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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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1. Verfasser: Friedner, Michele Ilana, 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota, [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Schlagworte:
Deaf children > India > Social conditions.
Deaf children > Government policy > India.
Cochlear implants > Social aspects > India.
Cochlear implants > Government policy > India.
Deafness > Social aspects > India.
Assimilation (Sociology) > India.
Sociology of disability > India.
Electronic books.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.

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