Thomas / Sakellariou Disability, Normalcy and the Everyday

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-44643-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

What does the everyday reality of being disabled mean for those involved? Living with disability often conjures up discourses of endurance and suffering but what is sometimes overlooked is how people live with disability rather than despite it. Bringing together a range of qualitative methodologies, interviews and ethnographies in a global context, this collection highlights the mundane interactions and everyday occurrences in the lives of people with disabilities across the life-course. It considers aspects which are often taken-for-granted such as how disabled people dress, communicate, engage with family life, pursue employment and future aspirations, interact with healthcare organisations, and negotiate ideas of ‘normality’. By attending to these concerns, this interdisciplinary book goes beyond familiar accounts of disability rights and theory, thus revealing fresh insights for the sociology of disability.

The book will provide an excellent resource for disability studies, health and wellbeing, illness, and healthcare. It will also be of interest to academics and students in the fields of medical sociology and anthropology as well as healthcare professionals and practitioners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomas, Gareth M.

Sakellariou, Dikaios

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I; Chapter 1. Introduction Dikaios Sakellariou and Gareth Thomas; Part II: Experiments on/of everyday life; Chapter 2. Dressing disrupted: family carers and people with dementia negotiating continuity, rupture and ‘normality’ through dress practice Christina Buse (University of York) and Julia Twigg (University of Kent); Chapter 3. ‘I am Helen’ or reimaging normative notions of ‘the good life’ Karen Soldatic (University of New South Wales, Australia); Chapter 4. The pursuit of ordinariness Janice McLaughlin (Newcastle University) and Edmund Coleman-Fountain (University of York); Part III: Enacting diverging perspectives on the desired good; Chapter 5. Transitioning to nowhere? Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (New York University); Chapter 6. The everyday worlds of disabled children Katherine Runswick-Cole (Manchester Metropolitan University), Tillie Curran (University of the West of England), and Kirsty Libbiard (University of Sheffield); Chapter 7. Disability as ethical (dis)enchantment, kinship and Ebola exceptionalism Maria Berghs (University of York); Part IV: Doing care and creating living; Chapter 8. Disability and health care in everyday life Hannah Kuper (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine); Chapter 9. Negotiating childhood, care and medical ‘interruptions’ in the lives of families with autistic children Sara Ryan (University of Oxford); Chapter 10. Disability, communication, and speech impairment in everyday worlds Devva Kasnitz (City University of New York) and Pamela Block (Stony Brook University, New York); Part IV: Conclusion Gareth Thomas and Dikaios Sakellariou; Index