Disability Worlds

Author : Faye Ginsburg,Rayna Rapp
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478059394

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Disability Worlds by Faye Ginsburg,Rayna Rapp Pdf

In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition and rights. Disability consciousness, they show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions. Chapters consider dilemmas of genetic testing and neuroscientific research, reimagining kinship and community, the challenges of “special education,” and the perils of transitioning from high school. They also highlight the vitality of neurodiversity activism, disability arts, politics, and public culture. Disability Worlds reflects the authors’ anthropological commitments to recognizing the significance of this fundamental form of human difference. Ginsburg and Rapp’s conversations with diverse New Yorkers reveal the bureaucratic constraints and paradoxes established in response to the disability rights movement, as well as the remarkable creativity of disabled people and their allies who are opening pathways into both disability justice and disability futures.

Author : Faye D. Ginsburg,Rayna R. Reiter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Disabilities
ISBN : OCLC:1147104157

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Disability Worlds by Faye D. Ginsburg,Rayna R. Reiter Pdf

Author : Maria Berghs,Tsitsi Chataika,Yahya El-Lahib,Kudakwashe Dube
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351165068

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The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism by Maria Berghs,Tsitsi Chataika,Yahya El-Lahib,Kudakwashe Dube Pdf

The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and what their future needs will be. This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability activism and how activists across the world bring together a wide range of activism tactics and strategies. It also challenges the activist movements, transnational and emancipatory politics, as well as providing future directions for disability activism. With contributions from senior and emerging disability activists, academics, students and practitioners from around the globe, this handbook covers the following broad themes: • Contextualising disability activism in global activism • Neoliberalism and austerity in the global North • Rights, embodied resistance and disability activism • Belonging, identity and values: how to create diverse coalitions for rights • Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces • Social media, support and activism • Campus activism in higher education • Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices • Enabling human rights and policy • Challenges facing disability activism The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism provides disability activists, students, academics, practitioners, development partners and policy makers with an authoritative framework for disability activism.

Author : Benedicte Ingstad,Susan Reynolds Whyte
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0520246160

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Disability in Local and Global Worlds by Benedicte Ingstad,Susan Reynolds Whyte Pdf

Explores the global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a range of local contexts. This book reports on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, India, and Japan. It addresses the definition of human rights in local contexts.

Author : Patrick Devlieger,Beatriz Miranda-Galarza,Steven E. Brown,Megan Strickfaden
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : 9789044134179

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Rethinking Disability by Patrick Devlieger,Beatriz Miranda-Galarza,Steven E. Brown,Megan Strickfaden Pdf

The act of life is a lived experience, common and unique, that ties each of us to every other lived experience. The fact of disability does not alter this fundamental truth. In this edition of Rethinking Disability: World Perspectives in Culture and Society, we are presented with a system of thinking that considers the values of disability, as a resource, as a creative source of culture that moves disability out of the realm of victimized people and insurmountable barriers, and provides opportunities to use the experience of disability to enter into networks that recognize strengths of differing abilities. The authors within will intrigue you, will move you, will charm you, but always will challenge your notion of sameness and difference as they confront the construct and (de)construct of disability and ableism. They present compelling arguments for viewing disABILITY through the multiple lenses of disability culture. They explore themes and issues that transcend past and origins, time and place, nuances of genetics, to experiences of present and becoming, and towards the future and beyond mere human, yet always intrinsically connected to being human. This book is intended for all audiences who dare to confront difference and sameness within themselves and in connection with others; to inspire researchers who wish to explore, and examine disability across social, cultural and economic barriers. It is an invitation to push away the barriers, bring ableism inside to a place where the prosthesis is no longer the elephant in the room.

Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350029309

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age by David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder Pdf

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best characterized as managing the repercussions for variable human populations. A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of disability as an outpouring of professional, political, and representational efforts to fix, correct, eliminate, preserve, and even cultivate the value of crip bodies. This book pursues analyses of disability's deployment as a wellspring for an alternative ethics of living in and alongside the body different while simultaneously considering the varied social and material contexts of devalued human differences from World War I to the present. In short, this volume demonstrates that, in Ozymandias-like ways, the Western Project of the Human with its perpetuation of body-mind hierarchies lies crumbling in the deserts of failed empires, genocidal furies, and the rejuvenating myths of new nation states in the 20th century. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture, philosophy, rehabilitation, technology, and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health while wrestling with their status as unreliable predictors of what constitutes undesirable humanity.

Author : Suzanne C. Smeltzer
Publisher : Sigma Theta Tau
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781948057455

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Delivering Quality Healthcare for People With Disability by Suzanne C. Smeltzer Pdf

Disability is a universal aspect of the human experience. It will affect all of us, either directly or indirectly, at some point in our lives. Healthcare professionals frequently provide care for and communicate with people who have disability. Many care providers have acknowledged that additional education would help them deliver optimal evidence-based care. The educational gap has broad implications and repercussions for the care of this population. Delivering Quality Healthcare for People With Disability provides a road map for nurses, nursing students, and other healthcare professionals to deliver quality healthcare for individuals with dis-ability. From social determinants of health to disability models to an understanding of different types of disability, author Suzanne Smeltzer helps nurses take the lead in redefining education and addressing the needs of people with disability.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780192599704

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Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Across Cultures by Anonim Pdf

