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Author(s): Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody
ISBN(s): 9789087908546, 9087908547
Edition: 1
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Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10:         9087908539
ISBN 13: 978-9087908539
Author:          Anna Catherine Hickey Moody

To move beyond the theory and practice divide, to leave the mind-body distinction behind us, to affirm lives rather than negate them, are among the most wise principles of our age. They are lessons learned from Spinoza, Deleuze and Guattari: we still do not know what bodies can do, because we still think of bodies and minds in restrictive and hierarchical ways. Yet few, very few works push through to the other side or even show us what it might look like, instead of merely preparing a cerebral path, and in so doing falling back into older modes of thinking and outdated cultural models. The great achievement of Anna Hickey-Moody’s book on intellectual disabilities, dance and philosophy is then to have shown us a way to truly think of disability as ability, creatively, within multiple cultures and in changing environments. In offering a thoughtful, sensitive and genuinely practical immersion in the work of the Restless dance ensemble, she puts Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts to work so that we may not only understand them, but also discover a world where they find a setting suited to a novel emphasis on multiple differences resistant to simple ordering and judgement. This allows for a powerful critique of medical discourses in their reliance on terminologies based around impairment and lack. Hickey-Moody demonstrates the cost of defining levels of ability against norms and around the concept of wholeness. More importantly, though, thanks to her work on dance she shifts the academic, political and ethical frame for living in a world of different abilities away from classification and coping, and towards forms of affirmation sensitive to the power to challenge limits embodied by senses, affects and ideas. This book will change disciplines, not only because it makes us think in new ways, but because it releases minds and bodies too long devalued in bygone ones. Professor James Williams, the University of Dundee Unimaginable Bodies draws on the thought of Spinoza, and Deleuze and
 Guattari, in novel ways in order to confront medical and sociological
 categories of intellectual disability. When this philosophical
 approach
 is
 coupled with Hickey-Moody’s fascinating reflections on her work with
 Restless Dance Company, the ethics.
 This vital and empowering book promises to transform mundane sense(s)
of
 ability and disability. Professor Moira Gatens,
 University of
 Sydney ‘Unimaginable Bodies is an indispensable study that deepens our understanding of disability and corporeality – and offers us a luminous reframing of long-standing questions about bodies, ethics, senses, movement, and power.’ Gerard Goggin , University of New South Wales, Australia Author biography: Dr. Anna Hickey-Moody is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is interested in how we can re-frame questions of social justice, and as such, her research intersects across cultural studies of youth, disability and gender. Drawing on philosophy and the arts, Anna is interested in how bodies marked as somehow being ‘disadvantaged’ might be thought in new ways. She is co-author of Masculinity beyond the Metropolis (Palgrave) and co-editor of Deleuzian Encounters (Palgrave).
 

Unimaginable Bodies Intellectual Disability Performance and Becomings 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 1: Disability and the Performance of Normalcy

  • Examining how disability is framed in mainstream discourse
  • Performance of normalcy and its implications on disabled bodies

Chapter 2: Re-thinking Bodies: Disability in a Fluid World

  • Perspectives on bodies and identities
  • Challenging the static notion of disability through movement and performance

Part II: Disability and Performance: Practices and Representations

Chapter 3: The Stage and the Body: Performing Intellectual Disability

  • Analysis of how intellectual disability is represented in performance art
  • Case studies from theater and live performances featuring disabled actors

Chapter 4: Narrative Shifts: Storytelling and Intellectual Disability

  • Changing narratives around intellectual disability through storytelling
  • How performance reshapes public perceptions

Chapter 5: Embodying Disability: From Passive to Active Performance

  • Empowering disabled individuals through performance
  • Moving beyond victimization toward a re-imagined body on stage

Part III: Intersectionality and the Politics of Disability Performance

Chapter 6: Disability, Gender, and the Body on Stage

  • Exploring how intellectual disability intersects with gender identity in performance
  • The politics of representing both disability and gender through art

Chapter 7: Race, Class, and Performance of Disability

  • Examining the racial and class-based implications in disability performances
  • How performance complicates racialized narratives around disability

Chapter 8: Reclaiming Disability: Artistic and Activist Movements

  • Activism through the arts and how performance challenges conventional representations
  • Reclaiming space for disabled bodies in artistic expression

Part IV: Beyond Representation: The Becoming of Disabled Bodies

Chapter 9: Becomings and Disability: A New Conceptualization

  • The idea of ‘becoming’ in relation to disability and performance
  • Rejecting static identities and embracing a fluid, transformative experience

Chapter 10: Unimaginable Bodies in Practice

  • Real-world examples of how disabled individuals are performing and reshaping their roles
  • Case studies of contemporary disability performance practices

Conclusion: Re-imagining the Body: Disability, Performance, and Futures

  • Reflections on the future of disability performance
  • Closing thoughts on how performance can challenge societal expectations and open new spaces for disabled identities

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