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Disability in South Asia: Knowledge & Experience presents a comprehensive approach to various aspects of disability in South Asia. A critical work on disability studies, this book explores the full complexity of disability in its multi-layered, interactional dynamics. The book imparts understanding of the social, political and cultural construction of disability as opposed to the traditional perception of disability in terms of medical condition, biological trait, rehabilitation and special education. It focuses on foregrounding disability across various areas including education, law and sociology, critically exploring the interaction of gender and disability, and challenging the separation between theory and practice as well as academia and activism. The book shows how the inclusion of a disability perspective enriches scholarship by contributing to the understanding of social marginalization, oppression and the perception of difference. It highlights the lived experiences of people with disabilities to help readers develop a nuanced comprehension of disability.
Refocusing and the Paradigm Shift: From Disability to Studies in Ableism1
Refocusing and the Paradigm Shift: From Disability to Studies in Ableism1
Feminist Rosemary Tong (1999) long ago alluded to the profound possibilities of using a critical disability studies theory to recomprehend and respatialize the landscape of thinking about race and gender as sites of signification. This chapter presents a conversation in the emergent field of Studies in Ableism (SiA) and desires to not only problematize but also refuse the notion of able(ness). Our attention is on ableism's production and performance. Such an exploratory work is indebted to conversations already commenced by Campbell (1999, 2001, 2005, 2008a, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2017b), Hughes (2008) and Overboe ...
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