Citizenship Inclusion And Intellectual Disability

Author : Niklas Altermark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351614597

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Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability by Niklas Altermark Pdf

What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made ‘citizenship inclusion’ their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy, social theory, and disability studies, this book untangles the current state of Western intellectual disability politics following the replacement of state institutionalisation by independent and supported living, individual rights, and self-determination. Taking its cue from Foucault’s conception of ‘biopolitics’, denoting the government of the individuals and the totality of the population, its overarching argument is that the ambiguous positioning of people with intellectual disabilities with respect to the ideals of citizenship results in a regime of government that simultaneously includes and excludes people of this group. On the one hand, its members are projected to become ideal-citizens via the cultivation of citizenship capacities. On the other, the right to live independently and by their own choices is curtailed as soon as they are seen as failing with respect to the ideals of reason and rationality. Therefore, coercion, restraints, and paternalism, which were all supposed to end with deinstitutionalisation, are still ingrained in services targeting the group. In equal parts a theoretical work, advancing debates of critical disability theory, social theory, and post-structural philosophy, as well as an empirical engagement with the history of intellectual disability politics and the ways in which present day politics target the group, this book will be of interest to all students and scholars of disability studies, disability politics, and political theory.

Author : Stacy Clifford Simplican
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452944234

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The Capacity Contract by Stacy Clifford Simplican Pdf

In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses systems of domination based on race, sex, and gender. She exposes how democratic theory and politics have long blocked from political citizenship anyone whose cognitive capacity falls below a threshold level⎯marginalization with real-world repercussions on the implementation of disability rights today. Simplican’s compelling ethnographic analysis of the self-advocacy movement describes the obstacles it faces. From the outside, the movement must confront stiff budget cuts and dwindling memberships; internally, self-advocates must find ways to demand political standing without reinforcing entrenched stigma against people with profound cognitive disabilities. And yet Simplican’s investigation also offers democratic theorists and disability activists a more emancipatory vision of democracy as it relates to disability⎯one that focuses on enabling people to engage in public and spontaneous action to disrupt exclusion and stigma. Taking seriously democratic promises of equality and inclusion, The Capacity Contract rejects conceptions of political citizenship that privilege cognitive capacity and, instead, centers such citizenship on action that is accessible to all people.

Author : Brian Watermeyer,Judith McKenzie,Leslie Swartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319746753

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The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South by Brian Watermeyer,Judith McKenzie,Leslie Swartz Pdf

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing disability-based inequality in wealthier nations, have vastly different ramifications in societies of the Global South, where resources for development are limited, democratic processes may be uncertain, and access to education, health, transport and other key services cannot be taken for granted. In a broad range of areas relevant to disability equity and transformation, an eclectic group of contributors critically consider whether, when and how citizenship may be used as a lever of change in circumstances far removed from UN boardrooms in New York or Geneva. Debate is polyvocal, with voices from the South engaging with those from the North, disabled people with nondisabled, and activists and politicians intersecting with researchers and theoreticians. Along the way, accepted wisdoms on a host of issues in disability and international development are enriched and problematized. The volume explores what life for disabled people in low and middle income countries tells us about subjects such as identity and intersectionality, labour and the global market, family life and intimate relationships, migration, climate change, access to the digital world, participation in sport and the performing arts, and much else.

Author : Simon Darcy,Jerome F. Singleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317608240

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'Cultural Life', Disability, Inclusion and Citizenship by Simon Darcy,Jerome F. Singleton Pdf

Disability is a complex multidimensional social construct where the type of disability and the level of support of individuals needs to be considered within leisure provision. In a leisure context, people with a disability often face a multitude of constraints to participation. However, when leisure is possible, the benefits are substantial and worth pursuing. While other marginalised populations have received a great deal of attention across disciplines and in the field of leisure and recreation, disability has received comparatively less attention and generally in isolation to the leisure context. This book concentrates on "disability citizenship in leisure". The chapters focus on examining the leisure lives of people with different types of disability by supporting their leisure endeavours through innovations in technology, service provision and the imagination. Each chapter has a different social setting, involves different groups of people with disability, and challenges conventional wisdom about what is possible when ability is seen, nurtured and, then, flourishing with the opportunities provided. Rather than leisure being seen in isolation, the context of this book explores leisure as part of everyday lives through valuing Management issues that centre on constraints to sport participation, supply side attributes, participant behaviours, consumption of disability sport, policy implementation, and sponsor congruence. We situate the book in the context of further challenging researchers to think beyond disability as a context in their research and engagement of the person as a citizen in leisure opportunities, as opposed to a disability. This book was published as a special issue of Annals of Leisure Research.

Author : Simon Duffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 0954306821

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Keys to Citizenship by Simon Duffy Pdf

A guide to getting good support services for people with learning difficulties.

Author : Andrew Power,Janet Lord,Allison DeFranco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139851985

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Active Citizenship and Disability by Andrew Power,Janet Lord,Allison DeFranco Pdf

This book provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation. It explores how these principles have been enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how different jurisdictions have implemented them to enable meaningful engagement and participation by persons with disabilities in society. The philosophy of 'active citizenship' underpinning the Convention - that all citizens should (be able to) actively participate in the community - provides the core focal point of this book, which grounds its analysis in exploring how this goal has been imagined and implemented across a range of countries. The case studies examine how different jurisdictions have reformed disability law and policy and reconfigured how support is administered and funded to ensure maximum choice and independence is accorded to people with disabilities.

