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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.
Disability within Rawlsian Framework of Justice: Challenging the Injustice Rationale
Disability within Rawlsian Framework of Justice: Challenging the Injustice Rationale
Political Theory and the ‘Disabled Subject’
Contemporary critical political theorizing in India is heavily influenced by both Dalit and feminist methodological frameworks of exclusion, discrimination and social justice. To analyse and research disability within the public policy framework in India is by default assumed to be a study of discriminatory and exclusionary practices and injustices faced by people with disabilities. While an emancipatory research paradigm espoused by disability researchers does call for such a politically empowering perspective for analysis and research, there are undoubtedly some dangers to the discrimination–exclusion reading of disability, including (but ...
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