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Routledge Advances in Disability Studies

31 Series Titles


Disability as a Boundary Object Combining Inclusivity, Value and Therapy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for People with Cognitive Difficulties

How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for People with Cognitive Difficulties

1st Edition

By Kjeld Høgsbro
June 30, 2021

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in undertaking institutional ethnographic work involving people with cognitive and communicative disabilities.It presents a coherent platform for integrating ...

Students with Disabilities and the Transition to Work A Capabilities Approach

Students with Disabilities and the Transition to Work: A Capabilities Approach

1st Edition

By Oliver Mutanga
March 31, 2021

This book sets out to understand how students with disabilities experience higher education and the transition to the workplace. It foregrounds the voices of students and graduates in order to explore identity, inclusion, participation and success of youth with disabilities in higher education, as ...

Understanding Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Adults

Understanding Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities in Adults

1st Edition

By Dreenagh Lyle
March 31, 2021

This book explores what happens to people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) when they reach adulthood. It provides an examination of various terms and definitions in use and a critical exploration of current UK policies.The author brings a wealth of many years’ experience ...

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