Critical theory and disability: a phenomenological approach
Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social practices that undermine disabled people's well being, drawing on cases from contemporary B…
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- Full title :Critical theory and disability : a phenomenological approach / Teodor Mladenov.
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Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social practices that undermine disabled people's well being, drawing on cases from contemporary Bulgaria. It includes in-depth examination of key mechanisms such as disability assessment, personal a.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781628922011, 162892201X
- oclc:ocn895254733
- LC Classification:HV1568
- Dewey Decimal:362.4
Table of Contents
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Key ideas; Methodological considerations; The Bulgarian context; Personal reflections; Notes; Chapter 2 The body; Body, realism, and disability studies; The British social model of disability; Updating the social model; Rejecting the social model; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 3 Disability assessment; Disability assessment in Bulgaria; Linking medicalization and productivism; Transformations of modernity and attempts at changing the status quo; Disability assessment statement as a boundary object.
Three social worldsThe administrative and the sociopolitical: Coordination, standardization, and naturalization; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 4 Personal assistance; The European Center for Excellence in Personal Assistance project; From autonomy to interdependence; Putting the shift in context; Self-driven customers?; Choice and control revisited; Collective action for legislative change; Collective action after legislative change; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 5 Discrimination; A phenomenological approach to space and time; Objectification; Space; Time; Nonhuman entities.
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