Katharine Quarmby

Broschiertes Buch

Scapegoat

Why We Are Failing Disabled People

Beschreibung

The first book to examine the roots of our uncomfortable and often hostile attitudes towards disabled people, and to argue for greater official recognition of these crimes as hate crimes

Autor

KATHARINE QUARMBY is a campaigning journalist and an award-winning film-maker. She has worked as a producer on BBC Panorama and Newsnight, edited Disability Now magazine, served as a correspondent for the Economist and written for most of the broadsheet newspapers. She was the first British journalist to investigate disability hate crime and her report for Scope, 'Getting Away with Murder', has revolutionised thinking about the issue. Scapegoat is her first book for adults. She won the AMIA International Literature Award for Scapegoat in 2011, and was a finalist for the Paul Foot Award in the same year, for her many years of campaigning journalism on the same subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781846273223
• ISBN-10: 1846273226
• Artikelnr.: 35074679