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Author: Luke A Hoban Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 31
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The United States' response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has been shaped by the country's pre-existing narratives around disability. The master narrative of disability presents disability as a static condition that inherently lowers a person's quality of life. This creates bias in physicians dealing with disabled patients, since under the master narrative's logic disability is a negative trait that must be eradicated or cured. This troubling view has wider ramifications during a global pandemic as well. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped everybody's relationship with time, bringing even nondisabled people closer to the experience of disability. However, the federal government and many state governments adhered as closely as possible to able-bodied conceptions of time. This has hindered the United States' pandemic response by misprioritizing "reopening the economy" even at the expense of people's lives. This creates a cycle, because this mismanaged response has led the country into even greater uncertainty about the pandemic, which moves everybody even closer to disabled conceptions of time. Had the master narrative not been so powerful, perhaps the United States could have responded more effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author: Luke A Hoban Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 31
Book Description
The United States' response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has been shaped by the country's pre-existing narratives around disability. The master narrative of disability presents disability as a static condition that inherently lowers a person's quality of life. This creates bias in physicians dealing with disabled patients, since under the master narrative's logic disability is a negative trait that must be eradicated or cured. This troubling view has wider ramifications during a global pandemic as well. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped everybody's relationship with time, bringing even nondisabled people closer to the experience of disability. However, the federal government and many state governments adhered as closely as possible to able-bodied conceptions of time. This has hindered the United States' pandemic response by misprioritizing "reopening the economy" even at the expense of people's lives. This creates a cycle, because this mismanaged response has led the country into even greater uncertainty about the pandemic, which moves everybody even closer to disabled conceptions of time. Had the master narrative not been so powerful, perhaps the United States could have responded more effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author: Allison C. Carey Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1802621415 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 172
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Disability in the Time of Pandemic is a timely exploration of emerging research into the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for people with disabilities in their varied communities and across their complex identities.
Author: Nicole Brown Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1447354117 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 352
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Embedded in personal experiences, this collection explores ableism in academia. Through theoretical lenses including autobiography, autoethnography, embodiment, body work and emotional labour, contributors explore being ‘othered’ in academia and provide practical examples to develop inclusive universities and a less ableist environment.
Author: Sara Hendren Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 073522000X Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 242
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Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider—or reconsider—the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built. In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it—from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture—Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”—look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
Author: Christopher Watkin Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000811646 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 200
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What does ‘autonomy’ mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant for contemporary challenges? How have the limits and possibilities of autonomy been transformed by recent developments in artificial intelligence and big data, political pressures, intersecting oppressions and the climate emergency? The challenges to autonomy today reach across society with unprecedented complexity, and in this book leading scholars from philosophy, economics, linguistics, literature and politics examine the role of autonomy in key areas of contemporary life, forcefully defending a range of different views about the nature and extent of resistance to autonomy today. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the predicament and prospects of one of modernity’s foundational concepts and one of our most widely cherished values. Chapter 5.6 and 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Author: Kelly Fritsch Publisher: AK Press ISBN: 1849354057 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 45
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A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration of the relationships we build along the way. We Move Together follows a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively negotiate everyday barriers and find joy and connection in disability culture and community. A perfect tool for families, schools, and libraries to facilitate conversations about disability, accessibility, social justice and community building. Includes a kid-friendly glossary (for ages 3–10). This fully accessible ebook includes alt-text for image descriptions, a read aloud function, and a zoom-in function that allows readers to magnify the illustrations and be able to move around the page in zoom-in mode.
Author: Alice Wong Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0593315391 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 409
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS • This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project “Alice Wong provides deep truths in this fun and deceptively easy read about her survival in this hectic and ableist society.” —Selma Blair, bestselling author of Mean Baby In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong. Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong’s Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy.
Author: Anne Dunlap Publisher: The Pilgrim Press ISBN: 0829800433 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 146
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The church is an organizing body. No matter how big or small the membership roll, no matter a rural or urban setting, churches organize people. So what might happen if churches organized (more) effectively for community impact, for policy reform, for justice? Building Up a New World explores possible—and practical—answer to this critical question from culturally diverse perspectives. Written by community organizers, ministers, healers, and resisters, Building Up a New World is the guiding fire that congregations needs to rise up for such a time as this.
Author: Alice Wong Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1984899422 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 338
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“Disability rights activist Alice Wong brings tough conversations to the forefront of society with this anthology. It sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences. It's an eye-opening collection that readers will revisit time and time again.” —Chicago Tribune One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.
Author: Nicole Brown Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 1787355004 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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Rather than embracing difference as a reflection of wider society, academic ecosystems seek to normalise and homogenise ways of working and of being a researcher. As a consequence, ableism in academia is endemic. However, to date no attempt has been made to theorise experiences of ableism in academia. Ableism in Academia provides an interdisciplinary outlook on ableism that is currently missing. Through reporting research data and exploring personal experiences, the contributors theorise and conceptualise what it means to be/work outside the stereotypical norm. The volume brings together a range of perspectives, including feminism, post-structuralism, such as Derridean and Foucauldian theory, crip theory and disability theory, and draw on the width and breadth of a number of related disciplines. Contributors use technicism, leadership, social justice theories and theories of embodiment to raise awareness and increase understanding of the marginalised; that is those academics who are not perfect. These theories are placed in the context of neoliberal academia, which is distant from the privileged and romanticised versions that exist in the public and internalised imaginations of academics, and used to interrogate aspects of identity, aspects of how disability is performed, and to argue that ableism is not just a disability issue. This timely collection of chapters will be of interest to researchers in Disability Studies, Higher Education Studies and Sociology, and to those researching the relationship between theory and personal experience across the Social Sciences.
Author: Luke A Hoban
Author: Luke A Hoban
Author: Allison C. Carey
Author: Nicole Brown
Author: Sara Hendren
Author: Christopher Watkin
Author: Kelly Fritsch
Author: Alice Wong
Author: Anne Dunlap
Author: Alice Wong
Author: Nicole Brown