Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism. These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups in society. However, the offline inaccessible environment has, to a certain degree, been replicated online and particularly in social networking sites. Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised.
Similarly, while social media and...
Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism. These sites poten...
Research has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity negotiation, the practice of communication, and the development of interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, individuals without disabilities often lack the knowledge and tools to experience self-efficacy in communicating with their differently-abled peers. So how do these challenges translate to the incorporation of disability studies in a classroom context and the need to foster an inclusive environment for differently-abled students?
Bringing...
Research has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity negotiation, the prac...
This book traces the development of paid work for visually impaired people in the UK from the 18th century to the present day. It gives a voice to visually impaired people to talk about their working lives and documents the history of employment from their experience, an approach which is severely lacking in the current literature about visual impairment and employment. By analysing fifty in-depth face-to-face interviews with visually impaired people talking about their working lives (featuring those who have worked in traditional jobs such as telephony, physiotherapy and piano tuning, to...
This book traces the development of paid work for visually impaired people in the UK from the 18th century to the present day. It gives a voice to ...
There is much to be gained from a synthesis of critical/disability studies with film studies. This groundbreaking book analyses representations of disability in comedy films, arguing that meanings of disability and impairment drawn from cinema need to be grounded in an understanding of cinematic practices and processes. A valuable framework for doing so is by recognizing the importance of genre in the production of cinematic texts and also in shaping the expectations of the audience. An understanding of genre/form and of processes of audience interpellation and viewing position are crucial to...
There is much to be gained from a synthesis of critical/disability studies with film studies. This groundbreaking book analyses representations of dis...
Sports are ubiquitous in American society, and given their prominence in the culture, it is easy to understand how most youth in the United States face pressure to participate in organized sports. But what does this mean for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who live with one or more physical disabilities and, in particular, those in powered wheelchairs? Located at the intersection of sports and disability, this book tells the story of power soccer - the first competitive team sport specifically designed for electric wheelchair users. Beginning in France in the 1970s, today, over sixty...
Sports are ubiquitous in American society, and given their prominence in the culture, it is easy to understand how most youth in the United States fac...
In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment. Some of the mechanisms producing these injustices were inherited from state socialism, while others emerged with postsocialist neoliberalisation.
State socialism promised social security guaranteed by the public, and postsocialist neoliberalisation promised independent living underpinned by the market. This books argues that both promises failed as far as disabled...
In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic margin...
'Inspired by the author's own personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ABI through a social scientific lens, promoting an understanding that is generated through close engagement with the lives and experiences of ABI survivors.
The author follows the every-day experiences of six male survivors and critically investigates their identity (re)construction after their ABI. As well as demonstrating identity (re)construction after ABI, the experiences of the...
'Inspired by the author's own personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction ...
