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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.
Blind Culture and Cosmologies: Notes from Ved Mehta's Continent of India
Blind Culture and Cosmologies: Notes from Ved Mehta's Continent of India
I squatted down on the narrow ledge between the streams and put a hand in each stream. The right stream felt glacial, and I could scarcely keep my hand in it. The left stream was thick and soupy, and felt almost tepid. I remember thinking that, in their way, the two streams were as different as Daddyji and Mamaji (Mehta 1984, 128).
Introduction
Ved Mehta (1934-) is a blind autobiographer and essayist. His autobiographical compendium, 11 books altogether, is known collectively by the series title Continents of Exile. Due to an idiosyncratic twist, Mehta's Continents signify much more than ...
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