Youth and Disability

Jenny Slater is Lecturer in Education and Disability Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

• Introduction Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 1 Disabled People in (Neo)liberal Times (or, Disability as Unreasonable); Chapter 2 Youth as Border Zone, Disability and Disposability (or, Challenging Youth as Becoming-Reasonable Adult); Chapter 3 The Making of Un/Reasonable Bodies at the Border Zone of Youth; Chapter 4 From Adulthood Independence to Continuing Relational Autonomy; Chapter 5 Negotiating Space and Constituting ‘Problems’: Access at the Border Zone of Youth; Chapter 6 Dis/abled Youth, Bodies, Femininity and Sexuality:Having Difficult Conversations; Chapter 7 The Limits of ‘Sameness’: Goodbye Mr Reasonable;

’With this book Slater announces herself as a rising star of critical disability studies. This impassioned, politicised and engaged text alerts us to the possibilities that emerge for reimagining the human at the intersections of dis/ability and youth. Written with verve, humour and accountability, Slater illustrates that critical scholarship can be both theoretical and biographical in equal measure. A wonderful book.’ Dan Goodley, University of Sheffield, UK ’Jenny Slater goes straight to the heart of the matter to interrogate the unreasonability" of reasonable" neo-liberal discourses that enact violence against disabled youth. Slater writes lucidly linking theory with first person accounts by disabled youth and with her own insightful reflections to foreground ableism masquerading as a reasonable" discourse at the intersections of race, class, gender identity, and sexuality.’ Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama, USA