New Narratives of Disability - Constructions, Clashes, and Controversies (Hardcover)

This volume explores questions about narrative frameworks in disability research. Narrative is a omnipresent meaning-producing communication form in social life that is both cultural and personal. Public understandings of disability tend to follow a medical storyline in which disability is a personal tragedy to be treated through professional intervention - a frame that disempowers and fails to resonate with many disabled people. Scholars in disability studies and the social sciences have proposed an alternative that portrays social structures, forces, and attitudes as the problems to be resolved - a frame that, while empowering, may neglect, or even repress, some kinds of personal disability stories. This volume seeks to answer the call for richer, more diverse understandings of disability. We explore how narrative inquiry can broaden perspectives on disability to include pain, suffering, chronic illness, and episodic disability, as well as the perspectives of family members and caregivers, while also serving as a platform for dismantling prejudice and discrimination in order to promote positive social change.

General

Imprint:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Research in Social Science and Disability
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2020
Editors:	Sara E. Green • Donileen R. Loseke
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-83909-144-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems
LSN:	1-83909-144-4
Barcode:	9781839091445

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