Moving beyond boundaries in disability studies: rights, spaces and innovations

Moore, Michele (2012) Moving beyond boundaries in disability studies: rights, spaces and innovations. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415627252

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Abstract

What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people’s lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion? This book draws together the writing of academics and activists to depict the experience and perspective of disabled people in relation to a range of contemporary social changes, with a focus firmly on ways in which disabled people and their allies can act to counter disabling policies and practices.

Throughout the book there is an emphasis on disabled people’s own voices and activism as the critical driver of theoretical critique and practical change. Chapters address a wide range of cultural, institutional and personal arenas to explore and contest the boundaries that disabled people seek to move beyond, from cross-border labour movements in Korea to experience of day services in England, from continuing and long-lasting realities of wars in Lebanon, Cambodia and Somalia to the beauty of harmony in Navajo traditions for understanding disability, from collective activism to individual participation in the Olympics.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	L400 Social Policy L900 Others in Social studies
Department:	Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
Related URLs:	Library Catalogue Publisher
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2012 14:39
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2017 11:56
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8233

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