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A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in
the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor
their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled
children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find
themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are
examined. This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative
research to look at how disabled children have been cared for,
treated and categorised. Narrative and longitudinal interviews with
children and their families, along with stories and images they
have produced and notes from observations of different spaces in
their lives - medical consultation rooms, cafes and leisure
centres, homes, classrooms and playgrounds amongst others - all
make a contribution. Bringing this wealth of empirical data
together with conceptual ideas from disability studies, sociology
of the body, childhood studies, symbolic interactionism and
feminist critical theory, the authors explore the multiple ways in
which monitoring occurs within childhood disability and its social
effects. Their discussion includes examining the dynamics of
differentiation via medicine, social interaction, and embodiment
and the multiple actors - including children and young people
themselves - involved. The book also investigates the practices
that differentiate children into different categories and what this
means for notions of normality, integration, belonging and
citizenship. Scrutinising the multiple forms of monitoring around
disabled children and the consequences they generate for how we
think about childhood and what is 'normal', this volume sits at the
intersection of disability studies and childhood studies.
A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in
the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor
their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled
children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find
themselves surrounded by multiple practices through which they are
examined. This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative
research to look at how disabled children have been cared for,
treated and categorised. Narrative and longitudinal interviews with
children and their families, along with stories and images they
have produced and notes from observations of different spaces in
their lives - medical consultation rooms, cafes and leisure
centres, homes, classrooms and playgrounds amongst others - all
make a contribution. Bringing this wealth of empirical data
together with conceptual ideas from disability studies, sociology
of the body, childhood studies, symbolic interactionism and
feminist critical theory, the authors explore the multiple ways in
which monitoring occurs within childhood disability and its social
effects. Their discussion includes examining the dynamics of
differentiation via medicine, social interaction, and embodiment
and the multiple actors - including children and young people
themselves - involved. The book also investigates the practices
that differentiate children into different categories and what this
means for notions of normality, integration, belonging and
citizenship. Scrutinising the multiple forms of monitoring around
disabled children and the consequences they generate for how we
think about childhood and what is 'normal', this volume sits at the
intersection of disability studies and childhood studies.
How does new information technology become part of the fabric of
organisational life? Drawing on insights from social studies of
technology, gender studies and the sociology of consumption,
Valuing Technology opens up new directions in the analysis of
sociotechnical change within organisations. Based on a major
research project focused upon the introduction of management of
information systems in health, higher education and retailing, I
explores the active role of end-users in innovation.
This book argues that it is through the, often difficult,
engagement between users and technology that new computer systems
come to gain value within organisations. Key themes developed
through analysis of case studies include:
*the valuing of technology via the on-going construction of needs,
uses and utilities
*occupational identities, organisational inequalities and
technological change
*the gendering of technological and organisational change
*interpretive flexibility and the 'stabilisation' of technological
systems and their incorporation into the lives of people in
organisations.
A stimulating blend of the theoretical and substantive, this book
demands a radical redefinition of 'technology acquisition'. It's
highly original approach makes Valuing Technology essential reading
for students, lecturers and researchers within the fields of
organisation studies and the sociology of technology.
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