List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

01 Introduction

Backhausen, Elena / Kreuser, Mirjam / Wihstutz, Benjamin

Part I: Performing and Competing

02 Being tethered in a network of interdependencies – Non-human entities in

visually impaired sports performances constituting subjectivity

Backhausen, Elena

03 Climbing for independence: Mount Kilimanjaro as a symbolic site of

albinism performance

Krings, Matthias

04 Age and/as Disability: Johnny Cash in Isolation

Gehrmann, Ruth

Part II: Strategies and Workarounds

05 Voodling, Camérer: Image is a(n Autistic) Verb

Dind, Julie

06 One for Sorrow, Two for Joy: Cultural patterns of obsessive reality

construction and a performative model for mental distress

Kreuser, Mirjam

07 Deaf Gaming: Performance between autonomy and collectivity in online

gamer communities

Ochsner, Beate/ Spöhrer, Markus

Part III: Care and Community

08 Sexual Independence as Collective Performance in Sex Education and

Assistance for Disabled People

Boll, Tobias/ Brunnengräber, Miriam

09 Care, Community, and Contingencies: Artistic Practice Rooted in Access

Mühlemann, Nina

10 Discipline – Control – Care. On the History of Spectatorship

Wihstutz, Benjamin

Part IV: Politics and Policies

11 ‘We travel together in an untogether way’: independence and collectivity in

learning disabled theatre

McCaffrey, Tony

12 Questioning independence and inclusion: the thoughts of a performer with

differentiated body

Monteiro, Felipe

13 Collectivity and crip resistance practice at the cultural center Sjiraffen in

Trondheim, Norway

Glørstad, Vibeke

14 Outline for a disability critique property

Gissen, David

Index