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In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a
novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project - dis/ability
studies - an orientation that might encourage us to think again
about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing on a range
of interdisciplinary areas, including sociology, psychology,
education, policy and cultural studies, this much needed text takes
the most topical and important issues in critical disability
theory, and pushes them into new theoretical territory. Goodley
argues that we are entering a time of dis/ability studies, when
both categories of disability and ability require expanding upon as
a response to the global politics of neoliberal capitalism. Divided
into two parts, the first section traces the dual processes of
ableism and disablism, suggesting that one cannot exist without the
other, and makes the case for a research-driven and intersectional
analysis of dis/ability. The second section applies this new
analytical framework to a range of critical topics, including: The
biopolitics of dis/ability and debility Inclusive education
Psychopathology Markets, communities and civil society. Dis/ability
Studies provides much needed depth, texture and analysis in this
emerging discipline. This accessible text will appeal to students
and researchers of disability across a range of disciplines, as
well as disability activists, policymakers, and practitioners
working directly with disabled people.
Researching Life Stories critically and pragmatically reflects upon
the use of life stories in social and educational research. Using
four life stories as examples, the authors apply four different,
practical approaches to demonstrate effective research and
analysis.
As well as examining in detail the four life stories around which
the book is written, areas covered include:
* Method and methodology in life story research
* Analysis
* Reflections on analyses
* Craft and ethics in researching life
* Policy, practice and theory in life story research.
Throughout the book the authors demystify the issues surrounding
life story research and demonstrate the significance of this
approach to understanding individual and social worlds.
This unique approach to life story research will be a valuable
resource for all social science and education researchers at
undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Researching Life Stories critically and pragmatically reflects upon
the use of life stories in social and educational research. Using
four life stories as examples, the authors apply four different,
practical approaches to demonstrate effective research and
analysis.
As well as examining in detail the four life stories around which
the book is written, areas covered include:
* Method and methodology in life story research
* Analysis
* Reflections on analyses
* Craft and ethics in researching life
* Policy, practice and theory in life story research.
Throughout the book the authors demystify the issues surrounding
life story research and demonstrate the significance of this
approach to understanding individual and social worlds.
This unique approach to life story research will be a valuable
resource for all social science and education researchers at
undergraduate and postgraduate level.
DAN GOODLEY draws on two decades of research and writing and weaves
personal stories, scholarly literature, social media and other
cultural narratives together with concepts from the
interdisciplinary field of disability studies. His argument is
simple: disability invites great insight into the wider project of
understanding the human condition. Goodley argues that the study of
disability is of great importance in its own right but also has
much to offer us all in considering what it means to be human in
the 21st Century. Chapters address questions such as 'who's allowed
to be human?'; 'are human beings dependent?'; and 'what does it
mean to be human in the digital age?' and respond to these
questions in ways that get us thinking about how we might
productively engage with, listen to and understand one another.
This co-authored text critically explores the key findings of the
Living Life to the Fullest project - a project that has explored
the lives, thoughts, hopes and aspirations of disabled young people
living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Written
by disabled young people and academic researchers, the book
articulates ethical co-production in social research. The prolific
contemporary political and theoretical debates about life, death
and the human in an age of global precarity and austerity are
explored in this book. Chapters draw upon key themes and
co-researchers' priorities for writing about their lives: for
example, the politics and potentials of co-production as a research
method/ology; animal and human relationships; aging, time;
sexuality and body image; politics, activism and disability arts
and culture; and fragility, and death and dying.
Leave it to a dog to put the “human” back in “humanities”
In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan
Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book,
Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide
dog, Smokie, had taken offense to the suggestion that disability
was purely a human question, Michalko shared a few thoughts on
behalf of his dog. When Goodley wrote back—to Smokie—so began
an epistolic exchange that would continue for the next seven
months. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world and the
realities of lockdown-imposed isolation set in, the Smokie letters
provided the friends a space in which to come together in a lively
exploration of human-animal relationships and to interrogate
disability as disruption, disturbance, and art. Just as he did in
life, Smokie guides. In these pages, he offers wisdom about the
world, love, friendship, and even The Beatles. His canine
observations of human experience provide an avenue into some of the
ways blindness might be reconceptualized and “befriended.”
Uninhibited by the trappings of traditional academic inquiry,
Michalko and Goodley are unleashed, free to wander, to wonder, and
to provoke within the bonds of trust and respect. Funny and
thoughtful, the result is a refreshing exploration and
re-evaluation of learned cultural misunderstandings of disability.
In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a
novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project - dis/ability
studies - an orientation that might encourage us to think again
about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing on a range
of interdisciplinary areas, including sociology, psychology,
education, policy and cultural studies, this much needed text takes
the most topical and important issues in critical disability
theory, and pushes them into new theoretical territory. Goodley
argues that we are entering a time of dis/ability studies, when
both categories of disability and ability require expanding upon as
a response to the global politics of neoliberal capitalism. Divided
into two parts, the first section traces the dual processes of
ableism and disablism, suggesting that one cannot exist without the
other, and makes the case for a research-driven and intersectional
analysis of dis/ability. The second section applies this new
analytical framework to a range of critical topics, including: The
biopolitics of dis/ability and debility Inclusive education
Psychopathology Markets, communities and civil society. Dis/ability
Studies provides much needed depth, texture and analysis in this
emerging discipline. This accessible text will appeal to students
and researchers of disability across a range of disciplines, as
well as disability activists, policymakers, and practitioners
working directly with disabled people.
