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Author : Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Discrimination against people with disabilities
ISBN : 1551527383
An empowering collection of essays on the author's experiences in the disability justice movement.
Author : Dustin Galer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : 1487501315
In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision of social and economic integration. Employment was, and remains, a central component in disabled peoples' efforts to become productive, autonomous and financially secure members of Canadian society. Working towards Equity offers new in-depth analysis on rights activism as it relates to employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization and labour markets in the contemporary context in Canada.
Author : Deborah Stienstra
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552665688
Through a close examination of employment, education, transportation, telecommunications and health care, About Canada: Disability Rights explores the landscape of disability rights in Canada and finds that, while important advances have been made, Canadians with disabilities still experience significant barriers in obtaining their human rights. Using the stories and voices of people with disabilities, Deborah Stienstra argues that disability is not about “faulty” bodies that need to be fixed, but about the institutional, cultural and attitudinal reactions to certain kinds of bodies, and that neoliberal ideas of independence and individualism are at the heart of the continuing discrimination against “disabled” people. Stienstra contends that achieving disability rights is possible, but not through efforts to “fix” certain kinds of bodies. Rather it can be achieved through universal design, disability supports, social and economic supports and belonging — in short, through foundational social transformation of Canadian society.
Author : Al Etmanski
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781523087570
“This book reminds us of what we have in common: the power to create a good life for ourselves and for others, no matter what the world has in store for us.” —Michael J. Fox This book reveals that people with disabilities are the invisible force that has shaped history. They have been instrumental in the growth of freedom and birth of democracy. They have produced heavenly music and exquisite works of art. They have unveiled the scientific secrets of the universe. They are among our most popular comedians, poets, and storytellers. And at 1.2 billion, they are also the largest minority group in the world. Al Etmanski offers ten lessons we can all learn from people with disabilities, illustrated with short, funny, inspiring, and thought-provoking stories of one hundred individuals from twenty countries. Some are familiar, like Michael J. Fox, Greta Thunberg, Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, and Temple Grandin. Others deserve to be, like Evelyn Glennie, a virtuoso percussionist who is deaf—her mission is to teach the world to listen to improve communication and social cohesion. Or Aaron Philip, who has revolutionized the runway as the first disabled, trans woman of color to become a professional model. The time has come to recognize people with disabilities for who they really are: authoritative sources on creativity, love, sexuality, resistance, dealing with adversity, and living a good life.
Author : Jeanette Robertson
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633862
This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family members, researchers, academics and practitioners. This book is an ideal text for students of social work, human services, child and youth care and disability studies. Chapters include first-person accounts from persons with disabilities, perspectives of families and historical perspectives, as well as a critical exploration of demographics, human rights issues, disability legislation and policy in Canada, theoretical approaches to disability, intersectionality and disability, Aboriginal people and disability, mental health disability, principles of anti-ableist practice, advocacy and strategies for change. This book offers as a fresh Canadian perspective on disability from a critical lens, challenging and inspiring students and practitioners alike to think outside the box and to examine their own attitudes and values toward disability, ensuring that they do not inadvertently impose ableist and oppressive practices on one of Canada’s most marginalized populations.
Author : Patrick McKelvey
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781479824861
"Disability Works offers a cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States"--
Author : Hannalora Leavitt
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459819306
People with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as you do for yours. The difference is that PWDs don’t have the same access to education, employment, housing, transportation and healthcare in order to achieve their goals. In The Disability Experience you’ll meet people with different kinds of disabilities, and you'll begin to understand the ways PWDs have been ignored, reviled and marginalized throughout history. The book also celebrates the triumphs and achievements of PWDs and shares the powerful stories of those who have fought for change.
Author : Dustin Galer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487512927
In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century. Using a critical analysis of disability in archival records, personal collections, government publications and a series of interviews, Galer demonstrates how demands for greater access among disabled people for paid employment stimulated the development of a new discourse of disability in Canada. Family advocates helped people living in institutions move out into the community as rehabilitation professionals played an increasingly critical role in the lives of working-age adults with disabilities. Meanwhile, civil rights activists crafted a new consumer-led vision of social and economic integration. Employment was, and remains, a central component in disabled peoples' efforts to become productive, autonomous and financially secure members of Canadian society. Working towards Equity offers new in-depth analysis on rights activism as it relates to employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization and labour markets in the contemporary context in Canada.
Author : Donald Eugene Shrey,Sylvia Riessner,National Institute of Disability Management and Research
Publisher : F[ort Alberni, B.C.] : National Institute of Disability Management and Research
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : CORNELL:31924082800321
Comprises 26 essays which discuss the role of workplace-based disability management programmes in removing barriers to return to work and increasing the labour force participation of persons with disabilities.
Author : A.J. Withers
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773636641
Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the late nineteenth century to the present, introducing the main models of disability theory and politics: eugenics, medicalization, rehabilitation, charity, rights and social and disability justice. A.J. Withers examines when, how and why new categories of disability are created and describes how capitalism benefits from and enforces disabled people’s oppression. Critiquing the currently dominant social model of disability, this book offers an alternative. The radical framework Withers puts forward draws from schools of radical thought, particularly feminism and critical race theory, to emphasize the role of interlocking oppressions in the marginalization of disabled people and the importance of addressing disability both independently and in conjunction with other oppressions. Intertwining theoretical and historical analysis with personal experience, this book is a poignant portrayal of disabled people in Canada and the U.S. — and a call for social and economic justice. This revised and expanded edition includes a new chapter on the rehabilitation model, expands the discussion of eugenics, and adds the context of the growth of the disability justice movement, Black Lives Matter, calls for defunding the police, decolonial and Indigenous land protection struggles, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author : Gonzalo Moreno
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199981212
Hundreds of millions of people with disabilities around the world are out of work or underemployed. This book documents what can be done to improve the employment situation of people with disabilities globally
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264941472
One in seven working-age adults identifies as having a disability in OECD countries, a share that is also substantial and growing among young people (8% in 2019). Many of them are excluded from meaningful work and have low levels of income and social engagement.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264719798
Many people with health problems or disabilities leave the labour market permanently even if they still can and want to work. This can lead to low income and reduced social engagement.
Author : Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551526010
Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home." Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264368316
Across OECD countries, one in seven working-age adults identifies as having a disability. This report proposes policy recommendations to the Irish government to improve the participation of persons with disabilities.
