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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.
Cutting across disciplines from science and technology studies to
the arts and humanities, this thought-provoking collection engages
with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and
knowledge in the context of COVID-19. The authors use the crisis as
a lens to explore the contours of contemporary societies and lay
bare the ways in which orthodox conceptions of the human condition
can benefit a privileged few. Highlighting the lived experiences of
marginalized groups from around the world, this is a
boundary-spanning critical intervention to ongoing debates about
the pandemic. It presents new ways of thinking in public policy,
culture and the economy, and points the way forward to a more
equitable and inclusive human future. Chapter 12 is available Open
Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Disabled people are routinely assumed to lack the capabilities and
capacities to embody and experience sexuality and desire, as well
as the agency to love and be loved by others, and build their own
families, if they so choose. Centring on the sexual, intimate and
erotic lives of disabled people, this book presents a rare
opportunity to understand and ask critical questions about such
widely held assumptions. In essence, this book is a collection of
sexual stories, told by disabled people on their own terms and in
their own ways. Stories that shed light on areas of disability,
love and life that are typically overlooked and ignored. A
sociological analysis of these stories reveals the creative ways in
which disabled people manage and negotiate their sexual and
intimate lives in contexts where these are habitually denied. In
its calls for disabled people's sexual and intimate citizenship,
stories are drawn upon as the means to create social change and
build more radically inclusive sexual cultures. In this ground
breaking feminist critical disability studies text, The Intimate
Lives of Disabled People introduces and contributes to contemporary
debates around disability, sexuality and intimacy in the 21st
century. Its arguments are relevant and accessible to researchers,
academics, and students across a wide range of disciplines - such
as sociology, gender studies, psychology, social work, and
philosophy - as well as disabled people, their families and allies,
and the professionals who work with and for them.
Disabled people are routinely assumed to lack the capabilities and
capacities to embody and experience sexuality and desire, as well
as the agency to love and be loved by others, and build their own
families, if they so choose. Centring on the sexual, intimate and
erotic lives of disabled people, this book presents a rare
opportunity to understand and ask critical questions about such
widely held assumptions. In essence, this book is a collection of
sexual stories, told by disabled people on their own terms and in
their own ways. Stories that shed light on areas of disability,
love and life that are typically overlooked and ignored. A
sociological analysis of these stories reveals the creative ways in
which disabled people manage and negotiate their sexual and
intimate lives in contexts where these are habitually denied. In
its calls for disabled people's sexual and intimate citizenship,
stories are drawn upon as the means to create social change and
build more radically inclusive sexual cultures. In this ground
breaking feminist critical disability studies text, The Intimate
Lives of Disabled People introduces and contributes to contemporary
debates around disability, sexuality and intimacy in the 21st
century. Its arguments are relevant and accessible to researchers,
academics, and students across a wide range of disciplines - such
as sociology, gender studies, psychology, social work, and
philosophy - as well as disabled people, their families and allies,
and the professionals who work with and for them.
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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