Disability Studies: A Bibliography

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Over the years, disability rights advocates have scored significant victories. The most notable, the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, and most recently, the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008. Additionally, alongside the political movement, we have seen the emergence of disability studies, which now sets the pace for developing new representations of disability.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 2015

Print Version: In this article, I review seven books published in disability studies in 2013 and 2014. Two of the books deal exclusively with the North American context. The remaining five books focus primarily on areas outside North America, including Europe, Asia and Latin America. Two of the books are edited anthologies of new and original work. Four books are single-authored monographs and one book is co-authored. A search of new work published in 2013 and 2014 revealed more than twenty books.

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The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the June 23-25, 1994, annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies held in Rockville, MD.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1252/thumbnail.jp

Conor, Valle, and Hale are the Forum Guest Editors of this issue of Review of Disability Studies

Canadian journal of sociology = Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 2000

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The history of Disability takes us as back as to the early civilizations, where Ancient Greeks had antipathy towards those with bodies that were ‘atypical’ according to their community. Towards the middle ages, there was the growth of faith based religious institutions with a charity approach to individuals who were ‘atypical’. Then in the era of Enlightment, disability was understood through scientific knowledge. Disability and the Disability studies in 21st century gained the attention of the academicians, activists and other social scientists. Disability is no more confined to the domains of rehabilitation professionals, therapeutic institutions functioning under the bureaucratic regime; rather it has shifted to the change among the differently abled people’s identity, their increased participation and the institutional sensitivity towards the barrier of exclusion of the disabled. But ‘Disability’ as a concept and the life of the impaired is always subject to vary from place to place depending upon the socio-cultural aspects. The present paper reviews some eminent theorist’s view of disability and presents how ‘disability’ was constructed, understood and interpreted throughout the journey from traditional sociological study to the emergence of disability studies as a distinct field of study. It also analyses disability in Indian context. Thus, the paper brings out some necessary dimensions that would help the disability researcher for the revaluation of the existing curriculum.

The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 2015

In this article, I review seven books published in disability studies in 2013 and 2014. Two of the books deal exclusively with the North American context. The remaining five books focus primarily on areas outside North America, including Europe, Asia and Latin America. Two of the books are edited anthologies of new and original work. Four books are single-authored monographs and one book is co-authored. A search of new work published in 2013 and 2014 revealed more than twenty books. As a way of narrowing the focus and organizing the essay, I begin with a critique of key issues raised in Lennard J. Davis’ The End of Normal: Identity in a Biocultural Era (UMichiganP [2013]) and go on to show how authors living and/or working in other parts of the world are engaging with, building on and diverging from what could be called a white, Western global North disability studies. In the end, I argue that decentring North American and UK disability studies reveals significant field-changing insights that will no doubt have profound and lasting effects on the study of disability and disabled people in the humanities and social sciences.

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability, 2023

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the wide range and depth of sociological theory and research on disability-brought together for the rst time in one volume. Each section of the Handbook incorporates a uniquely sociological perspective, presented by experts on intersecting social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of disability and complementing disability scholarship. The 37 chapters in this Handbook, organized into three major sections, provide an assessment of where we have been, where we are now, and where we must go with research on and in the sociology of disability. The rst section, De ning, Measuring, and Understanding Disability, reviews frameworks foundational to the study of disability, pushes for the inclusion of broader global perspectives, and addresses important dimensions of representation. The second section, Experiencing Disability across the Life Course, presents a combination of perspectives that tie together individual biography, societal, and historical contexts, while emphasizing continuity and change in the dynamic processes linking individuals, institutions, and structures over time. In the third section, Disability, Policy, and the Law, chapters investigate the reproduction of inequality through law, policy, and related institutions and systems, while highlighting how social and political participation empowers people with disabilities and helps to mitigate inequalities and social marginalization. The chapters included in this volume o er a multifaceted resource for students and experienced scientists alike on historical developments, main standards, key issues, and current challenges in the sociological study of disability at the global, national, and regional levels.