Exploring Disability

Author : Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745698915

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Exploring Disability by Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer Pdf

The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability in the social sciences, and disability has come to play an increasingly prominent role in political debates. The new edition takes account of all these developments, and also gives greater emphasis to global issues in order to reflect the increasing and intensifying interdependence of nation states in the twenty-first century. The authors examine, amongst other issues,the changing nature of the concept of disability, key debates in the sociology of health and illness, the politicisation of disability, social policy, and the cultural and media representation of disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the literature in the area, the book develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society. The second edition of Exploring Disability will be indispensable for students across the social sciences, and in health and social care, who really want to understand the issues facing disabled people and disabling societies.

Author : Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer,Tom Shakespeare
Publisher : Polity
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745614779

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Exploring Disability by Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer,Tom Shakespeare Pdf

This is an exciting new introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the existing literature in the area, the book also develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.

Author : Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer,Tom Shakespeare
Publisher : Polity
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745614787

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Exploring Disability by Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer,Tom Shakespeare Pdf

This is an exciting new introductory textbook for anyone studying disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the existing literature in the area, the book also develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society.

Author : Ravi Malhotra,Morgan Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136015366

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Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives by Ravi Malhotra,Morgan Rowe Pdf

Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach and with extensive reporting of the thoughts of the participants in their own words, the book uses narratives to explore whether an advocacy identity helps or hinders dealings with systemic barriers for disabled people in education, employment, and transportation. The book underscores how both physical and attitudinal barriers by educators, employers and service providers complicate the lives of disabled people. The book places a particular focus on the importance of political economy and the changes to the labour market for understanding the marginalization and oppression of people with disabilities. By melding socio-legal approaches with insights from feminist, critical race, and queer legal theory, Ravi Malhotra and Morgan Rowe ask if we need to reconsider the social model of disablement, and proposes avenues for inclusive legal reform.

Author : Ravi Malhotra,Morgan Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136015441

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Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives by Ravi Malhotra,Morgan Rowe Pdf

Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach and with extensive reporting of the thoughts of the participants in their own words, the book uses narratives to explore whether an advocacy identity helps or hinders dealings with systemic barriers for disabled people in education, employment, and transportation. The book underscores how both physical and attitudinal barriers by educators, employers and service providers complicate the lives of disabled people. The book places a particular focus on the importance of political economy and the changes to the labour market for understanding the marginalization and oppression of people with disabilities. By melding socio-legal approaches with insights from feminist, critical race, and queer legal theory, Ravi Malhotra and Morgan Rowe ask if we need to reconsider the social model of disablement, and proposes avenues for inclusive legal reform.

Author : A.J. Withers
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773636641

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Disability Politics and Theory, Revised and Expanded Edition by A.J. Withers Pdf

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 : Alice Wong
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984899422

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Disability Visibility by Alice Wong Pdf

“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.

Author : Jeanette Robertson
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633862

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Disability and Social Change by Jeanette Robertson Pdf

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 : Jessica Nina Lester
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030717605

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Discursive Psychology and Disability by Jessica Nina Lester Pdf

This book explores how discursive psychology (DP) research can be applied to disability and the everyday and institutional constructions of bodymind differences. Bringing together both theoretical and empirical work, it illustrates how DP might be leveraged to make visible nuanced understandings of disability and difference writ large. The authors argue that DP can attend to how such realities are made relevant, dealt with, and negotiated within social practices in the study of disability. They contend that DP can be used to unearth the nuanced and frequently taken for granted ways in which disability is made real in both everyday and institutional talk, and can highlight the very ways in which differences are embodied in social practices – specifically at the level of talk and text. This book demonstrates that rather than simply staying at the level of theory, DP scholars can make visible the actual means by which disabilities and differences more broadly are made real, resisted, contested, and negotiated in everyday social actions. This book aims to expand conceptions of disability and to deepen the – at present, primarily theoretical – critiques of medicalization.

