Learning Disability and Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781032018249 / Twarda / 2024 / 320 str.

UK) Cockain Alex (Canterbury Christ Church University

Opis

This book brings into conversation ideas from social theory with ‘thick’ descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism.

Spis treści

Part 1: Dis/orientating directions

1. Encountering, and interpreting, everyday life in—or alongside—significant learning disability, or the world inside-out, and back-to-front

2. Dwelling, outside(r)ness, and (various) other methodological positions

Part 2: Conversations about—and with (or alongside and for)—Paul and other autistic people and things

3. Authorising languages

4. Everyday discourse and everyday power

5. Tu(r)ning (in)to the things themselves

Part 3: Out (of) and about place, let’s go outside

6. Becoming quixotic? A discussion on the discursive construction of disability and how this is maintained through social relations

7. Walking small with ‘Paul’: On (not) passing in purportedly public places

8. Disturbing geographies and in/stability in and around a supermarket

Part 4: Inside, outside, and in/between

9. Accounting for an encounter with a social worker

10. Home, away, and the spaces, places, and persons in/between

11. A room of Paul’s own, and the apparent comfort of things

Part 5: To the things themselves

12. Forms of autistic presence and practice

O autorze

Alex Cockain is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work and The Graduate College at Canterbury Christ Church University. Since his first book entitled Young Chinese in Urban China (2012), much of his work has focused upon issues of social inclusion and social exclusion and especially how ability and disability are made through social encounters, discourse, media representations, and everyday practices. His recent work has also explored the tactics disabled people and their families deploy to cope, and make do, with exclusionary places and practices and the ways they attempt to manage disabling social encounters.