Description: Disability, Avoidance and the Academy : Challenging Resistance, Hardcover by Bolt, David (EDT); Penketh, Claire (EDT), ISBN 1138858668, ISBN-13 9781138858664, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise. Within the academic world, it has relevance for all disciplines yet is often dismissed as a niche market or someone else’s domain. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies and disability theory is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies. This innovativ brings together work in the humanities and the social sciences, and draws on the riches of cultural diversity to challenge institutional and disciplinary avoidance. Divided into three parts, the first looks at how educational institutions and systems implicitly uphold double standards, which can result in negative experiences for staff and students who are disabled. The second part explores how disability studies informs and improves a number of academic disciplines, from social work to performance arts. The final part shows how more diverse cultural engagement offers a way forward for the academy, demonstrating ways in which we can make more explicit the interdisciplinary significance of disability studies – and, by extension, disability theory, activism, experience, and culture. Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance will interest students and scholars of disability studies, education studies and cultural studies.
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Book Title: Disability, Avoidance and the Academy : Challenging Resistance
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Disability, Teaching
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 454 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Claire Penketh, David Bolt
Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Hardcover
