Disability Studies - Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. Disability and New Media

   By Katie Ellis, Mike Kent

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. African American Slavery and Disability

   Bodies, Property and Power in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

   By Dea Boster

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health, mistreatment and abuse, but constructs of how "able" and "disabled" bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in African American slavery from the primary...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Life and Death Decisions

   The Quest for Morality and Justice in Human Societies

   By Sheldon Ekland-Olson

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

   Edited by Bent Greve

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   ‘The welfare state’ in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around the welfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film

   Plus Ultra Pluralism

   By Matthew J. Marr

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Olympic Ethics and Philosophy

   Edited by Mike McNamee, Jim Parry

   This book contains an international collection of essays by leading philosophers of sport on the ethics and philosophy of the Olympic Games. The essays consider a range of topics including critical reflections on nationalism and internationalism within the Olympic movement, sexism in...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies

   Rights, Spaces and Innovations

   Edited by Michele Moore

   What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people’s lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion? This book draws together the...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Rethinking Disability

   Bodies, Senses, and Things

   By Michael Schillmeier

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Drama, Disability and Education

   A critical exploration for students and practitioners

   By Andy Kempe

   What can society learn about disability through the way it is portrayed in TV, films and plays? This insightful and accessible text explores and analyses the way disability is portrayed in drama, and how that portrayal may be interpreted by young audiences. Investigating how disabilities have been...

   Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Critical Histories of Accounting

    Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era

    Edited by Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick Funnell, Stephen Walker

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned...

    Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge