Routledge handbook of disability studies /

"This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective an...

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Group Author: Watson, Nick, 1960; Vehmas, Simo
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Routledge international handbooks
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Summary: "This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting-edge areas as well as core areas of contention."--
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting edge areas as well as core areas of contention. Divided in five sections, this comprehensive handbook covers:different models and approaches to disability how key impairment groups have engaged with disabili
Item Description: Revised edition of Routledge handbook of disability studies, 2012.
Carrier Form: xviii, 543 pages : illustrations, forms ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781138365308 (hardcover) :
1138365300 (hardcover)
9780429430817 (electronic book)
0429430817 (electronic book)
Index Number: HV1568
CLC: C913.69-62
Call Number: C913.69-62/R869/2nd ed.
Contents: Front Cover -- Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Part 1: Theorizing disability -- 1. The changing terrain of disability studies: Alan Roulstone, Carol Thomas and Nick Watson -- 2. Understanding the social model of disability: past, present and future: Colin Barnes -- 3. Critical disability studies: rethinking the conventions for the age of postmodernity: Margrit Shildrick.