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Disability and Social Movements

Learning from Australian Experiences

By: Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins

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Disability and Social Movements

Learning from Australian Experiences

By: Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophically, historically, and theoretically positioned, Carling-Jenkins is able to then examine disability relationally through an evaluation of the contributions of groups engaged in similar human rights struggles. The book locates disability rights as a new social movement and provides an explanation for why disability has been divided rather than united in Australia. Finally, it investigates whether the recent campaign to implement a national disability insurance scheme represents a re-emergence of the movement. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of both disability studies and social movements.

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258

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472446348

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9781472446343

Disability and Discourse Analysis

By: Dr Jan Grue

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Disability and Discourse Analysis

By: Dr Jan Grue

Although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened. This ground-breaking volume contributes to this link by thoroughly applying the analytical vocabulary of discourse analysis to issues that are central to the field of disability studies. It strengthens disability studies by supplying case studies of representations and constructions of disability and disabled people in discourse, theorizes the role played by language in the social construction of disability, and makes disability a more salient topic for discourse analysts.

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153

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472432940

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Communication, Sport and Disability

The Case of Power Soccer

By: Dr Michael S Jeffress

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Communication, Sport and Disability

The Case of Power Soccer

By: Dr Michael S Jeffress

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. Using ethnographic research conducted while attending practices, games, and social functions of power soccer - the first competitive team sport specifically designed for electric wheelchair users, now played in more than 30 countries - Jeffress builds a strong case that electric wheelchair users deserve more opportunity to play sports.

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209

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472448200

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9781472448200

Youth and Disability

A Challenge to Mr Reasonable

By: Dr Jenny Slater

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Youth and Disability

A Challenge to Mr Reasonable

By: Dr Jenny Slater

In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of ‘the reasonable’ to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural frameworks, rarely have sociological studies of ‘youth’ and ‘disability’ been brought together. By taking an interdisciplinary, critical disability studies approach to explore the socio-cultural concepts of ‘youth’ and ‘disability’ alongside one-another, Slater convincingly demonstrates that ‘youth’ and ‘disability’ have been conceptualised within medical/psychological frameworks for too long.

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147242851X

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9781472428516

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Disability and Social Movements

Disability and Social Movements

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Disability and Discourse Analysis

Communication, Sport and Disability

Communication, Sport and Disability

Youth and Disability

Youth and Disability

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