Interdisciplinary Disability Studies – serie
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118 produkter
Clashing Vulnerabilities, Disability and Conflict
Häftad, 2025
669 kr
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This book is about how we might think about vulnerability—what it is and how it operates—by looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash. Disability is often portrayed as a vulnerability in itself, and disabled people are often labelled a prototypical “vulnerable group”. This …
Disability, Globalization and Human Rights
Av Hisayo Katsui, Shuaib Chalklen
Häftad, 2022
596 kr
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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has facilitated the understanding that disability is both a human rights and development issue. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the focus on disability inclusion has become increasingly important in the …
Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy
Our Way
Av Karen Soldatic, Kelley Johnson
Häftad, 2021
648 kr
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This book explores the diverse ways in which disability activism and advocacy are experienced and practised by people with disabilities and their allies.Contributors to the book explore the very different strategies and campaigns they have used to have their demands for respect, dignity and rights …
Disability and Discourse Analysis
Av Jan Grue
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, however, its methods have not been sufficiently developed in a disability studies context. …
Disabled Child's Participation Rights
Av Anne-Marie Callus, Ruth Farrugia
Häftad, 2019
636 kr
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the only UN treaty to date in which the people who are its target, that is disabled people, were actively involved in its drafting and the only one which requires the active participation of disabled people in its …
Pedagogy, Disability and Communication
Applying Disability Studies in the Classroom
Häftad, 2019
714 kr
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Research has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity negotiation, the practice of communication, and the development of interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, individuals without disabilities often lack the knowledge and …
Disability and Rurality
Identity, Gender and Belonging
Av Karen Soldatic, Kelley Johnson
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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This is the first book to explore how far disability challenges dominant understandings of rurality, identity, gender and belonging within the rural literature. The book focuses particularly on the ways disabled people give, and are given, meaning and value in relation to ethical rural …
Disability, Society and Assistive Technology
Av Bodil Ravneberg, Sylvia Söderström
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state. The state plays a significant role towards linking users and products, and the matching of devices and users is both a science and an art. However, many people feel it is stigmatising to …
Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child
Unsettling Distinctions
Inbunden, 2020
2826 kr
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This book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disability as a personal experience of internalised oppression on the other. In focalising this debate through an exploration of the politically and emotionally charged figure …
Disability Hate Speech
Social, Cultural and Political Contexts
Av Mark Sherry, Terje Olsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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This book, the first to specifically focus on disability hate speech, explains what disability hate speech is, why it is important, what laws regulate it (both online and in person) and how it is different from other forms of hate. Unfortunately, disability is often ignored or overlooked in …
Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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In the twenty-first century there is increasing global recognition of pain relief as a basic human right. However, as Susan Honeyman argues in this new take on child pain and invisible disability, such a belief has historically been driven by adult, ideological needs, whereas the needs of children …
Feminist Ethnography of Secure Wards for Women with Learning Disabilities
Locked Away
Av Rebecca Fish
Häftad, 2019
847 kr
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What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a contemporary institution in England. Rebecca Fish takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on both the social model of disability and intersectional …
Organizing the Blind
The case of ONCE in Spain
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to other affluent countries where most blind people live on welfare benefits, the Spanish blind enjoy full employment. …
Disability and Postsocialism
Häftad, 2019
691 kr
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In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment. Some of the mechanisms producing these injustices were inherited from state socialism, …
Reimagining Disablist and Ableist Violence as Abjection
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection. Extending interdisciplinary dialogues and approaches, it …
Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity
Häftad, 2019
847 kr
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Inspired by the author’s personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ABI through a social scientific lens, promoting an understanding that is generated through close …
Chronic Pain, BDSM and Crip Time
Inbunden, 2023
2586 kr
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This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution to crip theory and the concept of ‘crip time’.Exploring experiences of pain and fatigue for people who live with chronic pain and based on narratives …
Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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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 4' 10". This book engages with the concept that dwarfism’s most prominent feature – body size and shape – can form the basis of social …
Disability and Citizenship Studies
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality. Bringing together disability and citizenship studies, it …
International Disability Rights Advocacy
Languages of Moral Knowledge and Institutional Critique
Inbunden, 2021
2311 kr
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This book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today. By analysing what disability rights activism contributes to a global power apparatus of disability-related knowledge, it demonstrates how disability advocacy influences the way we …
Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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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 13 newly written chapters drawing on representations of …
Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Av Ann Millett-Gallant, Elizabeth Howie
Häftad, 2023
712 kr
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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 intersections between …
Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Av Ann Millett-Gallant, Elizabeth Howie
Inbunden, 2022
2586 kr
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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 intersections between …
Rethinking Disability and Human Rights
Participation, Equality and Citizenship
Av Inger Marie Lid, Edward Steinfeld m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
636 kr
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This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on citizenship, which poses challenges for contemporary …
Rethinking Disability and Human Rights
Participation, Equality and Citizenship
Av Inger Marie Lid, Edward Steinfeld m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2311 kr
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This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on citizenship, which poses challenges for contemporary …
Reimagining Disablist and Ableist Violence as Abjection
Häftad, 2022
648 kr
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Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection. Extending interdisciplinary dialogues and approaches, it …
Identity Construction and Illness Narratives in Persons with Disabilities
Av Chalotte Glintborg, Manuel L. de la Mata
Häftad, 2022
629 kr
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This book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there is a risk that this label can become the primary status both for the person diagnosed as well as for their family. This reification of the diagnosis can be oppressive …
Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity
Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories
Häftad, 2023
619 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume links dis/ability and agency by exploring LatDisCrit’s theory and activist emancipatory practice. It uses the author’s experiential and analytical views as a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist from the global south living and struggling in the highly …
Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity
Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume links dis/ability and agency by exploring LatDisCrit’s theory and activist emancipatory practice. It uses the author’s experiential and analytical views as a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist from the global south living and struggling in the highly …
Disability and Citizenship Studies
Häftad, 2022
648 kr
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Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality. Bringing together disability and citizenship studies, it …
