Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781138487000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 212 str.

Opis

Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise, yet it is often dismissed as a niche market. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Challenging Institutional Avoidance: Systems and Education  1. Disability, Diversity and Diversion: Normalization and Avoidance in Higher Education  2. Disabling Policies and Exclusionary Infrastructures: A Critique of the AAUP Report  3. 'Crippled Inside?': Metaphors of Organisational Learning Difficulty  4. Avoiding New Literacies: Ideology, Dyslexia, and Perceived Deficits  5. School Textbooks and the Avoidance of Disability: Emptied of Representation  Part 2: Challening Disciplinary Avoidance: The Case for Curricular Reform  6. Lessons in Critical Avoidance: Disability Studies and 'Special Educational Needs'  7. Words for Dignity: From Budapest to Berkeley and Back  8. Validating Critical Avoidance: Professional Social Work, Mental Health Service Users/Survivors, and the Academy  9. Servicescapes, People, Brands, and Marketing Management: Looking to the Future of Consumer Disability Research Through Disability Studies  10. Literary Disability Studies in Creative Writing: A Practical Approach to Theory  11. Fabulous Invalids Together: Why Disability in Mainstream Theater Matters  12. Ahimsa and the Ethics of Caring: Gandhi's Spiritual Experiments with Truth via an Idea of a Vulnerable Human Body  Part 3: Challenging Critical Avoidance: Culture, Place, and Modernity  13. Disability Studies and Modern Responses to Stefan Zweig's Beware of Pity: Critics' Avoidance  14. Avoiding Disability in Scottish Literary Studies? Scottish Studies, Ablenationalism, and Beyond  15. How I Can Go On: Embracing Modernity's Displeasure with Beckett's Murphy  16. Signifying Otherness in Modernity: The Subject of Disability in The Sun Also Rises and The Sound and the Fury  17. Epilogue