This book explores how artists with disabilities have provided social, emotional, psychological, and physical context for understanding the complexities surrounding disability....Loe edasi...
Drumlin N.M. Crape and Brooke Camerons Disability and the Vampire is an edited collection of essays addressing a wide range of literary depictions of vampirism and disability....Loe edasi...
Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to the Paralympic Games, one of the largest multi-sport mega-events in the world. The book explores every key aspect of the Games, from the...Loe edasi...
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are defined by lifes landmarks, many of which resonate...Loe edasi...
Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive account that enables readers to understand the harmful nature of these issues and how they serve to place and keep marginali...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive handbook provides therapists, social workers, educators, and mental health professionals with effective clinical interventions for working affirmatively with disabled clients and their families....Loe edasi...
The issue this book addresses is how the innovation and entrepreneurship created by disabled people are variously supported in different national contexts. What influences the availability of resources in support of entrepreneurship and innovation b...Loe edasi...
This book is about how we might think about vulnerabilitywhat it is and how it operatesby looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash....Loe edasi...
Taking Kenya as a case study, this book examines the application of criminal procedure in the context of persons with psychosocial disabilities....Loe edasi...
First published in 1994, this book examines neglected area of stress and coping strategies of children and staff in residential settings who must function within contradictory expectations of the public and policy makers. It is particularly valuable...Loe edasi...
This Handbook aims to provide a comprehensive, international cartography of Queer Death Studies, offering broad, in-depth insights into the field and its emergence through tentacular transdisciplinary networking....Loe edasi...
This book coins the term dis/honesty to define the moments in which dishonesty is invoked by disability, and vice versa. The concept is explored via contemporary British sociocultural representations namely, jokes, disability sitcom, soap opera, ra...Loe edasi...
Internationally there is a growing awareness that domestic, family, and sexual violence is a social issue that results from social structures and relational contexts that have positioned women as less than men. Alongside this has come social action...Loe edasi...
This book explores the diversity of fans and how they form and express their identity within fandom. Readers that would be interested in this book are scholars and students of fandom theory, screenwriting practice, and those interested in the develo...Loe edasi...
Disfigurement: Understanding Visible Difference is a collection of essays which brings together an all-star cast of researchers, clinicians, advocates and activists around the world, many of whom have lived experience with disfigurement....Loe edasi...
While Disability Studies has become more diversified in recent years, contemporary debates still favour the Northern Hemisphere, ignoring the lived experience of disabled people in much of the global South....Loe edasi...
This volume explores interesting and emerging philosophical questions related to autism. It sheds light on the ways in which cultural attitudes about autism have changed in the decade since the editors published their first volume on the philosophy...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the lived realities of disabled mothers to examine how they navigate their multiple competing responsibilities and identities. It reimagines normative constructions of motherhood, dependency, and care while rethinking advocacy a...Loe edasi...
Studying Religion and Disability introduces students to the many compelling and influential intersections between religion and disability....Loe edasi...
Based on a 10-year longitudinal study in the United States, this much-needed text offers insight into the developmental trajectories of people with disabilities from childhood through adulthood using their language and amplifying their voices....Loe edasi...
Through an exploration of healthcare, love and intimacy, pregnancy and childbirth, housing, employment, and food the book highlights the enduringly impoverished lives and premature deaths people labelled with learning disabilities experience globall...Loe edasi...
The Impossible Return - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning is a work of creative non-fiction and auto-theory. It is part cancer memoir, part psychoanalytic theorizing, and part history of late-Soviet Ukraine....Loe edasi...
Redefining Neurodiversity is a transformative exploration of neurodiversity, redefining how we perceive and engage with cognitive differences. By blending scientific research with personal narratives, this book highlights the lived experiences of ne...Loe edasi...
This book uses the concept of learning disability to explore what it means to be human. It argues that we need to learn with rather than from or about learning disability. This crucial distinction means being open to what learning disability can tea...Loe edasi...
This book enables readers to confidently discuss and understand disability as part of the broader societal conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion. It provides readers with the knowledge and skills to create conversation that gives space to...Loe edasi...
This book advances the debate regarding the inclusion and wellbeing of people with visual impairment (PVI) through looking at the psychological nature of visual culture and its effects on the lived experience. It is compelling reading for advanced s...Loe edasi...
This book explores how digital marketing can drive disability inclusion in consumer culture by addressing accessibility, representation, and research methodologies. It inspires marketers, researchers, and advocates to adopt more inclusive and social...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Disability, Crime, and Justice stands as a definitive guide to disability, crime, and justice and will be of value to all those with an interest in this area....Loe edasi...
Mad Studies: The Basics provides an introductory account of a field that emerged from, and must remain grounded within, community knowledge, activism, and the perspectives of those who have experienced madness and mental health systems....Loe edasi...
This volume investigates the contributions and achievements of the physically disabled dancer while at the same time challenging and recognizing the inherent inequities in the field of integrated dance in the UK which currently places greater emphas...Loe edasi...
This book examines texts and other artistic products rendered by siblings of individuals with disabilities in order to interrogate the impact of disability on the identity of non-disabled siblings....Loe edasi...
This first of its kind volume introduces Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) in unprecedented critical and interdisciplinary ways covering the complex conceptual, theoretical and practice terrain....Loe edasi...
This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that disabled and anthropologist belong together. The disabled anthropologists who contribute to this volume and on which these chapters focus have refused erasure from...Loe edasi...
This book integrates the discipline of disability studies with the lived experiences of women with visible disabilities. It seeks to foreground the silenced voices of Korean and Korean American women with visible physical disabilities in South Korea...Loe edasi...
This book examines the activities or practices of sensing used by visually impaired walkers as they engage with and experience the English countryside....Loe edasi...
This book presents a timely and innovative exploration of one of the first human rights articles about data production and processing: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities article 31, Statistics and data collection....Loe edasi...
Care and Disability is an edited collection offering critical perspectives on representations of care and disability, by emerging and established scholars across multiple periods, regions, and genres of literary studies....Loe edasi...
Disabled people constitute the worlds largest minority, yet remain conspicuously under-represented in best practices and current theories of organizing. This book offers a global map, and manifesto, by showcasing how people with disabilities entrepr...Loe edasi...
This book presents a novel pluralist strategy for answering Molyneuxs problem: Would a person, born blind but given sight, identify a shape previously known only by their touch? The author interweaves historical scholarship with contemporary philoso...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Disability and Work explores the realities faced by disabled individuals in the workplace and beyond. This comprehensive guide is essential for students, teachers, and researchers looking to intersect disability and busine...Loe edasi...
People with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical definition of male or female. This book develops a social science of VSC, Intersex, and Disorders of Sex...Loe edasi...
Critical disability studies both questions these existing notions of disability and interrogates how they have become a part of the academic attitude towards the field. As the first comprehensive handbook on critical disability studies, this volume...Loe edasi...
This book specialists from different literary and filmic studies explore the conflicting theoretical grounds that characterize the ontology of vulnerability as either a state of passivity, victimhood, and helplessness and/or as forms of human and no...Loe edasi...
Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, dis/ability and Crip theory, this book offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of ability in art education and its relations...Loe edasi...
The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning fo...Loe edasi...
This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy....Loe edasi...
This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art....Loe edasi...
