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Author : David T. Mitchell,Susan Antebi,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : Corporealities: Discourses of
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472054114
Breaks new ground by exploring the limits and transformations of the social model of disability
Author : D. Goodley,B. Hughes,L. Davis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137023001
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection, examines disability from a theoretical perspective, challenging views of disability that dominate mainstream thinking. Throughout, social theories of disability intersect with ideas associated with sex/gender, race/ethnicity, class and nation.
Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472052714
Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art
Author : Al Etmanski
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Dianne Pothier,Richard Devlin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774841566
Despite the widespread belief that Canada is a country of liberty, equality, and inclusiveness, many persons with disabilities experience social exclusion and marginalization. In this book, twenty-four scholars from a variety of disciplines contend that achieving equality for the disabled is not fundamentally a question of medicine or health, nor is it an issue of sensitivity or compassion. Rather, it is a question of politics, and of power and powerlessness. This book argues that we need a new understanding of participatory citizenship that encompasses the disabled, new policies to respond to their needs, and a new vision of their entitlements.
Author : Hannalora Leavitt
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Alice Wong
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984899422
“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 : Tobin Siebers
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472050390
Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies
Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472067480
Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function
Author : Shaun Grech,Karen Soldatic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319424880
This first-of-its kind volume spans the breadth of disability research and practice specifically focusing on the global South. Established and emerging scholars alongside advocates adopt a critical and interdisciplinary stance to probe, challenge and shift common held social understandings of disability in established discourses, epistemologies and practices, including those in prominent areas such as global health, disability studies and international development. Motivated by decolonizing approaches, contributors carefully weave the lived and embodied experiences of disabled people, families and communities through contextual, cultural, spatial, racial, economic, identity and geopolitical complexities and heterogeneities. Dispatches from Ghana, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Venezuela among many others spotlight the complex uncertainties of modern geopolitics of coloniality; emergent forms of governance including neoliberal globalization, war and conflicts; the interstices of gender, race, ethnicity, space and religion; structural barriers to redistribution and realization of rights; and processes of disability representation. This handbook examines in rigorous depth, established practices and discourses in disability including those on development, rights, policies and practices, opening a space for critical debate on hegemonic and often unquestioned terrains. Highlights of the coverage include: Critical issues in conceptualizing disability across cultures, time and space The challenges of disability models, metrics and statistics Disability, poverty and livelihoods in urban and rural contexts Disability interstices with migration, race, ethnicity, ge nder and sexuality Disabilit y, religion and customary societies and practice · The UNCRPD, disability rights orientations and instrumentalitie · Redistributive systems including budgeting, cash transfer systems and programming. · Global South–North partnerships: intercultural methodologies in disability research. This much awaited handbook provides students, academics, practitioners and policymakers with an authoritative framework for critical thinking and debate about disability, while pushing theoretical and practical frontiers in unprecedented ways.
Author : Terry Trueman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062216991
This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review
Author : Robert F. Drake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349273119
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development and consequences of disability policies, contrasting policies grounded in medical definitions of disability with a 'social model' of disability supported by disability rights campaigners in their pursuit of anti-discrimination legislation. British policies are set in comparative context, and the impacts of policy on disabled people according to their class, gender, age and ethnicity are explored.
Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Eugenics
ISBN : 0472066595
Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality
Author : Sara Hendren
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780735220027
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider—or reconsider—the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built. In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it—from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture—Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”—look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
Author : Nathaniel Amanze,S. Nkhoma
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789996060816
This book is about people with disabilities (PWDs) and the extraordinary talents they have that can contribute towards the world economy generally and that of Southern and Central Africa in particular. The papers selected for this book were presented at an international conference that was held at the University of Botswana from 16th to 19th October 2018. The conference was held in order to address the injustices, discrimination and exclusion that people with disabilities face in their daily life. The papers discuss the need to train families and leaders in disability awareness, for clear national policies, the funding needed to address issues that affect PWDs, inclusive education, and the need to create a conducive environment and the implementation of policies, strategies and programmes. The book also points to the importance of sharing stories and experiences of success as a strategy of empowering PDWs.
