Geographies Of Disability

Author : Brendan Gleeson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134681976
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Disability written by Brendan Gleeson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disability and a new disability model * case studies to explore how the transition to capitalism disadvantaged disabled people * an exploration of the Western city and the policies of community care and accessibility regulation. Brendan Gleeson presents an important contribution to the major policy debates on disability in Western societies and offers new considerations for the broader debates on embodiment and space within Geography.

Author : Brendan Gleeson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134681984
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Disability written by Brendan Gleeson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disability and a new disability model * case studies to explore how the transition to capitalism disadvantaged disabled people * an exploration of the Western city and the policies of community care and accessibility regulation. Brendan Gleeson presents an important contribution to the major policy debates on disability in Western societies and offers new considerations for the broader debates on embodiment and space within Geography.

Author : Brendan Gleeson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415179084
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Disability written by Brendan Gleeson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between space and disability explaining how space, place and mobility shape the experiences of disabled people.

Author : Ruth Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134682115
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mind and Body Spaces written by Ruth Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind and Body Spaces highlights new international research from Britain, USA, Canada and Australia, on bodily impairment, mental health and disabled peoples social worlds. The contributors discuss a variety of current issues including: * historical conceptions of the body and behaviour * contemporary political activism * matters of identity and employment * accessible housing * parenthood and child carers * psychiatric medication use * masculinity and sexuality * autobiography * social exclusion and inclusion. The contributors are: Hester Parr, Ruth Butler, Rob Imrie, Michael L. Dorn, Deborah Carter Park, John Radford, Brendan Gleeson, Isabel Dyck, Edward Hall, Pamela Moss, Gill Valentine, Christine Milligan, Flora Gathorne-Hardy, Jane Stables, Fiona Smith and Vera Chouinard.

Author : Dr Robert Wilton
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488551
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards Enabling Geographies written by Dr Robert Wilton and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space. 'Towards Enabling Geographies' brings together leading scholars to showcase the 'second wave' of geographical studies concerned with disability and embodied differences. This area has broadened and challenged conventional boundaries of 'disability', expanding the kinds of embodied differences considered, while continuing to grapple with important challenges such as policy relevance and the use of more inclusionary research approaches. This book demonstrates the value of a spatial conceptualization of disability and disablement to a broader social science audience, whilst examining how this conceptualization can be further developed and refined.

Author : Edward Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317009010
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards Enabling Geographies written by Edward Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space. 'Towards Enabling Geographies' brings together leading scholars to showcase the 'second wave' of geographical studies concerned with disability and embodied differences. This area has broadened and challenged conventional boundaries of 'disability', expanding the kinds of embodied differences considered, while continuing to grapple with important challenges such as policy relevance and the use of more inclusionary research approaches. This book demonstrates the value of a spatial conceptualization of disability and disablement to a broader social science audience, whilst examining how this conceptualization can be further developed and refined.

Author : Karen Soldatic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135008760
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability, Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion written by Karen Soldatic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame operating within the realm of disability. Providing a critical and comprehensive examination of disability and spatial processes of exclusion and inclusion for disabled people, the book uniquely brings together insights from disability studies, spatial geographies and social policy with the purpose of exploring how spatial factors shape, limit or enhance policy towards, and the experiences of, disabled people. Divided into two parts, the first section explores the key concepts to have emerged within the field of disability geographies, and their relationship to new policy regimes. New and emerging concepts within the field are critically explored for their significance in conceptually framing disability. The second section provides an in-depth examination of disabled people’s experience of changing landscapes within the onset of emerging disability policy regimes. It deals with how the various actors and stakeholders, such as governments, social care agencies, families and disabled people traverse these landscapes under the new conditions laid out by changing policy regimes. Crucially, the chapters examine the lived meaning of changing spatial relations for disabled people. Grounded in recent empirical research, and with a global focus, each of the chapters reveal how social policy domains are challenged or undermined by the spatial realities faced by disabled people, and expands existing understandings of disability. In turn, the book supports readers to grasp future policy directions and processes that enable disabled people's choices, rights and participation. This important work will be invaluable reading for students and researchers involved in disability, geography and social policy.

Author : Dr Fayyaz Vellani
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472404378
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Disability Discrimination Law through Geography written by Dr Fayyaz Vellani and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in comparison to its counterparts in the USA and Australia, this book focuses on how it is being interpreted and acted upon in the context of higher education, a key area of national attention in the UK. It also evaluates this law in the context of the larger project of civil rights legislation and demonstrates that geography can be used to explain law and legal arguments by highlighting their subjectivity and by emphasizing the importance of place, specificity and context. While providing in-depth analysis of the effectiveness and scope of this significant legislation this book demonstrates the importance of geography in the application of law. It provides insights into the broader workings of UK anti-discrimination law, which are particularly relevant given the scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the concerns about the effectiveness of legal tools in fighting discrimination. Finally, this book critiques liberal notions of legal subjectivity and medical definitions of disability which is topical given the current attention given to debates about identity politics.

Author : Edward Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315550565
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards Enabling Geographies written by Edward Hall and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the leading scholars in geography, this book puts forward the 'second wave' of geographical studies concerned with disability and embodied differences. It shows how this area of study has broadened and challenged conventional boundaries of 'disability'.

Author : David Sibley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134813376
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Exclusion written by David Sibley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the construction of socio-spatial boundaries seen in gedner, colour, sexuality, age, lifestyle and disability, arguing that powerful groups tend to dominate space to create fear of minorities in the home, community and state.