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Disability, Avoidance and the Academy - Challenging Resistance (Paperback)
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Disability, Avoidance and the Academy - Challenging Resistance (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
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Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially
universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world,
it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a
niche market or someone else's domain. This collection explores how
academic avoidance of disability studies and disability theory is
indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the
academy can and does engage with disability studies. This
innovative book brings together work in the humanities and the
social sciences, and draws on the riches of cultural diversity to
challenge institutional and disciplinary avoidance. Divided into
three parts, the first looks at how educational institutions and
systems implicitly uphold double standards, which can result in
negative experiences for staff and students who are disabled. The
second part explores how disability studies informs and improves a
number of academic disciplines, from social work to performance
arts. The final part shows how more diverse cultural engagement
offers a way forward for the academy, demonstrating ways in which
we can make more explicit the interdisciplinary significance of
disability studies - and, by extension, disability theory,
activism, experience, and culture. Disability, Avoidance and the
Academy: Challenging Resistance will interest students and scholars
of disability studies, education studies and cultural studies.
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