2022
DOI: 10.14506/ca37.1.10
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From Hoping to Expecting: Cochlear Implantation and Habilitation in India

Abstract: While scholars have attended to disability as a new normal that is increasingly present as a category and experience in public spheres, this essay argues that technologies such as cochlear implants and accompanying therapeutics make it possible for children to “become normal.” Parents come to expect, rather than hope, that interventions will work. An analysis of habilitating children with cochlear implants in India—and habilitation as a process and practice in general—foregrounds the ways that potentiality att… Show more

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