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Disabling Relations: Wounded Bodyminds and Transnational PRAXIS

Disabling Relations: Wounded Bodyminds and Transnational PRAXIS

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Series: D/C: Dis/Color

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyIran History

ISBN10: 1439922497
ISBN13: 9781439922491
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: Dec 19 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How do we learn to defetishize disability in our everyday lives? In Disabling Relations, Sona Kazemi probes this and other questions that consider how processes and relations of patriarchy, imperialism, and religious fundamentalism, as well as class and ideology, rework the dialectics of disability in transnational contexts.

Kazemi focuses on the disabled dissidents who were incarcerated and tortured by the Islamic regime in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution in Iran, the disabled veterans and civilians wounded during and after the Iran-Iraq War, the disabled survivors of state-sanctioned punitive limb amputation, and the disabled women survivors of acid attacks as a form of gender-based violence. Disabling Relations explains how disabled bodyminds are produced and sustained through the violence of patriarchal, capitalist-imperialist, nationalist, and theocratic social relations. Kazemi uses the theoretical concept of wounding as a historical process of becoming and remaining disabled mediated by unequal power relations and disability consciousness to show how these survivors come to terms with their disability.

Thinking about critical disability theory in a new way, Kazemi investigates how disability is produced transnationally and the impact that this new theorization can make globally.

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