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Disability Worlds CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY T HE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES DI SABILITY WORLDS V FAYE GINSBURG AND RAYNA RAPP, GUEST EDITORS OLUME 61 D isability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human The Politics of Disability Performativity: An Autoethnography FEBRUARY 2020 FEBRUARY 2020 VOLUME SUPPLEMENT 61 21 S Disability Expertise: Claiming Disability Anthropology UPPLEMENT 21 Disability, Anonymous Love, and Interworldly Socials in Urban India Kinship Destabilized! Disability and the Micropolitics of Care in Urban India Autism, “Stigma,” Disability: A Shifting Historical Terrain F EBRUARY 2020 Activism, Anthropology, and Disability Studies in Times of Austerity: In Collaboration with Sini Diallo Prosthetic Debts: Economies of War Disability in Neoliberal Turkey Torture without Torturers: Violence and Racialization in Black Chicago People as Affordances: Building Disability Worlds through Care Intimacy The Ability of Place: Digital Topographies of the Virtual Human on Ethnographia Island The Skilling Journey: Disability, Technology, and Sociality in Postconflict Northern Uganda In the Long Run: Ugandans Living with Disability C H ICAGO SPON SORED BY THE WENNER-GREN FOUNDATION FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY Wenner-Gren Symposium Series Editor: Danilyn Rutherford Wenner-Gren Symposium Series Managing Editor: Laurie Obbink Current Anthropology Editor: Laurence Ralph Current Anthropology Managing Editor: Lisa McKamy Book Reviews Editor: Heath Pearson Associate Editors: Sheela Athreya (Texas A&M University), Aisha Beliso-De Jesús (Princeton University), Maureen Marshall (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kevin O’Neill (University of Toronto), Juno Salazar Parreñas (Ohio State Uni- versity), Ventura Pérez (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Michael Ralph (New York University), Jonathan Rosa (Stanford University), Gilberto Rosas (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tina Shrestha (Waseda University), Eitan Wilf (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Corresponding Editors: Omolade Adunbi (University of Michigan), Jaime Amparo Alves (City University of New York), Shara Bailey (New York University), Lucas Bessire (University of Oklahoma), David Bond (Bennington College), Kerry Chance (Uni- versity of Bergen), Lily Chumley (New York University), Aimee Cox (Yale University), Anne de Sales (French National Centre for Scientific Research; University of Paris Ouest Nanterre), Rowan Flad (Harvard University), Nicholas Harkness (Harvard University), Stefan Helmreich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ryan Jobson (University of Chicago), Chelsey Kivland (Dartmouth College), Michalis Kontopodis (University of Leeds), Nedra Lee (University of Massachusetts, Boston), Kathryn Mariner (University of Rochester), Siobhán Mattison (University of New Mexico), Marina Mikhaylova (Temple University), Amy Moran-Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Constantine Nakassis (University of Chicago), Caela O’Connell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), David Palmer (University of Hong Kong), Tobias Rees (New School of Social Research, Berggruen Institute), Akiko Takeyama (University of Kansas), Paula Skye Tallman (Field Museum of Natural History), Christien Tompkins (Rutgers University), Christian Tryon (Harvard University), Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa (University of Alicante), Meredith Welch-Devine (University of Georgia), Zhang Yinong (Shanghai University) Current Anthropology (issn 0011-3204) is published bimonthly in February, April, June, August, October, and December by The University of Chicago Press, 1427 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-2954. 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THE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES Disability Worlds Guest Editors: Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp Disability Worlds: Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 21 S1 Danilyn Rutherford Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human An Introduction to Supplement 21 S4 Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp The Politics of Disability Performativity: An Autoethnography S16 Devva Kasnitz Disability Expertise: Claiming Disability Anthropology S26 Cassandra Hartblay Disability, Anonymous Love, and Interworldly Socials in Urban India S37 Michele Friedner Kinship Destabilized! Disability and the Micropolitics of Care in FEBRUARY 2020 FEBRUARY 2020 VOLUME SUPPLEMENT 61 21 Urban India S46 Renu Addlakha Autism, “Stigma,” Disability: A Shifting Historical Terrain S55 Roy Richard Grinker Activism, Anthropology, and Disability Studies in Times of Austerity : In Collaboration with Sini Diallo S68 Pamela Block Prosthetic Debts: Economies of War Disability in Neoliberal Turkey S76 Salih Can Açıksöz Torture without Torturers: Violence and Racialization in Black Chicago S87 Laurence Ralph People as Affordances: Building Disability Worlds through Care Intimacy S97 Arseli Dokumaci The Ability of Place: Digital Topographies of the Virtual Human on Ethnographia Island S109 Tom Boellstorff The Skilling Journey: Disability, Technology, and Sociality in Postconflict Northern Uganda S123 Herbert Muyinda In the Long Run: Ugandans Living with Disability S132 Susan Reynolds Whyte CURRENT CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA Disability Worlds Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 21 Danilyn Rutherford When we take disability into account, nothing seems the same. imagination by disabled people and those close to them; “af- The cobblestones in the driveway leading to the palace in Por- fordances,” the tools disabled people conjure into existence tugal, where Wenner-Gren has held so many of its symposia. from the people and things in their environment to create The speed, volume, and cadence with which the participants in the conditions for livability; and “expertise”—disability ex- these discussions spoke to one another. Whether they turned to pertise—that set of skills disabled people develop to accom- face their interlocutors, or not. The embodied biases of their plish these acts of worlding in the face of ableism, racism, global metaphors. All those times they referred to “perspectives,” capitalism, colonialism, and war. Some participants brought a “gazes,” and “points of view.” Anthropology is supposed to be comparative approach to the discussion. Patrick Devlieger drew the discipline that makes room for difference. But the spaces on his pathbreaking research to examine the links between we have created have often been cramped and inhospitable, disability, modernity, and the human around the globe. Ayo wrongly configured for the work we aspire to do. Wahlberg explored the temporality involved in living with dif- From March 9 to 15, 2018, at the Hacienda del Sol Guest ferent varieties of chronic disease. Other participants wove Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, the Wenner-Gren Foundation hosted broad themes through closely observed details: Arseli Doku- a symposium that brought together 17 scholars from seven maci’s observation of the resignation with which an old man in a countries around the world (fig. 1). Their goal was to investi- wheelchair
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