Description: Sensory Futures : Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India, Hardcover by Friedner, Michele Ilana, ISBN 1517912121, ISBN-13 9781517912123, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical markets What happens when cochlear implants, heralded as the first successful bionic technologies, make their way around the globe and are provided by both states and growing private markets? As Sensory Futures follows these implants from development to domestication and their unequal distribution in India, Michele Ilana Friedner explores biotechnical intervention in the realm of disability and its implications for state politics in the Global South. A signing and speaking deaf bilateral cochlear implant user, Friedner weaves personal reflections into this fine-grained ethnography of everyday negotiations, activist aspirations, and the space of the family. She places sensory anthropology in conversation with disability studies to analyze how normative sensoria are cultivated and the pursuit of listening and speaking capability is enacted. She argues that the conditions of potentiality that have emerged through cochlear implantation have, in fact, resulted in ever narrower understandings of future life possibilities. Rejecting sensory hierarchies that privilege audition, Friedner calls for multisensory, multimodal, and multipersonal ways of relating to the world. Sensory Futures explores deaf people’s desires to create habitable worlds and grapple with what their futures might look like, in India and beyond, amid a surge in both biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism. With implications for a broad range of disability experiences, this sensitive, in-depth research focuses on the specific experiences of deaf people, both children and adults, and the structural, political, and social possibilities offered by both biotechnological and social “cures.”
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Book Title: Sensory Futures : Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures i
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Sensory Futures : Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Sociology / General, People with Disabilities, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science
Author: Michele Ilana Friedner
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
