Understanding Disability
Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches
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This edited volume brings together contributions on disability studies organized around two themes: literary and sociological aspects. The contributors include academics, disability activists, and researchers from within and outside the Indian periphery. While the book strengthens the disability discourse and contributes to building academic scholarship on this subject, it also promotes disability activism by giving space to both direct practitioners and persons with disabilities. The chapters discuss various analytical and literary aspects of the marginalization experienced by the disabled community and bring forth new and elaborate perspectives. It draws connections across multiple identities and includes personal narratives across nations, cultures and societies. It is an excellent research resource on disability studies in India for scholars and students in the area of humanities, education, law, sociology and social work, while at the same time also addressing the global context.
This edited volume brings together contributions on disability studies organized around two themes: literary and sociological aspects. The contributors include academics, disability activists, and researchers from within and outside the Indian periphery. While the book strengthens the disability discourse and contributes to building academic scholarship on this subject, it also promotes disability activism by giving space to both direct practitioners and persons with disabilities. The chapters discuss various analytical and literary aspects of the marginalization experienced by the disabled community and bring forth new and elaborate perspectives. It draws connections across multiple identities and includes personal narratives across nations, cultures and societies. It is an excellent research resource on disability studies in India for scholars and students in the area of humanities, education, law, sociology and social work, while at the same time also addressing the global context.
Covers various perspectives on disability, including social and cultural dimensions Examines issues, such as politics of gender; ethics of care; language and psychoanalysis in literature and films Includes empirical and lived realities both in real life and in literature
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Ranu Uniyal
Themen in »Understanding Disability«
Intellectual or Verbal Disability Social Role Valorization Disability Studies in India Disability and Discrimination Disability and Gender
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“This book is an exploration of a potentially emerging area of disability studies. … Each part locates the disabled experience in a distinct field of theory and practice, arts and culture, and social and political interventions. … Most importantly, though registering the traumas of disability faced by people in real life, the book retains an optimistic approach forcing, suggesting, and manifesting the positive changes in accommodating the interests of disabled people in society, culture, institutions, infrastructure, mindsets, and popular imagination.” (Raj Gaurav Verma, Asiatic, Vol. 18 (1), June, 2024)
“The book takes a deep dive into the topic of disability ... . The book also sheds light on how Disability Studies has become an emerging academic field … . I found the book to be well-organised and easy to comprehend, even though it covers some complex and medical aspects of disability. ... On the bright side, the book is available in a digital format that enables readers to keep track of any essay updates.” (Nikita Yadav, Rhetorica - A Literary Journal of Arts, Vol. 4 (1), 2024)
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