| Description |
1 online resource (493 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART 1 Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Disability Studies; Chapter 1 Disability Rights Law and Origin of Disability Rights Movement in India; Chapter 2 Emergence of Disability Rights Movement in India; Chapter 3 Refocusing and the Paradigm Shift; Chapter 4 Disability within Rawlsian Framework of Justice; Chapter 5 Disability Studies as Resistance; PART 2 Body, Care and Sexuality; Chapter 6 Experiencing the Body; Chapter 7 Emergence of Epistemological Questions of Crip Queer across Shifting Geo/Bio-political Terrain |
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Chapter 8 Ethics and Practice of CarePART 3 Knowing the Self and Writing Life; Chapter 9 Privilege or Marginalization; Chapter 10 Journey So Far; Chapter 11 Narratives of Growing with A-typicality; Chapter 12 Life-writing and Disabled Self in the Works of Oliver W. Sacks; Chapter 13 Blind Culture and Cosmologies; PART 4 Disability in Literature and Culture; Chapter 14 Disability across Cultures; Chapter 15 Corporeality and Cultural Difference; Chapter 16 Interrogating Normalcy, Decolonizing Disability; Chapter 17 Jataka Katha Goes On |
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PART 5 Disability, Family Epistemologies and Resistance to Shame within the Indian ContextChapter 18 Disability, Family Epistemologies and Resistance to Shame within the Indian Context; Chapter 19 Inclusive Education in India; Chapter 20 The Emancipatory Potential of a Structural Understanding of Disability; Chapter 21 Disability at Work? Media Representations, CSR and Diversity; PART 6 Legal Discourses of Disability in India; Chapter 22 A Disability Studies Reading of the Law for Persons with Disabilities in India; Chapter 23 Reimagining Kinship in Disability-specific Domesticity |
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PART 7 Constructing Disability as DiversityChapter 24 Disability as Diversity; Chapter 25Unification of Disability inDiversity; About the Editor and Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
A book that changes the understanding of disability from a medicalised category to a social category |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- South Asia
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Sociology of disability -- South Asia
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Disabilities -- South Asia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Disabilities
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People with disabilities
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Sociology of disability
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Society & culture: general.
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Medicine: general issues.
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Psychology.
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Indian sub-continent.
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Disability: social aspects.
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Society.
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South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789352807093 |
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935280709X |
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9352807081 |
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9789352807086 |
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