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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.
The Emancipatory Potential of a Structural Understanding of Disability: A Response to Linda Ware
The Emancipatory Potential of a Structural Understanding of Disability: A Response to Linda Ware
Introduction
In her essay ‘Many Possible Futures, Many Different Directions: Merging Critical Special Education and Disability Studies’ (2005), Linda Ware explores the contributions that disability studies could make to critical special education. She observes that the regressive history of special education with its focus on behaviourist and positivist approaches and the preponderance of the medical model of disability have limited the success of critical special education studies. This is primarily because of the persistence of the term ‘special education’ even in critical appropriations of this body of knowledge. But disability studies, she ...
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