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A History of Disability and Art Education

A History of Disability and Art Education

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Claire Penketh
August 11, 2023

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, dis/ability and Crip theory, this book offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of ability in art education and its relationship with disability. Drawing on the work of ...

Design, Disability and Embodiment Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power

Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Janice Rieger
July 31, 2023

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts like going for a walk, seeing an exhibition with a friend, and going to school are, for people with disabilities, conditional or precluded acts due to ...

Defining the Boundaries of Disability Critical Perspectives

Defining the Boundaries of Disability: Critical Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Licia Carlson, Matthew C. Murray
September 26, 2022

This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of disability, a vibrant disability ...

The New Political Economy of Disability Transnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism

The New Political Economy of Disability: Transnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism

1st Edition

By Georgia van Toorn
August 29, 2022

This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and across different countries through cross-national investigation of individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy mobility. Combining rich theoretical ...

How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for People with Cognitive Difficulties

How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for People with Cognitive Difficulties

1st Edition

By Kjeld Høgsbro
October 17, 2019

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in undertaking institutional ethnographic work involving people with cognitive and communicative disabilities. It presents a coherent platform for integrating ...

A Historical Sociology of Disability Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity

A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity

1st Edition

By Bill Hughes
October 08, 2019

Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled people have been treated in Western society as good to mistreat and – with the rise of Christianity – good to be good to. It examines the place and role of disabled people in the moral ...

Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation

Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability: Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation

1st Edition

By Niklas Altermark
September 11, 2019

What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made ‘citizenship inclusion’ their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy, social theory, and disability studies, this book ...

Intellectual Disability and the Right to a Sexual Life A Continuation of the Autonomy/Paternalism Debate

Intellectual Disability and the Right to a Sexual Life: A Continuation of the Autonomy/Paternalism Debate

1st Edition

By Simon Foley
September 11, 2019

One of the perennial political/philosophical questions concerns whether it is ever justifiable for a third party to paternalistically restrict an adult’s freedom to ensure their own, or society’s, best interests are protected. Wherever one stands on this debate it remains the case that, unlike ...

Students with Disabilities and the Transition to Work A Capabilities Approach

Students with Disabilities and the Transition to Work: A Capabilities Approach

1st Edition

By Oliver Mutanga
July 15, 2019

This book sets out to understand how students with disabilities experience higher education and the transition to the workplace. It foregrounds the voices of students and graduates in order to explore identity, inclusion, participation and success of youth with disabilities in higher education, as ...

Understanding Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Adults

Understanding Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Adults

1st Edition

By Dreenagh Lyle
June 25, 2019

This book explores what happens to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) when they reach adulthood. It provides an examination of various terms and definitions in use and a critical exploration of current UK policies. The author brings a wealth of many years’ experience...

Disability, Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion

Disability, Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion

1st Edition

Edited By Karen Soldatic, Hannah Morgan, Alan Roulstone
May 07, 2019

Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame operating within the realm of disability. ...

A Sensory Sociology of Autism Habitual Favourites

A Sensory Sociology of Autism: Habitual Favourites

1st Edition

By Robert Rourke
March 20, 2019

This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic individuals within a sociological framework. It instigates new discussions around sensory experience, autism and how disability and ability can be reconceived. Autism is commonly understood to involve social and communication ...

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