Remapping an Ableist World examines the forces shaping our lives in an able capitalist world. It draws on examples including human enhancement and the organ trade to illustrate connections between able capitalist ways of life, impairment, disability, and oppression.
The book addresses ableness as a regime of power and oppression intrinsic to global capitalism and, as such, a system that touches all of our lives, albeit in different ways. Vera Chouinard offers an intersectional analysis of the production of impairment and disability, drawing on autoethnographic and autobiographical methodologies, case studies of disability in the Global South and North, and comparative accounts of processes such as the uneven development of disability law. Inviting readers to rethink the causes and consequences of the ableist capitalist order in which we find ourselves, Remapping an Ableist World reminds us that for our own well-being and that of generations to comes we must forge a less destructive and more nurturing way of life.
By:
Vera Chouinard
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781487507183
ISBN 10: 1487507186
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 15 August 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Preface 1. Introduction: Remapping an Ableist World 2. From Disability to Social Injustice: Re-framing Ableness, Impairment, and Disability Issues 3. On Living in an Ableist World (without Necessarily Knowing It) and Being Disabled in and outside the Academy: Autoethnographic Reflections 4. Mapping Bipolar Worlds: Lived Geographies of ‘“Madness”’ in Autoethnographic and Autobiographical Accounts 5. What’s Neo-Liberal Global Capitalism Got to Do with It?: Ableness and the Production of Impairment and Disability 6. To the Ends of the Earth: Wealth, Poverty, and the Pursuit of Able Embodiment 7. Beyond the Limits of Law: Disability Human Rights Law and the Struggle for Socio-Sspatial Justice 8. Conclusions: What Next? Working Towards a More Enabling and Empowering World Postscript: On Daring to Dream Another World References Index
Vera Chouinard is a professor emeritus of Earth, environment, and society at McMaster University.
