Disabling Diversity
Author : Katie Ellis
Publisher : Katie Ellis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3639023579
Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments
Author : John Swain
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2013-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1446293424
Book Description
Since it was first published in 1993, Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments has established itself as essential reading for anyone coming to the subject of disability studies. The book tackles a wide range of issues in numerous succinct chapters written by contributing authors, many of whom are disabled themselves. From the outset, the chapters take a multidisciplinary and international approach. The third edition is made up of 42 chapters, 15 of which are completely new to this edition, including: · Early seminal writings in disabled studies · Death and dying · Psychology · Hate crime and the criminal justice system · Sport · Psycho-emotional disablism and internal oppression. This seminal textbook conveys the continuing developments in the lives and experiences of disabled people. It is valuable reading for students and professionals in the fields of social work, sociology, social policy, health and nursing as well as disabled people.
Disabling Imagery and the Media
Author : Colin Barnes
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Handicapped
ISBN : 9781853310423
Book Description
The New Politics of Disablement
Author : Michael Oliver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1350318140
Book Description
Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.
Disability Visibility
Author : Alice Wong
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984899422
Book Description
“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.
Becoming Disabled
Author : Jan Doolittle Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793643709
Book Description
Using an autoethnographic approach, as well as multiple first-person accounts from disabled writers, artists, and scholars, Jan Doolittle Wilson describes how becoming disabled is to forge a new consciousness and a radically new way of viewing the world. In Becoming Disabled, Wilson examines disability in ways that challenge dominant discourses and systems that shape and reproduce disability stigma and discrimination. It is to create alternative meanings that understand disability as a valuable human variation, that embrace human interdependency, and that recognize the necessity of social supports for individual flourishing and happiness. From her own disability view of the world, Wilson critiques the disabling impact of language, media, medical practices, educational systems, neoliberalism, mothering ideals, and other systemic barriers. And she offers a powerful vision of a society in which all forms of human diversity are included and celebrated and one in which we are better able to care for ourselves and each other.
Research Handbook on Disability Policy
Author : Sally Robinson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800373651
Book Description
Examining how policy affects the human rights of people with disabilities, this topical Handbook presents diverse empirical experiences of disability policy and identifies the changes that are necessary to achieve social justice.
Disability and Social Media
Author : Katie Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317150279
Book Description
Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism. These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups in society. However, the offline inaccessible environment has, to a certain degree, been replicated online and particularly in social networking sites. Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global perspectives are often overlooked. This collection explores the opportunities and challenges social media represents for the social inclusion of people with disabilities from a variety of different global perspectives that include Africa, Arabia and Asia along with European, American and Australasian perspectives and experiences.
Disability and Media - An African Perspective
Author : Tafadzwa Rugoho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3031408853
Book Description
This book seeks to expand some of the existing, often western and Global North facing, scholarship in the area of Disability and Media Studies to include African perspectives. Featuring predominantly Africa-based contributors, it studies an array of topics on disability and media in Africa, including issues of social media, media ethics, including marginalised voices in the media, and disability representation in the media.
Disabled People and Employment
Author : Sally French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351752456
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. Providing a detailed account of the working lives of visually impaired physiotherapists in Britain, this study also presents an overview of the employment position of disabled people in the UK, and is underpinned by a social model which views disability in terms of societal barriers rather than in terms of impairment.
