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  • Disability Studies

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    by Dan Goodley ...
    What if disability isn′t a problem but a resource? This updated edition of a classic text in the field of disability studies interrogates the commonly held view that disability is something that needs to be ′cured′ or ′eradicated′. It shows us how disability can challenge our thinking and help us to imagine a more socially just society, offering an engaging introduction to a diverse and globally ... Read more

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  • Letters with Smokie

    Blindness and More-than-Human Relations

    Leave it to a dog to put the “human” back in “humanities”In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide dog, Smokie, had taken offense to the suggestion that disability was purely a human question, Michalko shared a few thoughts on behalf of his dog. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Living Life to the Fullest

    Disability, Youth and Voice

    Series series Emerald Points
    This co-authored text critically explores the key findings of the Living Life to the Fullest project – a project that has explored the lives, thoughts, hopes and aspirations of disabled young people living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Written by disabled young people and academic researchers, the book articulates ethical co-production in social research.The prolific ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Disability and Other Human Questions

    by Dan Goodley ...
    Series series SocietyNow
    DAN GOODLEY draws on two decades of research and writing and weaves personal stories, scholarly literature, social media and other cultural narratives together with concepts from the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. His argument is simple: disability invites great insight into the wider project of understanding the human condition. Goodley argues that the study of disability is of ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Disability and Psychology

    Critical Introductions and Reflections

    Disability is not just the physical, sensory or intellectual impairments a person has, but the exclusion from society they face as a result. Organisations for disabled people are a growing voice in challenging this exclusion and anti-discrimination legislation is helping to change the structures in society that have contributed to it.This book examines the discipline of psychology in this regard. ... Read more

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  • Children and Young People's Worlds

    This textbook for advanced and post graduate students sets out the contexts of children's and young people’s lives and encourages students to explore their complexities and contexts.This new edition has been substantially updated to discuss and analyse new topics and issues that have emerged over the last ten years, including:• developments in the way that children and young people’s lives have ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Dis/ability Studies

    Theorising disablism and ableism

    by Dan Goodley ...
    In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project – dis/ability studies – an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability.Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary areas, including sociology, psychology, education, policy and cultural studies, this much needed text takes the most ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Disability Studies

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    by Dan Goodley ...
    Passionate, engaging and challenging, this second edition of the ground-breaking Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction is a contemporary introduction to this diverse and complex field.Taking an interdisciplinary and critical approach, the book*:*examines a diverse range of theories and perspectives and engages with current debates in the fieldexplores key areas of analysis, with ... Read more

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  • Re-Thinking Autism

    Diagnosis, Identity and Equality

    Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century.Arguing that autism can only be understood through examining 'it' as a socially or culturally produced phenomenon, the authors offer a critique of the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Researching Life Stories

    Method, Theory and Analyses in a Biographical Age

    Researching Life Stories critically and pragmatically reflects upon the use of life stories in social and educational research. Using four life stories as examples, the authors apply four different, practical approaches to demonstrate effective research and analysis.As well as examining in detail the four life stories around which the book is written, areas covered include:* Method and methodology ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Letters with Smokie

    Blindness and More-than-Human Relations

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide dog, Smokie, had taken offense to the suggestion that disability was purely a human question, Michalko shared a few thoughts on behalf of his dog. When Goodley wrote back—to Smokie—so began an epistolic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies

    Edited by Tsitsi Chataika, Dan Goodley ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies and that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns. By drawing these two subjects together, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD