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Disability in South Asia : Knowledge and Experience.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : SAGE Publications India Pvt, Ltd., 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (493 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789352807093
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.9/080954
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Disability Studies -- Chapter 1 Disability Rights Law and Origin of Disability Rights Movement in India -- Chapter 2 Emergence of Disability Rights Movement in India -- Chapter 3 Refocusing and the Paradigm Shift -- Chapter 4 Disability within Rawlsian Framework of Justice -- Chapter 5 Disability Studies as Resistance -- PART 2 Body, Care and Sexuality -- Chapter 6 Experiencing the Body -- Chapter 7 Emergence of Epistemological Questions of Crip Queer across Shifting Geo/Bio-political Terrain -- Chapter 8 Ethics and Practice of Care -- PART 3 Knowing the Self and Writing Life -- Chapter 9 Privilege or Marginalization -- Chapter 10 Journey So Far -- Chapter 11 Narratives of Growing with A-typicality -- Chapter 12 Life-writing and Disabled Self in the Works of Oliver W. Sacks -- Chapter 13 Blind Culture and Cosmologies -- PART 4 Disability in Literature and Culture -- Chapter 14 Disability across Cultures -- Chapter 15 Corporeality and Cultural Difference -- Chapter 16 Interrogating Normalcy, Decolonizing Disability -- Chapter 17 Jataka Katha Goes On -- PART 5 Disability, Family Epistemologies and Resistance to Shame within the Indian Context -- Chapter 18 Disability, Family Epistemologies and Resistance to Shame within the Indian Context -- Chapter 19 Inclusive Education in India -- Chapter 20 The Emancipatory Potential of a Structural Understanding of Disability -- Chapter 21 Disability at Work? Media Representations, CSR and Diversity -- PART 6 Legal Discourses of Disability in India -- Chapter 22 A Disability Studies Reading of the Law for Persons with Disabilities in India -- Chapter 23 Reimagining Kinship in Disability-specific Domesticity -- PART 7 Constructing Disability as Diversity -- Chapter 24 Disability as Diversity.
Chapter 25Unification of Disability inDiversity -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.
Summary: A book that changes the understanding of disability from a medicalised category to a social category.
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Disability Studies -- Chapter 1 Disability Rights Law and Origin of Disability Rights Movement in India -- Chapter 2 Emergence of Disability Rights Movement in India -- Chapter 3 Refocusing and the Paradigm Shift -- Chapter 4 Disability within Rawlsian Framework of Justice -- Chapter 5 Disability Studies as Resistance -- PART 2 Body, Care and Sexuality -- Chapter 6 Experiencing the Body -- Chapter 7 Emergence of Epistemological Questions of Crip Queer across Shifting Geo/Bio-political Terrain -- Chapter 8 Ethics and Practice of Care -- PART 3 Knowing the Self and Writing Life -- Chapter 9 Privilege or Marginalization -- Chapter 10 Journey So Far -- Chapter 11 Narratives of Growing with A-typicality -- Chapter 12 Life-writing and Disabled Self in the Works of Oliver W. Sacks -- Chapter 13 Blind Culture and Cosmologies -- PART 4 Disability in Literature and Culture -- Chapter 14 Disability across Cultures -- Chapter 15 Corporeality and Cultural Difference -- Chapter 16 Interrogating Normalcy, Decolonizing Disability -- Chapter 17 Jataka Katha Goes On -- PART 5 Disability, Family Epistemologies and Resistance to Shame within the Indian Context -- Chapter 18 Disability, Family Epistemologies and Resistance to Shame within the Indian Context -- Chapter 19 Inclusive Education in India -- Chapter 20 The Emancipatory Potential of a Structural Understanding of Disability -- Chapter 21 Disability at Work? Media Representations, CSR and Diversity -- PART 6 Legal Discourses of Disability in India -- Chapter 22 A Disability Studies Reading of the Law for Persons with Disabilities in India -- Chapter 23 Reimagining Kinship in Disability-specific Domesticity -- PART 7 Constructing Disability as Diversity -- Chapter 24 Disability as Diversity.

Chapter 25Unification of Disability inDiversity -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.

A book that changes the understanding of disability from a medicalised category to a social category.

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