Convenient Discrimination

Nyhet

Crips, Queers, and Other Misfits

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

1 869 kr

Kommande

While social oppression is typically framed in terms of prejudice and hate, D. Travers Scott contends that discrimination against marginalized groups is often rooted in a shockingly banal perspective: they simply get in the way. Focusing primarily on disabled persons and queer persons in addition to other marginalized demographics including non-Christians and the aged, this book draws on histories and discourses of industrialization, technology, and modernist ideals of efficiency to propose a theory of discriminatory convenience.Convenient Discrimination places representations of queerness and disability in media texts ranging from Appalachian folk songs to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) within the context of both historic and contemporary discussions surrounding health, media, technology, and social movements to form a variety of compelling case studies. These analyses are further bolstered by Scott’s own autoethnographic accounts as a queer, formerly disabled activist-scholar. This book skillfully combines media studies and archival research to articulate a nuanced cultural politics of convenient discrimination, ultimately demonstrating the utility of inconvenience as an analytic.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-08-06
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781666960198

Tillhör följande kategorier

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Counting in the Ivory Tower 1. Toward a Theory of Convenience: A Special Interest in Entanglements 2. Charles Guiteau, Criminal Insanity, and Intra-actions of Directional Convenience 3. The Convenient Solution of Electroshock: Efficacy and Functional Pleasures of Accomplishment 4. Inconvenient Populations: GenX, ‘Trainables,’ and Olds5. Rehabilitation Skepticism: The Cinematic Imaginary of Mark Bingham, the Refusal of Franklin Hardesty6. Inconvenience Gain: Three Examples from The Great Inconvenience Bibliography About the AuthorIndex

Convenient Discrimination offers a thoughtful and timely investigation into the unconscious discourses – convenience chief among them – that perpetuate discrimination in the 21st century. D. Travers Scott asks us to challenge our reliance on discourses of convenience and examine the racism, ableism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of hate it so often masks. Ranging in subject matter from film to autoethnography to US presidential history, Scott reaches surprising conclusions, asking new and provocative questions about how convenience functions in our rancorous, divided culture.