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Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet, Dolmage argues that communication has always been obsessed with the meaning of the body and that bodily difference is always highly rhetorical. Following from this rewriting of rhetorical history, he outlines the development of a new theory, affirming the ideas that all communication is embodied, that the body plays a central role in all expression, and that greater attention to a range of bodies is therefore essential to a better understanding of rhetorical histories, theories, and possibilities.--Publisher description.

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 .

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This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

Persons with disabilities still experience challenges in obtaining employment even though obligations associated with their employment are in place in legislative frameworks that strive to support transformation within the labour market. This paper explores employers' perspectives on the employment of persons with disabilities in South Africa identified in a case study. The influence of social capital on disability inclusive employment was explored from the perspective of two employers who employed trainees who completed an auxiliary training programme for persons with disabilities, which provides opportunities to facilitate pathways to economic inclusion and/or employment. Findings reveal that despite the call for increased labour inclusivity, the development of social capital is not clearly apparent when persons with disabilities are considered for employment. Organisational attitudes and beliefs seem to stem from the obligatory standpoint of the organisations. The paper highlights the need for employers to look beyond impairments so that employment goals are shared and re-enforced by understanding and possibly re-evaluating their views on their organisation's obligations, norms, values and mission, and goals. Insights can guide employers to think more holistically about ways to facilitate the economic inclusion of persons with disabilities.

1. Disability studies in the communication ethics classroom : pedagogies of justice and voice / Joy M. Cypher -- 2. Creating a college course on communication and disability / Elaine Bass Jenks -- 3. Exploring communication between the differently abled and the temporarily able-bodied in a special topics course / J.W. Smith, Stephanie Dohling and Katherine Rush -- 4. Incorporating disability studies into the communication classroom through a high impact engagement nonverbal communication assignment / Paula K. Baldwin and Michael S. Jeffress -- 5. Sexuality and people with disabilities : a workshop within an interpersonal communication course / Kaori Miyawaki. [et al.] -- 6. Reframing the gender communication classroom : utilizing disability pedagogy / Brian Grewe, Jr -- 7. Bodies of dis-ease : towards the re-conception of "health" in health communication / Andrew Spieldenner and Elena Anadolis -- 8. Disability cultures and the intercultural communication course / Alberto Gonzalez and Andrew Donofrio -- 9. Disability and communication in the virtual classroom / Michael G. Strawser -- 10. 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 -- 11. Enhancing campus accessibility : a disability studies approach to teaching technical communication / Rebecca Miner -- 12. Exploring the intersection of ableism, image-building and hegemonic masculinity in the political communication classroom / Emily Stones -- 13. Unleashing disability perspectives in the public speaking course / Bettina Brockmann and Michael S. Jeffress.

Disability studies, although an emerging discipline, has already advanced in the Global North compared to the Global South in that the discourse around disability has shifted its focus from mere survival debates of the persons with disabilities to subtler and more nuanced forms and manifestations of disability existence. Even at the policy level, the "medical model" of disability has been substituted by different versions of the "social model." The main idea of the "social model" of disability is that human beings are extremely diverse in terms of mental and bodily faculties, functions and structures, and disability indeed results from the "disabling" infrastructures and environment that society has created without taking this human diversity into account. Some versions of the "social model" go so far as to glorify the bodily and mental disabilities, deeming them merely as manifestations of human variation or diversity that offers a unique experience to be valued and celebrated (Roush & Sharby, 2011). Disability in any form is merely a variation of humanity, but the disadvantages this diversity creates are the lived-realities that should not and cannot be left unattended. What I find even more problematic is the idea of glorifying and romanticizing disability. Such a glorified notion of disability, I argue, becomes yet another means to oppressing the persons with disabilities. The "medical model" that some disability studies scholars in the Global North have discarded can prove still relevant to the Global South, and particularly to South Asia. If disability activists and civil society organizations relish only in the rhetoric of disability as a "human rights" issue, and not pay ample attention to the physical and mental realities of the persons with disabilities, the "rights-based" discourse could ultimately be counterproductive.

In this essay, I develop an account of disability exclusion that, though inspired by Julia Kristeva, diverges from her account in several important ways. I first offer a brief interpretation of Kristeva's essays "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and … Vulnerability" and "A Tragedy and a Dream: Disability Revisited" and, using this interpretation, I assess certain criticisms of Kristeva's position made by Jan Grue in his "Rhetorics of Difference: Julia Kristeva and Disability." I then argue that Kristeva's concept ofabjection,especially as developed by Sara Ahmed and Tina Chanter, offers important insights into disability oppression; Ahmed's and Chanter's contributions improve upon Kristeva's account. Understanding disability as abject helps to explain both resistances to interacting with disabled others and ways to resist disability oppression. Finally, I argue that understanding disability as abject is preferable to recent deployments of Lacanian theory in disability studies and that this account is compatible with social models of disability.

"This book explores the opportunities and challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of digital games from the perspective of three related areas: representation, access and inclusion, and community. Drawing on key concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital games. Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokémon Go. The book asks how game developers can attempt to represent diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as examples. A significant collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, this volume will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game design and development, internet, visual, cultural, communication and media studies, as well as disability studies"--

"This book explores the opportunities and challenges people with disabilities experience in the context of digital games from the perspective of three related areas: representation, access and inclusion, and community. Drawing on key concerns in disability media studies, the book brings together scholars from disability studies and game studies, alongside game developers, educators, and disability rights activists, to reflect upon the increasing visibility of disabled characters in digital games. Chapters explore the contemporary gaming environment as it relates to disability on platforms such as Twitch, Minecraft, and Tingyou, while also addressing future possibilities and pitfalls for people with disabilities within gaming given the rise of virtual reality applications, and augmented games such as Pokémon Go. The book asks how game developers can attempt to represent diverse abilities, taking games such as BlindSide and Overwatch as examples. A significant collection for scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of digital games, this volume will be of interest across several disciplines including game studies, game design and development, internet, visual, cultural, communication and media studies, as well as disability studies"--

Disability Mainstreaming zielt (analog zu Gender Mainstreaming) darauf, Anliegen und Bedürfnisse der Personengruppe 'Menschen mit Behinderung' nicht allein in den für diese Gruppe offensichtlich wichtigen Bereichen anzusprechen, sondern sie in allen gesellschaftspolitischen Handlungsebenen mitzudenken und dementsprechende Forderungen umzusetzen. Dabei wird 'Behinderung' vorrangig als soziale Konstruktion interpretiert, die mit der Erfahrung von Diskriminierung und Exklusion einhergeht.