Author : Abigail Perdue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Discrimination
ISBN : 1531002765

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Exploring Diversity and Discrimination by Abigail Perdue Pdf

"America is undergoing an intense cultural evolution. Recently, race, sex, and other relations have been incredibly strained, and communities, both urban and rural, have experienced social turbulence, which at times, has erupted into violence. These issues are surfacing at campuses across America. But what underlying factors account for these recurring eruptions of prejudice, discrimination, violence, and hate? And perhaps more importantly, what, if anything, can we, as educators, do to prevent prejudice, promote empathy and understanding, and empower our students to compassionately and thoughtfully navigate these turbulent times? Grappling with these difficult but important questions inspired Exploring Diversity and Discrimination: Sex, Disability, and Genetic Information. The book aims to encourage educators to teach inclusive courses about diversity and discrimination at their respective institutions, and that these courses will provide opportunities for compassionate engagement and meaningful dialogue among people from different backgrounds. Although one book is certainly not an all-inclusive solution, it is a step in the right direction. After all, relations between different groups may continue to deteriorate unless we, as educators, provide more opportunities for meaningful, open, and honest dialogue about these issues and facilitate compassionate engagement with people who differ from us. Such exposure can foster empathy as can education and understanding. With this purpose in mind, the book explores the sociological underpinnings and legal regulation of diversity and discrimination in the United States, primarily through the lens of my areas of scholarly interest and practical expertise: sex discrimination, disability discrimination, and discrimination on the basis of genetic information"--

Author : Susan Antebi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472038503

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Embodied Archive by Susan Antebi Pdf

Disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period

Author : Stephen James Macdonald
Publisher : Stephen James Macdonald
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783639131130

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TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF DYSLEXIA: Exploring Links between Dyslexia, Disability and Social Class by Stephen James Macdonald Pdf

The aim of this book is to establish a sociological understanding of dyslexia within adulthood. The research explores the effects dyslexia has on the lives of individuals within an educational and employment context. A feature of the study is that it draws from literature within the social model of disability rather than employing the psycho- educational approach that dominates contemporary research. The study has placed dyslexia within the field of disability studies in an attempt to understand how this syndrome can be interpreted through the concept of disabling barriers. In order to explore dyslexia within the field of disability studies the book employs a biographical narrative approach. The book discusses the importance of identifying and supporting people with dyslexia within education and employment. By acknowledging that dyslexia is affected by issues of socio- economic status, the research has broadened the debate in relation to labelling individuals within education. The study has developed a pro-labelling approach based on evidence from the social and educational perspectives in order to represent the voices of participants within this study.

Author : Licia Carlson,Matthew C. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000343700

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Defining the Boundaries of Disability by Licia Carlson,Matthew C. Murray Pdf

This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology. By focusing on the statement, "We are all disabled", the book explores the following questions: What are the philosophical, political, and practical implications of making this claim? What conceptions of disability underlie it? When, if ever, is this claim justified, and when or why might it be problematic or harmful? What are the implications of claiming "we are all disabled" amidst this global COVID-19 pandemic? These critical reflections on the boundaries of disability include perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, law, and the arts. In exploring the boundaries of disability, and the ways in which these lines are drawn theoretically, legally, medically, socially, and culturally, the authors in this volume challenge particular conceptions of disability, expand the meaning and significance of the term, and consider the implications of claiming disability as an identity. It will be of interest to a broad audience, including disability scholars, advocates and activists, philosophers and historians of disability, moral theorists, clinicians, legal scholars, and artists.

Author : Robert McRuer,Anna Mollow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822351542

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Sex and Disability by Robert McRuer,Anna Mollow Pdf

This collection brings together scholars and artists in disability studies, sexuality, queer theory, and feminism, to show how much sexuality studies and disability studies have to learn from each other.

Author : Harriet Clarke,Stephen McKay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children with disabilities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132118824

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Exploring Disability, Family Formation and Break-up by Harriet Clarke,Stephen McKay Pdf