Summary: "Disabilities, Culture and Identity is a succinct and accessible presentation of current research on disability, culture and identity. It is an ideal text for students and lecturers alike studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies and Social Policy. Disabilities, Culture and Identity provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to an area of growing importance. The authors provide up-to-date and extensive coverage of the development of thinking on cultures of disability, including those relating to people with learning difficulties and people with mental health problems. Also covered in detail are critical areas in disability studies including: Development of the social model of disability, Disability and the politics of social justice, Disability and theories of culture and media, Disability, ethnicity and generation, The policy options for empowering disabled people, and how the disabled are empowering themselves, The disability arts movement, Media treatment of disability."--Publisher description.

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Riddell, Sheila, Watson, Nick

Globe Fearon Educational Publishing

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Group

Pearson/Prentice Hall

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Prentice Hall (UK)

Longman Publishing

Cengage Gale

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), London, 2014

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

United States, United States of America

Harlow ; New York, 2003

Harlow, England, 2003

HARLOW, Unknown

1, 2003-06-05

July 31, 2003

1, PT, 2003

sm64829795

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER ONE Disability, Culture and Identity: Introduction
Introduction
The social model of disability and culture
What is culture?
Culture and disability
Disability and identity
Structure and content of the book
Conclusion
References
CHAPTER TWO A culture of participation?
‘Dependent children’
‘Troubled adolescents’
‘Needy disabled people’
Defined as ‘the other’?
Is it possible to have a culture of participation?
References
CHAPTER THREE Daily denials: The routinisation of oppression and resistance
Introduction
The importance of interaction: reclaiming social interaction
Prejudice
The daily experience of oppression
Oppression as patronage and the denial of agency
Oppression as the product of charity
Becoming the centre of attention
Engaging with non-disabled people
Oppression as ignorance
Conclusion
References
CHAPTER FOUR ‘It’s like your hair going grey’, or is it?: impairment, disability and the habitus of old age
Introduction
Thinking about disability and old age
Talking about older disabled people
Preoccupations with the body and physical function
Biography and identity
Older disabled people, same or different?
References
CHAPTER FIVE Challenging a ‘spoiled identity’: mental health service users, recognition and redistribution
Introduction
Challenging a ‘spoiled identity’
Patient
Customer
User
Survivor
Client
Member
Person with the diagnosis
Madperson
No suitable term
Towards a mental health identity?
A positive identity?
A permanent identity?
Social construct or immanent condition?
A shared identity?
Rethinking identity?
Conclusion: the limits of difference
References
CHAPTER SIX Deafness/Disability – problematising notions of identity, culture and structure
Introduction
Deaf studies: the structural penetration of culture
Disability studies: the cultural penetration of structure
Conclusion
References
CHAPTER SEVEN Against a politics of victimisation: disability culture and self-advocates with learning difficulties
Introduction
Disabling and disability cultures
Researching self-advocacy
Embracing cultures and resilient identities
Resilience in the family
Identity formation and institutionalisation
Disabled identities and self-advocacy culture
Self-advocacy and the disability movement
Conclusion
References
CHAPTER EIGHT Now I Know Why Disability Art is Drowning in the River Lethe (with thanks to Pierre Bourdieu)
Introduction
The development of Disability Art in the UK
Commercial sponsorship of art and Disability Art
State sponsorship of Disability Art
The domestication of Disability Art and Disability Artists
Conclusion
References
CHAPTER NINE Mainstreaming disability on Radio 4
Introduction
Media, power and disability
Inclusion, exclusion and mainstreaming
Rights, citizenship and consumerism
Production issues
Content
Conclusion
References
CHAPTER TEN Disability and ethnicity: how young Asian disabled people make sense of their lives
Introduction
Disability and ethnicity
The study
Negotiating identities
The meaning of disability for parents
Young people and the family
The social meaning of disability
Ethnic, cultural and religious identification
Religious and cultural identification
Discussion
References
CHAPTER ELEVEN Can multiculturalism encompass disability?
Introduction
Critical multiculturalism and the problem of the able body
Australia – a diverse settler society in crisis
Culture – the dimension of social meanings
Disability as a cultural movement
Crossover – disability, multiculturalism and reconciliation
Population and the popular: disability engages with multiculturalism
Conclusion
References
Index

Disabilities, Culture and Identity is a succinct and accessible presentation of current research on disability, culture and identity. It is an ideal text for students and lecturers alike studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies and Social Policy. Disabilities, Culture and Identity provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to an area of growing importance. The authors provide up-to-date and extensive coverage of the development of thinking on cultures of disability, including those relating to people with learning difficulties, people with mental health problems and people with learning difficulties Also covered in detail are critical areas in disability studies including: Development of the social model of disability Disability and the politics of social justice Disability and theories of culture and media Disability, ethnicity and generation The policy options for empowering disabled people, and how the disabled are empowering themselves The disability arts movement Media treatment of disability

A presentation of research on disability in 2003, this text provides extensive coverage on the development of thinking cultures of disability; development of the social model of disability; disability and the politcs of social justice; and media treatement of disability, amongst other issues.

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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