TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedner,Michele Ilana
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Sensory Futures : : Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India / 
SN  - 9781452967202
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota
KW  - Deaf children
KW  - India
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Cochlear implants
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Deafness
KW  - Assimilation (Sociology)
KW  - Sociology of disability
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction: Sensory, modal, and relational narrowing through cochlear implants -- Disability camps and surgical celebrations : Indian disability interventions and the creation of complex dependencies -- Becoming unisensory : creating a child's social sense through auditory verbal therapy and total communication -- Mothers' work : intersensing and learning to talk like a cricket commentator -- (Non-)use : maintaining devices, relationships, and senses -- Becoming normal : potentiality beyond passing -- Conclusion. Beyond the bad S : making space for sensory unruliness; Open Access
N2  - "Sensory Futures explores deaf people's desires to create habitable worlds, grappling with their futures amid a surge in 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 biotechnological and social "cures" offer"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/101002/
ER  -