Disability: Social Aspects

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. From sidew...

Winner of the DHA 2014 Outstanding Publication Award. Since the end of the 20th century, «disability» has become a new and effective research inst...

"To think of PDA as merely involving demand avoidance is to me akin to thinking of tigers as merely having stripes."This book is a unique window in...

Estimates suggest that up to 20% of employees, customers and clients might have a neurodivergent condition - such as dyslexia, autism, Asperger's, ...

This collection of narratives from autistic adults is structured around their decades of experience of life, covering 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70...

This insightful book investigates the experiences of seven women with autism as they transition from childhood to adulthood, and how they make sens...

Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and ra...

This book presents research on disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education settings using empirical data ...

The relationship between metal and disability is distinctive. Persisting across metal’s sub-genres is a preoccupation with exploring and questionin...

This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art. Notions...

From Unlikely Mavericks, To Movers And ShakersIn Chasing The Impossible, Rachelle Rutherford, the CEO of Kids On The Move, unravels the gripping st...

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora ...

This edited book makes an epistemic claim that disability studies’ approaches to curriculum are doing more than merely critiquing how privileged kn...

Inclusion in Tourism provides examples of discrimination and marginalisation in tourism practices and avenues designed to recognise and overcome pe...

This edited volume foregrounds Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) as an intersectional framework that has informed scholarly analyses of rac...