Intellectual disability is a lifelong condition involving deficits in both intellectual and adaptive functioning. Individuals with intellectual disability experience a greater burden of co-occurring physical and mental illness compared to the general population, and often need a significant degree of support from healthcare professionals and carers, as well as family and friends. Additionally, their lives can be greatly influenced both positively and negatively by the cultures in which they exist, including societal attitudes, belief systems and norms. An insightful addition to the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability across Cultures explores the health, support structures, and societal attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities throughout the world. Written by international experts of intellectual disability and mental health, this comprehensive textbook covers broad topics such as anthropology, mental health, physical health, research, and sexuality. It also comprises chapters dedicated to specific geographic regions, such as Africa, America, Australasia, Europe, India, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Author : Nick J. Watson,Andrew Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317581475

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Sports, Religion and Disability by Nick J. Watson,Andrew Parker Pdf

This ground-breaking book provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between sports (and leisure), religion and disability. In the shadow of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, at which athletes that were both able-bodied and disabled, provided an extravaganza of sporting excellence and drama, this text is a timely and important synthesis of ideas that have emerged in two previously distinct areas of research: (i) ‘disability sport’ and (ii) the ‘theology of disability’. Many of the elite athletes at this global sporting mega-event often explicitly displayed their religious beliefs, and in turn their importance in the context of sport, by observing different religious rituals, and or, utilising the multi-faith sports chaplaincy service. This raises a whole range of unanswered questions with regard to the intersections between sports, religion and disability, which to-date has been under- researched. Examples of subjects addressed in this text include: elite physical disability sport--Paralympics; intellectual disability sport--Special Olympics; reflections on the illness narrative of the cyclist Lance Armstrong through the lens of the theology of ‘radical orthodoxy’; the application of biblical athletic metaphors in understanding modern conceptions of disability sport; the role of sport and spirituality in the rehabilitation of injured British Military personnel, and; the importance of sports and leisure in L’Arche communities. This book begins a critical conversation on these topics, and many others, for both researchers and practitioners. This book was based on two special issues of the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health.

Author : Ann Millett-Gallant,Elizabeth Howie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000417463

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Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Ann Millett-Gallant,Elizabeth Howie Pdf

This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology. This book brings these two strands together to provide a comprehensive overview of the intersections between these two disciplines. Divided into four parts: Ancient History through the 17th Century: Gods, Dwarfs, and Warriors 17th-Century Spain to the American Civil War: Misfits, Wounded Bodies, and Medical Specimens Modernism, Metaphor and Corporeality Contemporary Art: Crips, Care, and Portraiture and comprised of 16 chapters focusing on Greek sculpture, ancient Chinese art, Early Italian Renaissance art, the Spanish Golden Age, nineteenth century art in France (Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec) and the US, and contemporary works, it contextualizes understandings of disability historically, as well as in terms of medicine, literature, and visual culture. This book is required reading for scholars and students of disability studies, art history, sociology, medical humanities and media arts.

Author : Gary L. Albrecht
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452252780

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The Disability Business by Gary L. Albrecht Pdf

This comprehensive volume examines the `big business', such as health care corporations and insurance companies, that has grown up around rehabilitation of the disabled in the United States, and the impact that this has had on care. Albrecht discusses how the quality of care is influenced by income, income potential and insurance cover and traces how the financial growth in this industry has changed the nature of the care provided. He also presents a realistic assessment of the policy options and solutions available to a society that values equity in ensuring that quality rehabilitation services are equally available to all.

Author : Leahy, Ann
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447357179

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Disability and Ageing by Leahy, Ann Pdf

Establishing a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue, this text engages with the typically disparate fields of social gerontology and disability studies. It investigates the subjective experiences of two groups rarely considered together in research – people ageing with long-standing disability and people first experiencing disability with ageing. This book challenges assumptions about impairment in later life and the residual nature of the ‘fourth age’. It proposes that the experience of ‘disability’ in older age reaches beyond the bodily context and can involve not only a challenge to a sense of value and meaning in life, but also ongoing efforts in response.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789240020627

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WHO policy on disability by Anonim Pdf

On 11 June 2019, the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) was launched by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres. This strategy requires all UN entities to integrate disability inclusion into all aspects of their operational and programmatic work. To implement UNDIS in the organization, WHO Director-General launched the first-ever WHO Policy on Disability on December 3, 2020. The WHO Policy on Disability commits to ensuring that people with disability in all their diversity are meaningfully included in WHO as an organization and that disability is ingrained across all programmatic areas of work. The policy is grounded in the principles set out in WHO’s Constitution, most notably that ‘the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition’. It is also aligned with the Organization’s values which include commitments to human rights, universality, and equity, as well as to the UN values of integrity, professionalism, and respect for diversity. The document outlines the purpose of the policy, its scope, as well as the principles and approaches.

Author : Anita Ghai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317559849

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Rethinking Disability in India by Anita Ghai Pdf

Moving away from clinical, medical or therapeutic perspectives on disability, this book explores disability in India as a social, cultural and political phenomenon, arguing that this `difference' should be accepted as a part of social diversity. It further interrogates the multiple issues of identification of the disabled and the forms of oppressio

Author : Allison McCracken,Alexander Cho,Louisa Stein,Indira N Hoch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780472054565

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a tumblr book by Allison McCracken,Alexander Cho,Louisa Stein,Indira N Hoch Pdf

This book takes an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. Though it does not receive nearly as much attention as other social media such as Twitter or Facebook, Tumblr and its users have been hugely influential in creating and shifting popular culture, especially progressive youth culture, with the New York Times referring to 2014 as the dawning of the “age of Tumblr activism.” Perfect for those unfamiliar with the platform as well as those who grew up on it, this volume contains essays and artwork that span many different topics: fandom; platform structure and design; race, gender and sexuality, including queer and trans identities; aesthetics; disability and mental health; and social media privacy and ethics. An entire generation of young people that is now beginning to influence mass culture and politics came of age on Tumblr, and this volume is an indispensable guide to the many ways this platform works.