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Critical theory and disability : a phenomenological approach /
Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, partic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Colección: | Critical theory and contemporary society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Key ideas; Methodological considerations; The Bulgarian context; Personal reflections; Notes; Chapter 2 The body; Body, realism, and disability studies; The British social model of disability; Updating the social model; Rejecting the social model; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 3 Disability assessment; Disability assessment in Bulgaria; Linking medicalization and productivism; Transformations of modernity and attempts at changing the status quo; Disability assessment statement as a boundary object.
- Three social worldsThe administrative and the sociopolitical: Coordination, standardization, and naturalization; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 4 Personal assistance; The European Center for Excellence in Personal Assistance project; From autonomy to interdependence; Putting the shift in context; Self-driven customers?; Choice and control revisited; Collective action for legislative change; Collective action after legislative change; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 5 Discrimination; A phenomenological approach to space and time; Objectification; Space; Time; Nonhuman entities.
- Concluding remarksNotes; Chapter 6 Media representations of inaccessibility; Defamiliarization and uncanniness; Encounters with stairs; Bodies and human activity; Human activity and self-definition; Illuminating the strangeness of the familiar; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 7 Sexuality; "I, my impairment and sex"; "We talk about sex"; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 8 The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; The Convention; The juridical dimension of interpretation; The extra-juridical dimension of interpretation; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 9 Conclusions.