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Description
Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.
Table of Contents
PART I: CONCEPTS AND ORIGINS
The Importance of Definitions in the Disablility Debate
The Origins of Disability Studies
The Rise of Disabling Capitalism
PART II: REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCOURSES
Ideology and the Disabled Individual
Constructing Disabled Identities
Creating the Disability Problem
PART III: AGENDAS AND ACTIONS
Dealing with Disabling Society
Resisting the Disabling Society
Doing Disability Studies.
Product details
Published | 08 May 2012 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 2nd |
Extent | 248 |
ISBN | 9780333945674 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Dimensions | 0 x 0 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |