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Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture—activism, blogs, art, photography, literature, and performance—provide important and generative sites for both contesting austerity politics and imagining alternatives. The book engages various cultural flashpoints, including the spectacle.

Crip Times is a necessary book for our times." (Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability) "A brilliant, ambitious, and wide-ranging book, Crip Times reveals the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity politics.

McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling theoretical architectures with Cited by:   Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture—activism, blogs, art, photography, literature, and performance—provide important and generative sites for both contesting austerity politics and imagining book engages various cultural flashpoints, including the spectacle surrounding the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 3/5(1).

Synopsis Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of Crip times book in an age of austerity, or “crip times.”Author: Robert Mcruer.

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"A brilliant, ambitious, and wide-ranging book, Crip Times reveals the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity politics.

McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling theoretical architectures with which to move forward.". "A brilliant, ambitious, and wide-ranging book, Crip Times reveals the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity politics.

McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling theoretical architectures with which to move forward."-Jack Halberstam,author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives "Crip Times demonstrates the hallmarks of Robert McRuer’s Author: Robert McRuer.

Crip Times is a necessary book for our times." * Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability * "Crip Times demonstrates the hallmarks of Robert McRuers scholarship, highlighting his formidable skills as a writer and theorist.

Weve needed a text like Crip Times to unpack the cultural logics of neoliberalism as it attends to disability and 3/5(1). Get this from a library. Crip times: disability, globalization, and resistance.

[Robert McRuer] -- Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant. Robert McRuer’s latest book, Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance tracks how the harmful effects of globalization strip people with disabilities of social safety nets that can offer them sustainable living.

In his book, he explores disability through close readings of art and media that depict true events, all framed within. In his new book Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance, Robert McRuer offers his notion of "crip time" as an analytic through which we may critique the spatio-temporalities of austerity, late capitalism, and the cultural logic of neoliberalism.

McRuer’s position is that disability is at the core of a global politics of austerity and of neoliberalism. Robert McRuer’s book Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance, published by New York University Press in The book features Figures heavily in its discussion of the political and economic shifts of the last several decades and how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist theFile Size: 4MB.

Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture-activism, blogs, art, photography, literature, and performance-provide important and generative sites for both contesting austerity politics and imagining alternatives.

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It refuses a fantasy of normalcy measured by either-in-or-out thresholds, demands care that exceeds that which the nuclear family unit can provide, and hints at. New from NYU Press: Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance by Robert McRuer. About the book, from the publisher: Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics.

Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change Author: Marshal Zeringue. ""A brilliant, ambitious, and wide-ranging book, Crip Times reveals the centrality of notions of disability to global austerity politics.

McRuer has crafted new, original, and dazzling theoretical architectures with which to move forward.""-Jack Halberstam,author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives ""Crip Times demonstrates the hallmarks of Robert McRuer’s Author: Robert McRuer.

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