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Author:   Cassandra Hartblay
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781487588403

ISBN 10:   1487588402
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   07 October 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

About This Book Foreword Play Script Cast of Characters Setting Time  Portrait I: Vera Portrait II: Vakas Portrait III: Alina Portrait IV: Sergei Portrait V: Rudak Portrait VI: Anya Photos Ethnographer’s Essay: Rituals of Vulnerability Introduction Background a. Words for Disability b. Disability in Russia c. Defining Performance Ethnography d. Performance Ethnography and/in Anthropology Staging Disability: Interdependency and Crip Time Making I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: Origins and Writing Process Representing Russia on the North American Stage Making I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: Casting and Rehearsing Access: Disability Theatre in Practice Conclusion Afterword Appendix 1: Performance Ethnography Exercises Appendix 2: Disability Terminology Appendix 3: Russian and Soviet Historical References Appendix 4: Suggestions for Reading this Work in the Classroom Appendix 5: Prop List and Dramaturgical Note Appendix 6: An Ethic of Accommodation Appendix 7: Glossary and Pronunciation of Russian Words

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"""Cassandra Hartblay's I Was Never Alone is among the most important publications in disability studies that attends to the multiple and contested meanings of disability and impairment in a specific location. Hartblay's ethnography of disability in northeastern Russia encourages us to interpret the social and built environment around us in critical and generative ways; the limitations as well as the potential that she traces in the region should encourage all readers to imagine new, varied, and critically crip futures.""--Robert McRuer, George Washington University ""I Was Never Alone showcases the power of performance ethnography to rise up to anthropology's greatest challenges: to co-produce ethnographic knowledge that is non-extractive, collaborative, relevant, effective, responsible, and just. This is a wonderful book that joins the growing field of experimental and multimodal anthropology; it is compelling, accessible, teachable, and world-opening as it moves across genres of representation and engagement, including ethnographic argumentation, play script, field notes, photographs, and classroom exercises. We see not only what it means to 'crip theater, ' but what it looks like to share power in the production of engaged anthropology.""--Debra Vidali, Emory University ""Located at the intersection of disability studies, performance studies, and cultural anthropology, Casandra Hartblay's I was Never Alone or Oporniki presents a startlingly original approach to what the author labels 'disability expertise.' The book amplifies the collective work of producing creative theater. The voices, theatrical grit, and cultural specificity of people with disabilities in Russia resonate off the page, opening up new channels of understanding and action.""--Rayna Rapp, New York University"

I Was Never Alone showcases the power of performance ethnography to rise up to anthropology's greatest challenges: to co-produce ethnographic knowledge that is non-extractive, collaborative, relevant, effective, responsible, and just. This is a wonderful book that joins the growing field of experimental and multimodal anthropology; it is compelling, accessible, teachable, and world-opening as it moves across genres of representation and engagement, including ethnographic argumentation, play script, field notes, photographs, and classroom exercises. We see not only what it means to 'crip theater, ' but what it looks like to share power in the production of engaged anthropology. - Debra Vidali, Emory University Cassandra Hartblay's I Was Never Alone is among the most important publications in disability studies that attends to the multiple and contested meanings of disability and impairment in a specific location. Hartblay's ethnography of disability in northeastern Russia encourages us to interpret the social and built environment around us in critical and generative ways; the limitations as well as the potential that she traces in the region should encourage all readers to imagine new, varied, and critically crip futures. - Robert McRuer, George Washington University Located at the intersection of disability studies, performance studies, and cultural anthropology, Casandra Hartblay's I was Never Alone or Oporniki presents a startlingly original approach to what the author labels 'disability expertise.' The book amplifies the collective work of producing creative theater. The voices, theatrical grit, and cultural specificity of people with disabilities in Russia resonate off the page, opening up new channels of understanding and action. - Rayna Rapp, New York University

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Cassandra Hartblay is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Health Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

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