Disability Studies in India (eBook, ePUB)

Global Discourses, Local Realities
Redaktion: Addlakha, Renu

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an unprecedented attempt to initiate an academic dialogue on disability studies in India by bringing together contemporary research, with particular emphasis on the intersections of disability with gender, class, caste, ethnicity, and urban-rural location in the diverse areas of law, policy, medicine, family and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000084412
• Artikelnr.: 60583706

Autorenporträt

Renu Addlakha is Associate Professor at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Plates. List of Abbreviations.
Glossary. Acknowledgements. Introduction Renu Addlakha. Part I. Disability
Movement, Disability Rights and Disability Studies 1. Historicising
Disability in India: Questions of Subject and Method Shilpaa Anand 2.
Disability Rights and the Emergence of Disability Studies Jagdish Chander
3. Tracking Disability through the United Nations N. Sundaresan. Part II.
Family, Care and Work 4. Prenatal Diagnosis: Where do We Draw the Line?
Anita Ghai and Rachana Johri 5. Burden of Caring: Families of the Disabled
in Urban India Upali Chakravarti 6. Exploring Constructs of Intellectual
Disability and Personhood in Haryana and Delhi Nilika Mehrotra and
Shubhangi Vaidya 7. Corporeality, Mobility and Class: An Ethnography of
Work-related Experiences in Urban India Amit Upadhyay. Part III. Gender and
Disability 8. Bhalo Meye: Cultural Construction of Gender and Disability in
Bengal Nandini Ghosh 9. Body Politics and Disabled Femininity: Perspectives
of Adolescent Girls from Delhi Renu Addlakha 10. Identity Formation and
Transnational Discourses: Thinking beyond Identity Politics Michele
Friedner 11. The Inner World of Adolescent Girls with Hearing Impairment:
Two Case Studies Sandhya Limaye. Part IV. Assertion of Difference through
Art and Communication 12. Body/Text: Art Project on Deafness and
Communication José Abad Lorente 13. Blind With Camera: Photographs by the
Visually Impaired Partho Bhowmick. Part V. Contesting Marginality at Micro-
and Macro-levels 14. From Mental Illness to Disability: Choices for Women
Users/Survivors of Psychiatry in Self and Identity Constructions Bhargavi
V. Davar 15. Need for a Framework for Combined Disability and Gender
Budgeting Asha Hans, Amrita Patel and S. B. Agnihotri 16. Sameness and
Difference: Twin Track Empowerment for Women with Disabilities Amita Dhanda
17. Participation, Inclusion and the Law: Moving beyond Rhetoric Jeeja
Ghosh. About the Editor. Notes on Contributors. Index