Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies. INDICE: Introduction .PART I: CONCEPTS AND ORIGINS .The Importance of Definitions in the Disablility Debate .The Origins of Disability Studies .The Riseof Disabling Capitalism .PART II: REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCOURSES .Ideology and the Disabled Individual .Constructing Disabled Identities .Creating the Disability Problem .PART III: AGENDAS AND ACTIONS .Dealing with Disabling Society .Resisting the Disabling Society .Doing Disability Studies .
- ISBN: 978-0-333-94567-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 13/04/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido