Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives

Finding a Voice of Their Own
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-91882-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach and with extensive reporting of the thoughts of the participants in their own words, the book uses narratives to explore whether an advocacy identity helps or hinders dealings with systemic barriers for disabled people in education, employment, and transportation.

The book underscores how both physical and attitudinal barriers by educators, employers and service providers complicate the lives of disabled people. The book places a particular focus on the importance of political economy and the changes to the labour market for understanding the marginalization and oppression of people with disabilities. By melding socio-legal approaches with insights from feminist, critical race, and queer legal theory, Ravi Malhotra and Morgan Rowe ask if we need to reconsider the social model of disablement, and proposes avenues for inclusive legal reform.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malhotra, Ravi

Rowe, Morgan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Disability Rights, Narratives and Identities: An Overview 2. Methodology 3. Educational Barriers 4. Employment Barriers 5. Transportation Barriers 6. Gendered Expectations, the Body and Identity 7. Toward an Inclusive Society

Über Autor(innen)

Ravi Malhotra is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Morgan Rowe, J.D. is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, Canada.