Disabilities, Culture and Identity is a succinct and accessible presentation of current research on disability, culture and identity. It is an ideal text for students and lecturers alike studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies and Social Policy. Disabilities, Culture and Identity provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to an area of growing importance. The authors provide up-to-date and extensive coverage of the development of thinking on cultures of disability, including those relating to people with learning difficulties, people with mental health problems and people with learning difficulties Also covered in detail are critical areas in disability studies including:
Development of the social model of disability Disability and the politics of social justice Disability and theories of culture and media Disability, ethnicity and generation The policy options for empowering disabled people, and how the disabled are empowering themselves The disability arts movement Media treatment of disability
Chapter OneDisability, Culture and Identity: IntroductionIntroductionThe
Social Model of Disability and CultureWhat is Culture?Culture and
DisabilityDisability and IdentityStructure and Content of the
BookConclusionReferences Chapter TwoDependent ChildrenTroubled
AdolescentsNeedy Disabled PeopleDefined as 'The Other'Is it Possible to Have
a Culture of ParticipationReferences Chapter ThreeDaily Denials: The
Routinisation of Oppression and ResistanceIntroductionThe Importance of
Interaction: reclaiming social InteractionPrejudiceThe Daily Experience of
OppressionOppression as Patronage and the Denial of AgencyOppression as the
Product of CharityBecoming the Centre of AttentionEngaging with Non-Disabled
PeopleOppression as IgnoranceConclusionReferences Chapter FourImpairment,
Disability and the Habitus of Old AgeIntroductionThinking about Disability
and Old AgeTalking about Older Disabled PeoplePreoccupation with the Body and
the Physical FunctionBiography and IdentityOlder Disabled People, Same or
Different?References Chapter FiveChallenging a Spoiled Identity: Mental
Health Service Users, Recognition and RedistributionIntroductionChallenging a
Spoiled IdentityPatientCustomerUserSurvivorClientMemberPerson with the
DiagnosisMadpersonNo Suitable TermTowards a Mental Health Identity?A Positive
Identity?A Permanent Identity?Social Construct or Immanent Condition?A Shared
Identity?Rethinking Identity?Conclusion: The Limits of
DifferenceReferences Chapter SixDeafness / Disability - Problematising
Notions of Identity, Culture and StructureIntroductionDeaf Studies: The
Structural Penetration of CultureDisability Studies: The Cultural Penetration
of StructureConclusionsReferences Chapter SevenAgainst a Politics of
Victimisation: Disability Culture and Self-Advocates with Learning
Difficulties.IntroductionDisabling and Disability CulturesResearching
Self-AdvocacyEmbracing Cultures and Resilient IdentitiesResilience in the
FamilyIdentity Formation and InstitutionalisationDisabled Identities and
Self-Advocacy CultureSelf-Advocacy and the Disability
MovementConclusionReferences Chapter EightNow I Know Why Disability Art is
Drowning in the River LetheIntroductionThe Development of Disability Art in
the UKCommercial Sponsorship of Art and Disability ArtState Sponsorship of
Disability ArtThe Domestication of Disability Art and Disability
ArtistsConclusionReferences Chapter NineMainstreaming Disability on Radio
4IntroductionMedia, Power and DisabilityInclusion, Exclusion and
MainstreamingRights, Citizenship and ConsumerismProduction
IssuesContentConclusionReferences Chapter TenDisability and Ethnicity: How
Young Asian Disabled People Make Sense of their LivesIntroductionDisability
and EthnicityThe StudyNegotiating IdentitiesThe Meaning of Disability for
ParentsYoung People and the FamilyThe Social Meaning of DisabilityEthnic,
Cultural and Religious IdentificationReligious and Cultural
IdentificationDiscussionReferences Chapter ElevenCan Multiculturalism
Encompass Disability?IntroductionCritical Multiculturalism and the Problem of
the Able BodyAustralia - A Diverse Settler Society in CrisisCulture - The
Dimension of Social MeaningsDisability as a Cultural MovementCrossover -
Disability, Multiculturalism and ReconciliationPopulation and the Popular:
Disability Engages with MulticulturalismConclusionReferences Index
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