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Overview“Disability is not our worst-case scenario – our worst-case scenario would be its annihilation.” This is the starting point for this powerful collection of writing by and about Catherine Frazee, disability activist, Officer of the Order of Canada, and poetic scholar of justice. For Frazee, disability is not something to be dreaded or overcome but a force to be reckoned with – a prism of insight and experience that refracts new light upon our fundamental ideals of justice, beauty, and community. Catherine Frazee has been a central figure in the disability rights landscape in Canada for decades. Her reasoned and passionate insights are topical and often ahead of their time. Always bold, always progressive, and frequently provocative, Frazee’s work presents an unwavering, fierce commitment to engage in public debate from a position that centres the lives of disabled people. Taken together, these writings chronicle the rising consciousness of a social movement of disabled people staking their claim in public policy and popular culture, a claim that is overdue for honest recognition. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine Frazee , Christine Kelly , Michael OrsiniPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780774868686ISBN 10: 0774868686 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 31 July 2023 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword / Kathryn Church and Melanie Panitch Preface: About Disabled Country / Catherine Frazee Introduction / Christine Kelly and Michael Orsini Refusing Extinction Introduction / Harvey Chochinov Death in Disabled Country: Declaring Ourselves in the MAiD Debate Under the Microscope: Dissecting Law and Medicine in the Disability Rights Laboratory Disability and Law: Rethinking Paradigms Vigils for Tracy Latimer Vulnerability and Inducement: Locating the Cart and the Horse Disability Studies: The Genetic Counsellor’s Unexpected Guest Lamb Affidavit Disrupting Culture Introduction / Eliza Chandler Art with Attitude Because We Are: Anthem for Disabled Country Kicking the Applecart, Upsetting Culture Absent Presence: Disability in (and out of) the Museum Stelco’s Cabin, a Response Contributing to Culture Out from Under: Two Beginnings Unmaking Vulnerability Introduction / Laverne Jacobs Violence, Disability, and Remembering Courageous States Disability in a Dangerous Time Venom without Malice: On First Meeting a Rattlesnake Separate but Equal, Isn’t Activism Works Why Monsters Matter: Portrait of the Activist as a Young Monster Conclusion: An Interview with Catherine Frazee / Michael Orsini and Christine Kelly Notes; References; IndexReviewsFrazee's work makes an important contribution to Canadian public discourse, not only in issues connected to disability, law, and the arts, but to bigger human concerns such as empathy, vulnerability, and connection. It is essential reading for all Canadians. -- Madeline Burghardt, author of Broken: Institutions, Families and the Construction of Intellectual Disability Catherine Frazee's valuable writings are finally available in one place. Dispatches from Disabled Country adds to our knowledge of the intersectional nature of disability. This long-awaited book is highly readable and truly unique. -- Michelle Owen, co-editor of Dissonant Disabilities: Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives Words are Catherine Frazee's close companions, the beloved tools of her craft, the instrument of her analysis, the energy of her activism in the struggle for disability justice ... The power of Dispatches from Disabled Country lies not just in what gets said: the topics selected, the values espoused, the arguments made, and the positions taken. Power lies, as well, in how Catherine says it: the cart and the horse; the unexpected guests; the rattlesnake and the venom; the monsters that matter; the danger and the courage. -- From the foreword by Kathryn Church and Melanie Panitch Author InformationCatherine Frazee is a professor emerita at Toronto Metropolitan University, where, prior to her retirement in 2010, she served as a professor of distinction and codirector of the Ryerson RBC Foundation Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education. She also acted as the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1992. She has provided expert testimony before Federal and Superior Courts on human rights and disability disadvantage and has contributed actively in Supreme Court of Canada interventions of strategic concern to disabled Canadians, most recently regarding the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Frazee has written extensively on human rights, precarious citizenship, and the activist resistance of disabled people. Dr. Frazee has received honorary degrees from Carleton University, Dalhousie University, the University of New Brunswick, and McMaster University. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2014 for “her advancement of the rights of persons with disabilities, and as an advocate for social justice.” Christine Kelly is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Michael Orsini is a full professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Contributors: Eliza Chandler, Harvey Chochinov, Kathryn Church, Laverne Jacobs, Christine Kelly, Michael Orsini, and Melanie Panitch Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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