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Introducing disability aesthetics -- The aesthetics of human disqualification -- What can disability studies learn from the culture wars? -- Disability and art vandalism -- Trauma art : injury and wounding in the media age -- Words stare like a glass eye : disability in literary and visual studies -- Conclusion : disability in the mirror of art

Introduction -- Tender organs, narcissism, and identity politics -- Body theory : from social construction to the new realism of the body -- Disability studies and the future of identity politics -- Disability as masquerade -- Disability experience on trial -- A sexual culture for disabled people -- Sex, shame, and disability identity : with reference to Mark O'Brien -- Disability and the right to have rights -- Conclusion

Introduction: Disorienting Disability / Michele Friedner; Karen Weingarten -- A Theory of Microactivist Affordances: Disability, Disorientations, and Improvisations / Arseli Dokumacı -- Care Communities: Ethics, Fictions, Temporalities / Talia Schaffer -- After Marginalization: Pixelization, Disability, and Social Difference in Digital Russia / Cassandra Hartblay -- Articulating Double Binds: Between a Rhetoricity of Rights and Vulnerabilities (Relation, Pedagogy, Care) / Lisa Diedrich -- Neoliberalism and Embodied Precarity: Some Crip Responses / Margrit Shildrick -- Faithful to the Contemplation of Bones: Disability and Irremediable Grief / Christina Crosby -- Contentious Crossings: Struggles and Alliances for Freedom of Movement across the Mediterranean Sea / Charles Heller; Lorenzo Pezzani -- "Our Dreams Are Not Different from Yours": Between Arab Uprisings and Migrations / Marta Bellingreri -- Amplifying Migrant Voices and Struggles at Sea as a Radical Practice / Nina Violetta Schwarz; Maurice Stierl -- Fighting Violence across Borders: From Victimhood to Feminist Struggles / Enrica Rigo; Francesca De Masi -- State Repression, Hostel Capitalism, and Black Resistance in Italy / Richard Braude -- "Free Our Brothers!": On the Politicization of Slavery in Libya within the French Context / João Gabriell .

Notes on contributors -- Preface / Michael S. Jeffress -- Disability studies in the communication ethics classroom : pedagogies of justice and voice / Joy M. Cypher -- Creating a college course on communication and disability / Elaine Bass Jenks -- Exploring communication between the differently abled and the temporarily able-bodied in a special topics course / J. W. Smith, Stephanie Döhling, and Katherine Rush -- Incorporating disability studies into the communication classroom through a high impact engagement nonverbal communication assignment / Paula K. Baldwin and Michael S. Jeffress -- Sexuality and people with disabilities : a workshop within an interpersonal communication course / Kaori Miyawaki, Kate Ksobiech, Suzen Wildermuth, and Elizabeth Houtz -- Reframing the gender communication classroom : utilizing disability pedagogy / Brian Grewe, Jr -- Bodies of dis-ease : towards the re-conception of "health" in health communication / Andrew Spieldenner and Elena Anadolis -- Disability cultures and the intercultural communication course / Alberto González and Andrew Donofrio -- Disability and communication in the virtual classroom / Michael G. Strawser -- Eyes wide open: student involvement in asd research and tbi critical experiential learning in a media literacy class / Laura C. Farrell and Ginnifer L. Mastarone -- Enhancing campus accessibility : a disability studies approach to teaching technical communication / Rebecca Miner -- Exploring the intersection of ableism, image building and hegemonic masculinity in the political communication classroom / Emily Stones -- Unleashing disability perspectives in the public speaking course / Bettina Brockmann and Michael S. Jeffress -- Index

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