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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology
Episode: Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, "Disability Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)
Description: In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York Cityâs wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled childrenâs lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition and rights. Disability consciousness, they show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions. Chapters consider dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of âspecial education,â and the perils of transitioning from high school. They also highlight the vitality of neurodi...