Disability Studies - Sociology Books

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1. Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

   Edited by Michael Rasell, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova

   There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-61096-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies

   Edited by Carol Thomas, Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone

   A detailed and up-to-date overview, the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies provides an authoritative overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters and arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57400-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Disability and New Media

   By Katie Ellis, Mike Kent

   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...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-87135-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Arguing about Disability: Philosophical Perspectives

   Edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas, Tom Shakespeare

   Disability is a thorny and muddled concept - especially in the field of disability studies - and social accounts contest with more traditional biologically based approaches in highly politicized debates. Sustained theoretical scrutiny has sometimes been lost amongst the controversy and...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-58853-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Disability in Medieval Europe: Thinking about Physical Impairment in the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400

   By Irina Metzler

   This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-58204-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Disability Studies Reader, 3rd Edition

   Edited by Lennard J. Davis

   The Disability Studies Reader is the most comprehensive introduction to in disability studies. Now in its third edition, it contains a wide range of seminal, cutting-edge and classic articles in the field. The collection covers cultural studies, identity politics, literary criticism, sociology,...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-87376-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

   Edited by Bruce Henderson, Noam Ostrander

   This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-56553-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Rethinking Disability: Bodies, Senses, and Things

   By Michael Schillmeier

   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...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-99325-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum

   Edited by Richard Sandell, Jocelyn Dodd, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

   Re-Presenting Disability addresses issues surrounding disability representation in museums and galleries, a topic which is receiving much academic attention and is becoming an increasingly pressing issue for practitioners working in wide-ranging museums and related cultural organisations. This...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-49473-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Islam and Disability: Perspectives in Theology and Jurisprudence

    By Mohammed Ghaly

    This book explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. It investigates how early and modern Muslim scholars tried to reconcile their existence with the concept of a merciful God, and also looks at how people with disabilities might live a dignified...

    December 2009 | 978-0-415-54757-4 | Hardback (Routledge)