SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Handicapped

Disability in translation: the Indian experience

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"This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation. Foregrounding the asymmetrical world of power relations, it delves into the act of translation to exhibit how disability is constructed and deployed in language a…

Metanarratives of disability: culture, assumed authority, and the normative soc…

fromAutocritical disability studies

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"This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives. The book comprises fifteen chapters developed across three parts and, informed by disability stu…

Women with disabilities as agents of peace, change and rights: experiences from Sri Lanka

fromInterdisciplinary disability studies

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"Drawing on rich empirical work emerging from core conflict regions within the island nation of Sri Lanka, this book illustrates the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development. This pathbreaking book shows the critical role …

The Routledge international handbook of critical autism studies

fromRoutledge international handbooks

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This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline.?Critical Autism S…

The Routledge international handbook of critical autism studies

fromRoutledge international handbook series

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"This handbook, the first of its kind, provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this sub-disc…

Disability representation in film, TV, and print media

fromInterdisciplinary disability studies

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"Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions. It contains thirteen newly written chapters dra…

Disability and Shopping: Customers, Markets and the State

by ESKYTE, IEVA

fromRoutledge advances in disability studies

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Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers, industry and civil society. It discusses how the interaction between the three stakeholders should be shaped at aiming to decrease …

The new political economy of disability: transnational networks and individualised funding…

by Van Toorn, Georgia

fromRoutledge advances in disability studies

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"This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and across different countries through cross-national investigation of individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy mobility. Combin…

Contemporary art and disability studies

fromRoutledge advances in art and visual studies

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"This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but lacking in attention to ar…

Students with disabilities and the transition to work: a capabilities approach

by Mutanga, Oliver

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"This book sets out to understand how students with disabilities experience higher education and the transition to the workplace. It foregrounds the voices of students and graduates in order to explore identity, inclusion, participation and success of youth with disabilities in …

The Routledge international handbook of Mad Studies

fromRoutledge international handbooks

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"By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice. Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and adv…

CURATING ACCESS: disability art activism and creative accommodation

by Cachia, Amanda

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This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access. Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed a…

Curating access: disability art activism and creative accommodation

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"This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access. Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has already been executed …

The Routledge companion to art and disability

fromRoutledge companion

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"The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This compan…

Disability and art history from antiquity to the twenty-first century

fromInterdisciplinary disability studies

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"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…

Sexual citizenship and disability: understanding sexual support in policy, practice …

by Bahner, Julia

fromInterdisciplinary disability studies

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"What does 'sexual citizenship' means in practice for people with mobility impairments who may need professional support to engage in sexual activity? This book explores this subject through empirical investigation based on case studies conducted in 4 countries- Sweden, England,…

Handbook on ageing with disability

fromRoutledge Handbooks

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"Mainstream gerontological scholarship has taken little heed of people aging with disability, and they have also been largely overlooked by both disability and aging policies and service systems. The Handbook on Aging with Disability is the first to pull together knowledge about…

Dwarfism, spatiality and disabling experiences

by Pritchard, Erin

fromInterdisciplinary disability studies

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"This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social and spatial experiences of people with dwarfism, an impairment that results in a person being no taller than 4ft 10. This book engages with the concept that dwarfism's most prominent feature - body size and shape - can form …

The Routledge handbook of disability and sexuality

fromRoutledge international handbooks

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"This handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of nationalities, it provides a multi-perspectival view that fully captures the diversity of i…