Sensory Futures : Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India /
"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 th...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota,
[2022]
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Table of 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.