Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
A Sensory Sociology of Autism: Habitual Favourites
1st Edition
By Robert Rourke
December 18, 2020
This innovative book places the sensory experiences of autistic individuals within a sociological framework. It instigates new discussions around sensory experience, autism and how disability and ability can be reconceived.Autism is commonly understood to involve social and communication ...
Disability and Shopping: Customers, Markets and the State
1st Edition
By Ieva Eskytė
September 30, 2020
Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers, industry and civil society. It discusses how the interaction between the three stakeholders should be shaped at aiming to decrease inequality and ...
Institutional Violence and Disability: Punishing Conditions
1st Edition
By Kate Rossiter, Jen Rinaldi
June 30, 2020
"This was several times with that damn cribbage board. I hate cribbage boards to this very day. They never beat us on the arms or legs or stuff, it was always on the bottom of the feet, I couldn't figure it out." Brian L., Huronia Regional Centre SurvivorOver the past two decades, the public has ...
The Changing Disability Policy System: Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 1
1st Edition
Edited
By Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Jerome Bickenbach, Delia Ferri, Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez
June 30, 2020
Being an ‘active citizen’ involves exercising social rights and duties, enjoying choice and autonomy, and participating in political decision-making processes which are of importance for one’s life. Amid the new challenges facing contemporary welfare states, debate over just how ‘active’ citizens ...
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 ...
Disability, Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Soldatic, Hannah Morgan, Alan Roulstone
May 07, 2019
Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame operating within the realm of disability. ...
Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Nine Countries: Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Julie Beadle Brown, Mario Biggeri, Jan Tøssebro, Anne Waldschmidt
January 23, 2019
Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to be full and active members of society. The policy reforms have aimed to change the balance between citizens’ rights and duties and&...
Autism in a Decentered World
1st Edition
By Alice Wexler
September 10, 2018
Autistic people are empirically and scientifically generalized as living in a fragmented, alternate reality, without a coherent continuous self. In Part I, this book presents recent neuropsychological research and its implications for existing theories of autism, selfhood, and identity, challenging...
Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide
1st Edition
By David Bolt
June 26, 2018
Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this book the three areas become united in a new field that recognises education as a discourse between tutors ...
Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies
1st Edition
By Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen French Gilson
May 09, 2018
Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label their worth and value, design and branding can wield immense but currently unharnessed powers of ...