{"product_id":"the-capacity-contract-intellectual-disability-and-the-question-of-citizenship-paperback-softback-9780816694037","title":"The Capacity Contract; Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816694037","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Capacity Contract\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIntellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStacy Clifford Simplican (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816694037\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.246 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Capacity Contract \u003c\/i\u003ebrings much-needed insights to both political theory and disability studies. Its original analysis calls for the fuller recognition of the contributions of the intellectually disabled and their social inclusion as citizens.\"-Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Most political theorists would agree with Rawls that citizens need to possess cognitive capacities ‘within some normal range,’ but Stacy Clifford Simplican argues that such a ‘capacity contract’ is wrong. She provokes us to disrupt these norms.\"-Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A very interesting read.\"-\u003ci\u003eCatholic Medical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Simplican presents a rich analysis of the role of capacity in classic political philosophy and offers a significant contribution to the field. \"-\u003ci\u003eDisability Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Capacity Contract\u003c\/i\u003e should be required reading not just for political theorists but for everybody conscientious about being alerted to unconscious patterns of bias and exclusion in their everyday lives and practices.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Review of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, \u003ci\u003eThe Capacity Contract\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses systems of domination based on race, sex, and gender. She exposes how democratic theory and politics have long blocked from political citizenship anyone whose cognitive capacity falls below a threshold level⎯marginalization with real-world repercussions on the implementation of disability rights today. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimplican’s compelling ethnographic analysis of the self-advocacy movement describes the obstacles it faces. From the outside, the movement must confront stiff budget cuts and dwindling memberships; internally, self-advocates must find ways to demand political standing without reinforcing entrenched stigma against people with profound cognitive disabilities. And yet Simplican’s investigation also offers democratic theorists and disability activists a more emancipatory vision of democracy as it relates to disability⎯one that focuses on enabling people to engage in public and spontaneous action to disrupt exclusion and stigma. \u003cbr\u003eTaking seriously democratic promises of equality and inclusion, \u003ci\u003eThe Capacity Contract\u003c\/i\u003e rejects conceptions of political citizenship that privilege cognitive capacity and, instead, centers such citizenship on action that is accessible to all people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Anxiety, Democracy, and Disability\u003cbr\u003e1. Locke’s Capacity Contract and the Construction of Idiocy\u003cbr\u003e2. Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect\u003cbr\u003e3. The Disavowal of Disability in Contemporary Contract Theory\u003cbr\u003e4. Rethinking Political Agency: Arendt and the Self-Advocacy Movement\u003cbr\u003e5. Self-Advocates and Allies Becoming Empowered\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670839816472,"sku":"9780816694037","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-capacity-contract-intellectual-disability-and-the-question-of-citizenship-paperback-softback-9780816694037","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}