The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability
Title | The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Meekosha |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2016-01-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317681649 |
Disability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in global development debates, discourses and negotiations. Similarly, disability studies has overlooked the theorists, or the social experience, of the global South and there has been a one-way transfer of ideas and knowledge from the North to the South in this field. This volume seeks to redress the processes of scholarly colonialism by drawing together a diverse set of understandings, theorizing and experiences. The chapters situate disability within the Southern context and support the work of Southern disabled scholars and activists seeking to decolonize Southern experiences, knowledges and absences in the field while simultaneously attempting to make an intervention into able-bodied (mainstream) development discourses, practices and politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability
Title | The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Meekosha |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2016-01-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317681657 |
Disability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in global development debates, discourses and negotiations. Similarly, disability studies has overlooked the theorists, or the social experience, of the global South and there has been a one-way transfer of ideas and knowledge from the North to the South in this field. This volume seeks to redress the processes of scholarly colonialism by drawing together a diverse set of understandings, theorizing and experiences. The chapters situate disability within the Southern context and support the work of Southern disabled scholars and activists seeking to decolonize Southern experiences, knowledges and absences in the field while simultaneously attempting to make an intervention into able-bodied (mainstream) development discourses, practices and politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Disability, Politics and the Struggle for Change
Title | Disability, Politics and the Struggle for Change PDF eBook |
Author | Len Barton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1134138342 |
This book seeks to explore how disability is understood and the position and experiences of disabled people both within and across different societies. The authors explore the question of politics in relation to specific struggles, providing a wealth of insights and ideas, and examine the nature and value of a social model of disability. They criticize exclusionary barriers while advancing a more democratic and participatory society based on principles of equality, offer cross-cultural insights and present stimuli for debate and further research. The text is accessible, topical, and provides new and innovatory thinking. This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, lecturers and researchers with interests in education, social policy, sociology and disability studies.
Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement
Title | Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement PDF eBook |
Author | Spandler, Helen |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2015-06-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1447314573 |
An exploration of the relationship between madness, distress and disability, bringing together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India.
Disability and the Life Course
Title | Disability and the Life Course PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Priestley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2001-07-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521797344 |
Disability and the Life Course, first published in 2001, explores the global experience of disability using a novel life course approach. The book explores how disabling societies impact on disabled people's life experiences, and highlights the ways in which disabled people have acted to take more control over their own lives. It provides a unique combination of analysis, policy issues and autobiography, offering the reader a rare opportunity to make links between the theoretical, the political and the personal in a single volume. The material is set in a truly international context, with contributions from thirteen different countries bringing together established and emerging writers, both disabled and non-disabled. The book bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled people of all ages and with different kinds of impairments and also by offering a unique analysis of the relationship between disability and generation in a changing world.
Disabilities of the Color Line
Title | Disabilities of the Color Line PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Tyler |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2022-02-15 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 147980584X |
"Rather than simply engaging in a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement are shunned alike, Disabilities of the Color Line argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed disability as a part of Black social life in varied and complex ways. Sometimes their affirmation of disability serves to capture how their bodies, minds, and health have been and are made vulnerable to harm and impairment by the state and society. Sometimes their assertion of disability symbolizes a sense of commonality and community that comes not only from a recognition of the shared subjection of blackness and disability but also from a willingness to imagine and create a world distinct from the dominant social order. Through the work of David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, and Mamie Till-Mobley, Disabilities of the Color Line examines how Black writer-activists have engaged in an aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that show how Black communities have rigorously acknowledged disability as a response to forms of racial injury and in the pursuit of racial and disability justice"--
The Sexual Politics of Disability
Title | The Sexual Politics of Disability PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Shakespeare |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Political Science |
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While the civil rights movement has put disability issues centre-stage, there has been minimal discussion of disabled people's sexuality. This book, based on first-hand accounts, takes a close look at questions of identity, relationships, sex, love, parenting and abuse and demolishes the taboo around disability and sex. It shows the barriers to disabled people's sexual rights and sexual expression, and also the ways in which these obstacles are being challenged. Variously moving, angry, funny and proud, The Sexual Politics of Disability is about disabled people sharing their stories and claiming their place as sexual beings. It is a pioneering work, and essential reading for anyone interested in disability or sexual politics.