Author : Allison C. Carey
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781592136988

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On the Margins of Citizenship by Allison C. Carey Pdf

A sociological history of the fight for civil rights for people with intellectual disabilities. Allison Carey develops a relational practice approach to the issues of intellectual disability & civil rights, looking at how advocacy has progressed over the course of the past century.

Author : Rhonda G. Craven,Alexandre J. S. Morin,Danielle Tracey,Philip D. Parker,Hua Flora Zhong
Publisher : IAP
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681230009

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Inclusive Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities by Rhonda G. Craven,Alexandre J. S. Morin,Danielle Tracey,Philip D. Parker,Hua Flora Zhong Pdf

As a social justice endeavor, one of the goals of inclusive education is to bolster the education of all students by promoting equal opportunities for all, and investing sufficient support, curriculum and pedagogy that cultivates high self-concepts, emphasizes students’ strengths rather than weaknesses, and assists students to reach their optimal potential to make a contribution to society. Dedicated to the identification of international strategies to achieve this goal, Inclusive Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities presents examples of theory, research, policy, and practice that will advance our understanding of how best to educate and more generally structure educational environments to promote social justice and equity. Importantly, this discussion transcends research methodology, context, and geographical locations and may lead to far-reaching applications. As such, the focus is placed on research-derived educational and psycho-educative practices that seed success for students with intellectual disabilities in inclusive educational settings and the volume showcases new directions in theory, research, and practice that may inform the education and psychosocial development of students with intellectual disabilities globally. The chapter contributors in this volume consist of 31 scholars from ten different countries, and they come from a great variety of research areas (i.e., teacher education, educational psychology, special education and disability policy, special needs and inclusive education, health sciences). This volume, with a series of subsections, offers insights and useful strategies to promote meaningful advances for students with intellectual disabilities globally.

Author : Cameron Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1897292031

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People with Learning Difficulties by Cameron Crawford Pdf

Author : David P. Treanor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811370564

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Intellectual Disability and Social Policies of Inclusion by David P. Treanor Pdf

This book explores why, after forty years of funded policies of social inclusion, persons living with an intellectual disability are still separated from the social fabric of neoliberal societies. David Treanor shows how the nature of the reform process is driven unnecessarily by the economic neoliberal paradigm, the cultural misconceptions of intellectual disability, and the inattention accorded to personal relationships between persons living with and without an intellectual disability. Treanor utilizes John Macmurray’s personalist philosophy, Julia Kristeva’s ontology of disability and Michele Foucault’s concept of bio-power to explain this phenomenon. The concepts in this book challenge current approaches to social inclusion and have radical implications for future practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004394551

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People with Intellectual Disability Experiencing University Life by Anonim Pdf

This book will introduce the reader to international perspectives associated with post-secondary school education for students with intellectual disability attending university settings.

Author : Marie Sépulchre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000175905

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Disability and Citizenship Studies by Marie Sépulchre Pdf

Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality. Bringing together disability and citizenship studies, it explores an original conceptualisation of disability as a distinct social division and approaches citizenship as a developing institution. In addition to providing innovative theoretical perspectives on citizenship and disability, this book is grounded in the empirical analysis of the claims of disability activists in Sweden. Drawing on a wide range of blog posts and debate articles, it sheds light upon the inequality and domination faced by disabled people in Sweden and underlines the disability activists’ proactive ideas and solutions for constructing a more equal citizenship. This book will be of interest to scholars, activists and policymakers in the fields of disability, citizenship, social inequality, human rights, politics, activism, social welfare and sociology.

Author : Melanie Nind
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350188792

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Inclusive Research by Melanie Nind Pdf

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Inclusive Research?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book describes and defines inclusive research, outlining how to recognize it, understand it, do it, and know when it is done well. In doing so it addresses the areas of overlap and distinctiveness in relation to participatory, emancipatory, user-led and partnership research as well as exploring the various practices encompassed within each of these inclusive approaches. The author, Melanie Nind, focuses on how and why more inclusive approaches to research have evolved. She positions inclusive research within the key debates and shifts in policy, defines key ideas and terms, discusses the contested nature of inclusive research and illustrates a range of approaches using exemplars. The aim is to discuss the range of challenges involved and to examine the degree to which these challenges have so far been met.

Author : Inger Marie Lid,Edward Steinfeld,Michael Rembis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000900286

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Rethinking Disability and Human Rights by Inger Marie Lid,Edward Steinfeld,Michael Rembis Pdf

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy. The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on citizenship, which poses challenges for contemporary societies that will become ever greater as the science and technology of enhancing human abilities evolves. Comprised of eight chapters, three interludes, and a postscript written by leading scholars and disability rights activists, the book explores citizenship for people with disabilities from an interdisciplinary perspective using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a point of departure and the concept of universal design as a strategy for actualizing full citizenship for all. Situating disability in its historical and cultural contexts, the authors offer directions for rethinking citizenship, including implications for access to the built environment, information and communication systems, education, work, community life and politics. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students working in disability studies, planning, architecture, public health, rehabilitation, social work, and education.

Author : Liz Tilly,Jan Walmsley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9819955629

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Rights in Practice for People with a Learning Disability by Liz Tilly,Jan Walmsley Pdf

This book aims to raise awareness about the possibility of achieving the goals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), in order for all disabled people to enjoy the benefit of human rights. The stories of people who have been supported to enjoy their rights and their citizenship will enable readers to focus on how services and support can enable people with a learning disability to have their rights upheld, with an outcome of citizenship, independence and achievement. Despite the UNCRDP being in place since 2006, a significant number of learning disability service provider organisations and professionals in the UK are not aware of its existence. This book aims to bridge the gap between policy and practice to demonstrate the value of a human rights approach as the foundation for services and support for people with a learning disability.