|
Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques
|
Buy Now
Disability and Illness in Arts-Informed Research - Moving Toward Postconventional Representations (Hardcover, New)
Loot Price: R2,380
Discovery Miles 23 800
|
|
|
Disability and Illness in Arts-Informed Research - Moving Toward Postconventional Representations (Hardcover, New)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Disability and illness are not easy subjects to write about in a
direct manner. These are, however, the domains that most of us will
eventually inhabit. It is a simple fact that our bodies fail,
though our culture protests this at every occasion. The bodies of
disabled people have been deemed unworthy of textual representation
beyond the texts of medicine. The life stories of those who are
suffering are seen as tragic, fodder for stories of what happens to
the "other." The author (Nancy Halifax, assistant professor of
critical disability studies at York University) posits that the
sociopolitical structures of our culture limit the range of
disabled people's positions in the world; their absence in books
and other cultural products points to the absence of social equity.
The subjective experience of illness, impairment, and disability is
poorly reflected in most current models of health and disease used
in the practices and policies of medical and health institutions.
Those with illness, impairment, and disability see this deficiency
as a serious problem. This type of work that is called into
creation by its subjects exemplifies the notion that writers are
ethically preoccupied with telling stories, not only for oneself,
but also for others. This book defies and celebrates academic
writing; it presents a story of illness and disability, experiences
that collectively enrich and challenge our understandings of
embodiment, narrative, social structures, identity, and
politics-the full continuum of what it means and has meant, to be
human. This is a remarkable and important book for both
arts-informed researchers and educators and non-arts-informed
researchers and educators in cultural studies, critical disability
studies, education, health, and qualitative research.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
