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Disability Studies is an area of study which examines social,
political, cultural, and economic factors that define 'disability'
and establish personal and collective responses to difference. This
insightful new text will introduce readers to the discipline of
Disability Studies and enable them to engage in the lively debates
within the field. By offering an accessible yet rigorous approach
to Disability Studies, the authors provide a critical analysis of
key current issues and consider ways in which the subject can be
studied through national and international perspectives, policies,
culture and history. Key debates include: The relationship between
activism and the academy Ways to study cultural and media
representations of disability The importance of disability history
and how societies can change National and international
perspectives on children, childhood and education Political
perspectives on disability and identity The place of the body in
disability theory This text offers real-world examples of topics
that are important to debates and offers a much needed truly
international scope on the questions at hand. It is an essential
read for any individual studying, practising or with an interest in
Disability Studies.
Disability Studies is an area of study which examines social,
political, cultural, and economic factors that define 'disability'
and establish personal and collective responses to difference. This
insightful new text will introduce readers to the discipline of
Disability Studies and enable them to engage in the lively debates
within the field. By offering an accessible yet rigorous approach
to Disability Studies, the authors provide a critical analysis of
key current issues and consider ways in which the subject can be
studied through national and international perspectives, policies,
culture and history. Key debates include: The relationship between
activism and the academy Ways to study cultural and media
representations of disability The importance of disability history
and how societies can change National and international
perspectives on children, childhood and education Political
perspectives on disability and identity The place of the body in
disability theory This text offers real-world examples of topics
that are important to debates and offers a much needed truly
international scope on the questions at hand. It is an essential
read for any individual studying, practising or with an interest in
Disability Studies.
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.
"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
Disabled children's lives have often been discussed through medical
concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western
understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against
child development 'norms' and have provided the rationale for
segregated or 'special' welfare and education provision. In
contrast, disabled children's childhood studies begins with the
view that studies of children's impairment are not studies of their
childhoods. Disabled children's childhood studies demands ethical
research practices that position disabled children and young people
at the centre of the inquiry outside of the shadow of perceived
'norms'. The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children's Childhood
Studies will be of interest to students and scholars across a range
of disciplines, as well as practitioners in health, education,
social work and youth work.
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