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1 online resource (394 pages) : illustratons |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Occupying disability : an introduction / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard -- Krips, cops and occupy : reflections from Oscar Grant Plaza / Sunaura Taylor, Marg Hall, Jessica Lehman, Rachel Liebert, Akemi Nishida, and Jean Steward -- Minamata : disability and the sea of sorrow / Mami Aoyama -- Movements at war? disability and anti-occupation activism in Israel / Liat Ben-Moshe -- Landings : decolonizing disability,indigeneity and poetic methods / Petra Kuppers -- Occupying autism : rhetoric, involuntarity, and the meaning of autistic lives / Melanie Yergeau -- Scenes and encounters, bodies and abilities : devising performance with Cyrff Ystwyth / Margaret Ames -- Artistic therapeutic treatment, colonialism & spectacle : a Brazilian tale / Marta Peres, Francine Albeiro de Camargo, Jose Octavio Pompeu e Silva, and Pamela Block -- A situational analysis of persons with disabilities in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago : education and employment policy imperatives / Annicia Gayle-Geddes -- Neoliberal academia and a critique of disability studies / Akemi Nishida -- Soul searching occupations : critical reflections on occupational therapy's commitment to social justice, disability rights, and participation / Mansha Mirza, Susan Magasi, and Joy Hammel -- Refusing to go away : the Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group / Denise M. Nepveux -- Why bother talking? on having cerebral palsy and speech impairment : preserving and promoting oral communication through occupational community and communities practice / Rick Stoddart and David Turnbull -- Occupying seats, occupying space, occupying time : deaf young adults in vocational training centers in Bangalore, India / Michele Friedner -- My world, my experience with occupy Wall Street and how we can go further / Nick Dupree -- Beyond policy - a real life journey of engagement and involvement / Stephanie de la Haye -- Self advocacy and self determination for youth with disability and their parents during school transition planning / Eva L. Rodriguez -- Should robots be personal assistants? / Katherine D. Seelman -- Crab and yoghurt / Tobias Hecht -- Occupying disability studies in Brazil / Anahi Guedes de Mello, Pamela Block, and Adriano Henrique Nuerberg -- Black & blue : policing disability & poverty beyond occupy / Leroy F. Moore Jr., Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, and Emmitt H. Thrower -- Blindness and occupation : personal observations and reflections / Rikki Chaplin -- Surviving Stevenage / Roy Birch, Ann Copeland, Geoff Clarke, Neil Hopkins, Rosie Berry, Richard J.N. Copeland, STL, Bruce James, CYNTH, Paul Evans, Darren Messenger, Lucia Birch, and Andrew H. Smith -- If disability is a dance, who is the choreographer? a conversation about life occupations, art, movement / Neil Marcus, Devva Kasnitz, and Pamela Block -- Critical approaches to community, justice and decolonizing disability : editors' summary / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard -- Science (fiction), hope and love : conclusions / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard. |
| Summary |
"This book explores the concept of 'occupation' in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisible diagnoses/impairments, socio-cultural perceptions and environmental barriers and offers innovative ideas on how to apply theoretical training to real world contexts. Inspired by disability justice and 'Disability Occupy Wall Street / Decolonize Disability' movements in the US and related movements abroad, this book builds on politically engaged critical approaches to disability that intersect occupational therapy, disability studies and anthropology. 'Occupying Disability' will provide a discursive space where the concepts of disability, culture and occupation meet critical theory, activism and the creative arts. The concept of 'occupation' is intentionally a moving target in this book. Some chapters discuss occupying spaces as a form of protest or alternatively, protesting against territorial occupations. Others present occupations as framed or problematized within the fields of occupational therapy and occupational science and anthropology as engagement in meaningful activities. The contributing authors come from a variety of professional, academic and activist backgrounds to include perspectives from theory, practice and experiences of disability. Emergent themes include: all the permutations of the concept of 'occupy,' disability justice/decolonization, marginalization and minoritization, technology, struggle, creativity and change. This book will engage clinicians, social scientists, activists and artists in dialogues about disability as a theoretical construct and lived experience"--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions.
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Disabilities -- Social aspects.
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Disabilities -- Philosophy.
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Disability studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Block, Pamela, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Occupying disability. Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2016] 9789401799836 (DLC) 2015943316 (OCoLC)928632565 |
| ISBN |
9789401799843 (electronic book) |
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9401799849 (electronic book) |
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9789401799836 (cloth) |
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9401799830 (cloth) |
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