Barriers and Belonging -

Barriers and Belonging

Personal Narratives of Disability
Buch | Softcover
286 Seiten
2017
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-1388-8 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? The editors and contributors to this essential anthology, Barriers and Belonging, provide thirty-seven personal narratives thatexplore what it means to be disabled and why the field of disability studies matters. 

The editors frame the volume by introducing foundational themes of disability studies. They provide a context of how institutions—including the family, schools, government, and disability peer organizations—shape and transform ideas about disability. They explore how disability informs personal identity, interpersonal and community relationships, and political commitments. In addition, there are heartfelt reflections on living with mobility disabilities, blindness, deafness, pain, autism, psychological disabilities, and other issues. Other essays articulate activist and pride orientations toward disability, demonstrating the importance of reframing traditional narratives of sorrow and medicalization. 

The critical, self-reflective essays in Barriers and Belonging provide unique insights into the range and complexity of disability experience.

Michelle Jarman is Associate Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Wyoming. Leila Monaghan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at Southern Illinois University.  Alison Quaggin Harkin is Temporary Assistant Lecturer of Disability Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and English at the University of Wyoming.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Philadelphia PA
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4399-1388-9 / 1439913889
ISBN-13 978-1-4399-1388-8 / 9781439913888
Zustand Neuware
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