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Sensory Futures
2022
Overview
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.\"
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press,University of Minnesota
Subject
ISBN
9781517912130, 151791213X, 1517912121, 9781517912123
