and the `politic of atypical' that they forward, the possibilities and limits of patient expert groups, and the representational interventions offered by what they describe as `antinormative novels'. In moving across these locations of analysis, The

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