Description
| Product ID: | 9780415827225 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Dis/ability Studies |
| Subtitle: | Theorising disablism and ableism |
| Authors: | Author: Dan Goodley |
| Page Count: | 204 |
| Subjects: | Disability: social aspects, Disability: social aspects, Sociology, Social work, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Social, group or collective psychology, Personal and public health / health education, Medical sociology, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability, Sociology, Social work, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Social, group or collective psychology, Personal & public health, Medical sociology, Coping with disability |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In this pioneering new work, Dan Goodley develops an important new line of enquiry into the comparison of the non-disabled and disabled and disrupting the boundaries between them. This accessible text will appeal to students and researchers of disability across a range of disciplines, as well as disability activists, policymakers, and practitioners working directly with disabled people. In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project – dis/ability studies – an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary areas, including sociology, psychology, education, policy and cultural studies, this much needed text takes the most topical and important issues in critical disability theory, and pushes them into new theoretical territory. Goodley argues that we are entering a time of dis/ability studies, when both categories of disability and ability require expanding upon as a response to the global politics of neoliberal capitalism. Divided into two parts, the first section traces the dual processes of ableism and disablism, suggesting that one cannot exist without the other, and makes the case for a research-driven and intersectional analysis of dis/ability. The second section applies this new analytical framework to a range of critical topics, including:
Dis/ability Studies provides much needed depth, texture and analysis in this emerging discipline. This accessible text will appeal to students and researchers of disability across a range of disciplines, as well as disability activists, policymakers, and practitioners working directly with disabled people. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-04-28 |
