Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Note on Terminology to Depict 'Disability' -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts -- Locating the Researcher: Theoretical Positioning -- My Father's Accident: Witnessing the Disruption and Silencing -- Disenchantment with the Culture of Mainstream Psychology: The Master's Days -- Discourses Transforming Impairment into Disability Experience: Ableism and Neoliberalism
Suffering and Healing: Foregrounding Silenced Voices of Disability -- Aspects of Selfhood: Association with Suffering and Healing -- Perspectives on Disability: An Overview -- Anthropology and Disability -- Sociology and Disability -- Rise of Disability Studies -- Critique of Social Model and the Rise of Embodiment Studies -- Psychology and Disability -- Need for an Interactionist Perspective Utilizing the Social Model and Embodiment Perspective -- Disability in Indian Context -- Focus of the Study -- Research Goals and Objectives -- Goals -- Objectives of Suffering -- Objectives of Healing
Relating the Objectives of Suffering with the Theoretical Framework -- Relating the Objectives of Healing with the Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2: Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices -- Paradigmatic Position/Standpoint -- Ethnography -- Field Sites -- Ethical Considerations -- The Participants -- Relevance of Choosing Accident Survivors with Locomotor Disability: Persons with Amputation, Leg Deformity and Spinal Cord Injury -- Relevance of Choosing Two Fields of Study: Kanpur (non-metro) and Delhi (metro) -- Systemic Variations -- Disability Culture
Getting Closer to the Participants' World -- Methods of Data Collection -- Semi-Structured Interviewing -- Interview schedule -- Participant Observation -- Conducting Interviews -- Rigour of the Study -- Data Analysis: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Approach -- Initial Coding -- Focused Coding and Axial Coding -- Empathic Connection with the Participant -- Participant's Verbal or Non-verbal Emphasis -- Experience Related to Critical Life Events -- Theoretical Sampling and Theoretical Saturation -- Findings -- Chapter 3: Embodied Existence: Attending to Impaired Body and Related Regrets
From an Unimaginable Loss to the Body to an Embodied Existence -- Reactions to Experiential Vacuum -- Embodied Existence with an Impaired Body -- Embodied Adjustment with Assistive Aids -- Regret Regarding Personal Behaviour Associated with/Leading to the Accident -- Disappointment over Urgent but Absent/Inadequate/Unprofessional Medical Help -- Chapter 4: Struggles of Living with a 'Dependent' Identity: Negotiating 'Mobility-Related' Difficulties -- Negotiating Increased 'Mobility-Related' Dependency and Difficult Everyday Life -- Coming to Terms with Dependency -- Resisting Dependency
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Difficult Everyday Life Owing to Impairment and Decreased Mobility
