| Description |
1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 the specific experiences of deaf people, both children and adults, and the structural, political, and social possibilities biotechnological and social "cures" offer"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Deaf children -- India -- Social conditions
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Deaf children -- Government policy -- India
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Cochlear implants -- Social aspects -- India
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Cochlear implants -- Government policy -- India
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Deafness -- Social aspects -- India
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Assimilation (Sociology) -- India
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Sociology of disability -- India
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Cochlear implants -- Government policy
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Deafness -- Social aspects
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Sociology of disability
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021062330 |
| ISBN |
9781452967196 |
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1452967199 |
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9781452967202 |
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1452967202 |
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9781517912130 |
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151791213X |
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