"This book provides an introduction to four widely used qualitative
research methods, followed by a detailed discussion of a
pluralistic approach to qualitative research?makes exceellent use
of questions both in order to help the reader gain clarity as well
as to encourage reflexivity" The Psychologist, May 2012
Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes
damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this
book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can
surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century. Arguing that
autism can only be understood through examining 'it' as a socially
or culturally produced phenomenon, the authors offer a critique of
the medical model that has produced a perpetually marginalising
approach to autism, and explain the contradictions and difficulties
inherent in existing attitudes. They examine and dispute the
scientific validity of diagnosis and 'treatment', asking whether
autism actually exists at the biological level, and question the
value of diagnosis in the lives of those labelled with autism. The
book recognises that there are no easy answers but encourages
engagement with these essential questions, and looks towards
service provision and practice that moves beyond a reliance on
all-encompassing labels. This unique contribution to the growing
field of critical autism studies brings together authors from
clinical psychiatry, clinical and community psychology, social
sciences, disability studies, education and cultural studies, as
well as those with personal experiences of autism. It is essential
and challenging reading for anyone with a personal, professional or
academic interest in 'autism'.
Passionate, engaging and challenging, this second edition of the
ground-breaking Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Introduction is a contemporary introduction to this diverse and
complex field. Taking an interdisciplinary and critical approach,
the book: examines a diverse range of theories and perspectives and
engages with current debates in the field explores key areas of
analysis, with chapters devoted to the individual, society,
community and education applies a global perspective encompassing
examples from the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, the US, and Canada.
Encouraging and stimulating readers using thought-provoking
questions, exercises and activities, Disability Studies is a rich
and rewarding read for students and researchers engaging with
disability across the social sciences.
Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals,
including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus
groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability
studies theories.
Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals,
including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus
groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability
studies theories.
How do people with the label of learning difficulties challenge
disabling environments? what role can professionals play in
supporting such challenges? how do self-advocacy groups contribute
to disability politics and the development of theories of
disability?;This timely book sets out to answer these questions for
students, teachers and practitioners working in the field. It
examines self-advocacy in the lives of people with learning
difficulties. The term "learning difficulties" is used to describe
people who have been labelled at some point in their lives as
requiring specialist "mental handicap services". Learning
difficulties is preferred over other synonyms such as mental
handicap, mental impairment or learning disabilities, because it is
the term preferred by many in the self-advocacy movement (the focus
of this book).;Hitherto, a number of books have introduced and
examined the notion of self-advocacy. This volume goes beyond these
studies to offer an appraisal of self-advocacy in the lives of
people with learning difficulties that is grounded in their own
experiences. It redresses the dominant focus on learning
difficulties as pathology or tragedy, highlighting the ways in
Passionate, engaging and challenging, this second edition of the
ground-breaking Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Introduction is a contemporary introduction to this diverse and
complex field. Taking an interdisciplinary and critical approach,
the book: examines a diverse range of theories and perspectives and
engages with current debates in the field explores key areas of
analysis, with chapters devoted to the individual, society,
community and education applies a global perspective encompassing
examples from the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, the US, and Canada.
Encouraging and stimulating readers using thought-provoking
questions, exercises and activities, Disability Studies is a rich
and rewarding read for students and researchers engaging with
disability across the social sciences.
Disability is not just the physical, sensory or intellectual
impairments a person has, but the exclusion from society they face
as a result. Organisations for disabled people are a growing voice
in challenging this exclusion and Anti-Discrimination legislation
is helping to change the structures in society that have
contributed to it. This book examines the discipline of psychology
in this regard. It argues that psychology has tended to ignore the
socio-cultural aspects of disability and treat disabled people as
objects rather than arbiters of psychological intervention.
Bringing together disabled and non-disabled researchers and
psychologists, this book proposes ideas for an enabling
psychological theory and practice, and addresses questions such as:
" How can we support the inclusion of disabled children? " Can
therapy enable rather than pathologise? " What can be learnt from
the experience of disabled psychologists? " How can psychology
contribute to social models of disability? In examining these
issues, this volume challenges the reader to reconsider the
relationship between disability studies and psychology and to do so
in ways that contribute to the emancipation - rather than the
exclusion - of disabled people. A key text for students on relevant
courses within Disability Studies and Psychology degrees, this book
is also an important resource for those who study or work in the
areas of healthcare studies, nursing, sociology and social work.
Dan Goodley is a Reader in Disability Studies, University of
Sheffield, with research interests in disability theory, activism
and methodology. Rebecca Lawthom is Principal Lecturer in
Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of the
Research Institute for Health and Social Change. Her research
interests are in disability, community and feminist psychology.
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