| Description |
1 online resource (361 pages) |
| Contents |
Introducing disability and social theory / Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes, and Leonard Davis -- Civilising modernity and the ontological invalidation of disabled people / Bill Hughes -- Commodifying autism: the cultural contexts of "disability" in the academy / Rebecca Mallett and Katherine Runswick-Cole -- Disability and the majority world: a neocolonial approach / Shaun Grech -- Discourses of disabled peoples organisations: Foucault, Bourdieu, and future perspectives / Theo Blackmore and Stephen Lee Hodgkins -- Cyborgs, cripples, and iCrip: reflections on the contributions of Haraway to disability studies / Donna Reeve -- Theory, impairment, and impersonal singularities: Deleuze, Guattari, and Agamben / James Overboe -- The body as the problem of individuality: a phenomenological disability studies approach / Tanya Titchkosky and Rod Michalko -- Dancing with disability: an intersubjective approach / Eimir McGrath -- Nomadology and subjectivity: Deleuze, Guattari, and critical disability studies / Griet Roets and Rosi Braidotti -- Jacques Lacan + Paul Hunt = psychoanalytic disability studies / Dan Goodley -- Intellectual disability trouble: Foucault and Goffman on "challenging behaviour" / Karl Nunkoosing and Mark Haydon-Laurelut -- Stalking ableism: using disability to expose "abled" narcissism / Fiona Kumari-Campbell -- Lave and Wenger: communities of practice and disability studies / Rebecca Lawthom (with Tsitsi Chataika) -- Disability, development, and postcolonialism / Tsitsi Chataika -- Engaging with disability with colonial theory / Anita Ghai -- Recognition, respect, and rights: women with disabilities in a globalised world / Carolyn Frohmader and Helen Meekosha -- Conclusion: disability and social theory / Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes, and Leonard Davis |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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People with disabilities.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities.
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Disabilities.
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Disabled Persons
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Disabilities
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Discrimination against people with disabilities
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People with disabilities
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goodley, Dan, 1972-
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Hughes, Bill, 1956-
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Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
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| ISBN |
9781137023001 |
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1137023007 |
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