Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Disability as a Boundary Object: Combining Inclusivity, Value and Therapy
1st Edition
By Per Koren Solvang
October 30, 2025
The concept of disability is actively used by social justice movements and welfare state systems, but it is often rejected by people involved with patient organisations, neurodiversity movements and comparable diversity proponents. This book unites these social actor positions by outlining an ...
Disabling Migration Controls: Shared Learning, Solidarity, and Collective Resistance
1st Edition
By Rebecca Yeo
August 29, 2025
When people are prevented from meeting their needs, the impact is disabling, whether in the immigration system or in the wider population. Drawing on many years of research and activism, this book argues that insights from the disabled people’s movement, particularly the original Social Model of ...
Learning Disability and Everyday Life
1st Edition
By Alex Cockain
July 31, 2025
Learning Disability and Everyday Life brings into conversation ideas from social theory with “thick” descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism. This book is markedly ethnographic in its orientation to the gritty graininess of everyday life—eating, ...
An Introduction to Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Intersecting Terrains
1st Edition
Edited
By Shaun Grech, Jörg Weber
March 31, 2025
This first of its kind volume introduces Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) in unprecedented critical and interdisciplinary ways covering the complex conceptual, theoretical and practice terrain. Established and emerging scholars and practitioners introduce and probe key ...
A History of Disability and Art Education
1st Edition
By Claire Penketh
December 18, 2024
Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory, this book offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of ability in art education and its relationship with disability. Drawing on the work of Cizek ...
Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power
1st Edition
By Janice Rieger
November 29, 2024
This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts like going for a walk, seeing an exhibition with a friend, and going to school are, for people with disabilities, conditional or precluded acts due to ...
The Lives of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Angharad E. Beckett, Anne-Marie Callus
January 04, 2024
This book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in disability studies, childhood studies, medicine and health sciences, and sociology. It also provides insights that will be of use and value to professionals working with disabled children and adolescents in education,...
Defining the Boundaries of Disability: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Licia Carlson, Matthew C. Murray
September 26, 2022
This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of disability, a vibrant disability ...
The New Political Economy of Disability: Transnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Georgia van Toorn
August 29, 2022
This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and across different countries through cross-national investigation of individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy mobility. Combining rich theoretical ...
A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity
1st Edition
By Bill Hughes
October 08, 2019
Covering the period from Antiquity to Early Modernity, A Historical Sociology of Disability argues that disabled people have been treated in Western society as good to mistreat and – with the rise of Christianity – good to be good to. It examines the place and role of disabled people in the moral ...
Citizenship Inclusion and Intellectual Disability: Biopolitics Post-Institutionalisation
1st Edition
By Niklas Altermark
September 11, 2019
What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made ‘citizenship inclusion’ their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy, social theory, and disability studies, this book ...
Intellectual Disability and the Right to a Sexual Life: A Continuation of the Autonomy/Paternalism Debate
1st Edition
By Simon Foley
September 11, 2019
One of the perennial political/philosophical questions concerns whether it is ever justifiable for a third party to paternalistically restrict an adult’s freedom to ensure their own, or society’s, best interests are protected. Wherever one stands on this debate it remains the case that, unlike ...