Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday

ISBN-13: 9781138214217 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 210 str.

Gareth M. Thomas; Dikaios Sakellariou

Opis

What does the everyday reality of being disabled mean for those involved? Bringing together a range of qualitative methodologies, interviews and ethnographies in a global context, this collection highlights the mundane interactions and everyday occurrences in the lives of people with disabilities across the life-course. It will provide an excellent resource for disability studies, health and wellbeing, illness, and healthcare.

Spis treści

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I. Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday -Chapter 1. Introduction: disability, normalcy, and the everyday -Gareth M. Thomas and Dikaios Sakellariou; Chapter 2. Keeping up appearances: family carers and people with dementia negotiating normalcy through dress practice -Christina Buse and Julia Twigg; Part II: Youth, Normalcy, and Disability Futures Chapter 3. The everyday worlds of disabled children -Tillie Curran, Kirsty Liddiard, and Katherine Runswick-Cole; Chapter 4. Pursuit of ordinariness: dynamics of conforming and resisting in disabled young people’s embodied practices -Janice McLaughlin and Edmund Coleman-Fountain; Chapter 5. Worlding the ‘new normal’ for young adults with disabilities -Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp; Part III: Doing Care, Creating Living Chapter 6. Who’s disabled, Babe? Carving out a good life among the normal and everyday -Helen Errington, Karen Soldatic, and Louisa Smith; Chapter 7. ‘I employ a crew that can do life with me’: a young woman’s creative self-management of support workers -Nikki Wedgewood, Louisa Smith, and Russell Shuttleworth; Chapter 8. (Re)negotiating normal every day: phenomenological uncertainty in Parkinson’s disease -Narelle Warren and Darshini Ayton; Part IV: Global Disability Politics Chapter 9. Ethical (dis)enchantment, afflictive kinship, and Ebola exceptionalism -Maria Berghs; Chapter 10. Disability and healthcare in everyday life - Hannah Kuper, Goli Hashemi, and Mary Wickenden; Index