Main description:

Locates social attitudes towards blindness in a personal and cultural landscape.
Is interdisciplinary in its crossing of lines among education, the humanities, and the social sciences.
Includes case-studies from Canada, Cyprus, India, Indonesia, Italy, Poland, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, South America, and Spain.

Contents:

Introduction: Cultural Stations of Blindness: From Ignorance to Understandings. Part 1: The Directions and Redirections of Education: Critical Spaces and Events. 1. Affective Possibilities of Everyday Encounters with Blindness. 2. From PowerPoint to Zoom: Interrogating the Gaze in Teaching at a Small South African University. 3. Blindness as a Social Construct in Cyprus: What Can We Learn from Cultural Events and Artefacts Aiming to Claim Rights, Celebrate, or Prevent Blindness?. 4. The Flag, A Rap and The Ethnographer: Looking for 'Indianness' within Visual Impairment. 5. Blind Student as a Bypassed Reader: Analyzing Blindness in Required Reading for Schools in Poland. Part II: The Blind Reading the Blind: Politics and Religion. 6. From World War to Social Integration and Beyond: Experiences of Blindness in Twentieth-Century Italy. 7. A State of Spiritual Derangement: Blindness in Seventh-day Adventist Theology, 1860s-1950s. 8. Faith Healing and Blindness Across Cultures: Disability, Religion, and the Scientific Milieu. 9. The Acceptance and Transcendence of Blindness: A Collaborative Autoethnography. 10. Encountering the Myth, Transforming Utopian Realities of Blindness: Counter Narrative Notes on Intersectional Interdependence and Critical Hermeneutics. 11. Crip Gazes: Eye Mutilations and the 'Biopolitics of Debilitation' in Lina Meruane and Nicole Kramm. Part III: Stage and the Page: Performance, Dramatics, and Literary Representation. 12. Sighted-Blindness-Consultants and the Ever-Lasting Station of Blindness. 13. Touching the Rock: Masculinity and Macular Degeneration. 14. Bringing a Brick to Market: Pedagogical Perspectives on the Discordant Interplay between Critical and Cultural Stations of Blindness. 15. To Boldly Go Where No One (Sighted) has Gone Before: Positive Portrayals of Blindness in Star Trek: TNG and H. G. Wells's 'The Country of the Blind'. 16. Revisiting Ruins of Blindness: A Sketched Out Silhouette.