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Disability Goes Cultural: The Cultural Model of Disability as an Analytical Tool -- The Sounds of Disability: A Cultural Studies Perspective -- The Ghettoization of Disability: Paradoxes of Visibility and Invisibility in Cinema -- Building a World with Disability in It -- No Future for Crips: Disorderly Conduct in the New World Order; or, Disability Studies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- Dis/entangling Critical Disability Studies -- Responses to Dan Goodley -- Disability, Pain, and the Politics of Minority Identity -- Responses to Tobin Siebers -- Border Crossings: The Technologies of Disability and Desire -- Responses to Margrit Shildrick -- Superhumans-Parahumans: Disability and Hightech in Competitive Sports -- Responses to Karin Harrasser -- Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh -- Responses to Ria Cheyne -- The Inarticulate Post-Socialist Crip: On the Cruel Optimism of Neoliberal Transformations in the Czech Republic -- Responses to Kateřina Kolářová