Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Intellectual Disability and Being Human: A Care Ethics Model
1st Edition
By Chrissie Rogers
February 22, 2018
Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability. This pioneering book, in considering intellectually disabled ...
Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By David Bolt, Claire Penketh
January 24, 2018
Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability ...
Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities
1st Edition
By Janice McLaughlin, Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Emma Clavering
January 22, 2018
A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by ...
Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies
1st Edition
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By David Bolt
August 03, 2016
Whilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ...
Crises, Conflict and Disability: Ensuring Equality
1st Edition
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By David Mitchell, Valerie Karr
September 03, 2015
People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They experience higher mortality rates, have fewer available resources and less access to help, especially in refugee camps, as well as in post-disaster environments. Already ...
Disability, Hate Crime and Violence
1st Edition
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By Alan Roulstone, Hannah Mason-Bish
September 11, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its emergence on the policy agenda. Engaging with the latest debates in criminology, disability and violence studies, it goes beyond conventional notions of hate crime to look at ...
Towards a Contextual Psychology of Disablism
1st Edition
By Brian Watermeyer
March 27, 2014
In recent years, disability studies has been driven by a model of disability which focuses on the social and economic oppression of disabled people. Although an important counterbalance to a pathologising medical model, the social model risks presenting an impoverished and disembodied view of ...