Disability: Social Aspects

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighti...

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighti...

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do no...

This book explores the intricate connections that link the current digitalization of manufacturing to our daily lives and identities as members of ...

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts lik...

One of the most conspicuous gaps in the now voluminous literature on populism is an understanding of populism in historical context. To what extent...

Out of Time? has many different meanings, amongst them outmoded, out of step, under time pressure, no time left, or simply delayed. In the disabili...

In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of the reasonable to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the in...

This title was first published in 2003. During the last twenty years, the longer-term sustainability of social insurance systems has become a major...

This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art the naked body.Beginning with reflections on wh...

While the visibility of disability studies has increased in recent years, few have thoroughly examined the marginalization of people with disabilit...

Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an analogy between the national ...

What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have mad...

This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spani...

Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers,...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point...

Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse ...

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 p...

Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in...

What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a con...

Identity (Re)constructions After Brain Injury: Personal and Family Identity investigates how being diagnosed with acquired brain injury (ABI) impac...

Prosthesis denotes a rhetorical addition to a pre-existing beginning, a replacement for that which is defective or absent, a technological mode of ...