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Title Accessibility denied. understanding inaccessibility and everyday resistance to inclusion for persons with disabilities / edited by Hanna Egard, Kristofer Hansson and David Wästerfors
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022

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Description 1 online resource
Series Interdisciplinary disability studies
Summary "This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 11 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within a wide cross-disciplinary field are covered, including disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, and history. The main example is Sweden, with its implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities within the context of the Nordic welfare state. By identifying and discussing persistent social and cultural conditions as well as recurring situations and interactions that nurture resistance to advancing accessibility, despite various strong laws promoting it, the book's conclusions are widely transferable. It argues for the value of alternating between methods, theoretical perspectives, and datasets to explore how new arenas, resources and technologies cause new accessibility concerns - and possibilities - for persons living with impairments. We need to be able to follow actors closely to uncover how they feel, act, and argue, but also to connect to wider discursive and institutional patterns and systems. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, political science, and organization studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject People with disabilities -- Scandinavia
Discrimination against people with disabilities -- Scandinavia
Sociology of disability -- Scandinavia
Social integration -- Scandinavia
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Handicapped
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
People with disabilities.
Social integration.
Sociology of disability.
Scandinavia.
Form Electronic book
Author Egard, Hanna, editor
Hansson, Kristofer, 1976- editor.
Wästerfors, David, editor
LC no. 2021021224
ISBN 9781000512700
1000512703
9781003120452
1003120458
9781000512380
100051238X