Many critical analyses of disability address important 'macro'
concerns, but are often far removed from an interactional and
micro-level focus. Written by leading scholars in the field, and
containing a range of theoretical and empirical contributions from
around the world, this book focuses on the taken-for-granted,
mundane human activities at the heart of how social life is
reproduced, and how this impacts on the lives of those with a
disability, family members, and other allies. It departs from
earlier accounts by making sense of how disability is lived,
mobilised, and enacted in everyday lives. Although broad in focus
and navigating diverse social contexts, chapters are united by a
concern with foregrounding micro, mundane moments for making sense
of powerful discourses, practices, affects, relations, and
world-making for disabled people and their allies. Using different
examples - including learning disabilities, cerebral palsy,
dementia, polio, and Parkinson's disease - contributions move
beyond a simplified narrow classification of disability which
creates rigid categories of existence and denies bodily variation.
Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday should be considered
essential reading for disability studies students and academics, as
well as professionals involved in health and social care. With
contributions located within new and familiar debates around
embodiment, stigma, gender, identity, inequality, care, ethics,
choice, materiality, youth, and representation, this book will be
of interest to academics from different disciplinary backgrounds
including sociology, anthropology, humanities, public health,
allied health professions, science and technology studies, social
work, and social policy.
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