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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “harriet cooper”
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  • Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child

    Unsettling Distinctions

    by Harriet Cooper ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    This book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disability as a personal experience of internalised oppression on the other. In focalising this debate through an exploration of the politically and emotionally charged figure of the disabled child, Harriet Cooper raises questions both about what it means to ‘speak for’ the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Recalibrating Stigma

    Sociologies of Health and Illness

    by Andrew Guise, Simone Helleren, River Ujhadbor, Fay Dennis, Gillian Love, Jaime Garcia-Iglesias, Kass Gibson, Harriet Cooper, Jen Remnant, Esmée Hanna, Caroline Law, Nicky Hudson, Dharmi Kapadia, Maria Haarmans, Hannah Farrimond, Mike Michael ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Stigma has long been a central concern for social scientists studying health and illness. Yet, in existing work, stigma often escapes definition and clarification, is treated as universal and constant, and becomes a vague catch-all term for a range of conditions and situations.This book initiates a process of recalibrating the ... Read more

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  • Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning

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  • Reading and Writing Disability Differently

    The Textured Life of Embodiment

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  • Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

    Working with Everyday Life Materials

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