Disability as Diversity in India (eBook, PDF)

Theory, Practice, and Lived Experience
Redaktion: Limaye, Sandhya; Kayama, Misa; Johnstone, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon intersectionality theory, it explores a range of issues regarding everyday experiences of disability in relation to gender, religion, social experiences, India's neoliberal economy, and the built environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040027998
• Artikelnr.: 70302121

Autorenporträt

Sandhya Limaye is a Professor and Chair of the Centre for Disability Studies and Action, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. As an Erasmus Mundus, Nehru-Fulbright, and Rockefeller fellow, she presented the alternate report on women with disability in India at the UN, Geneva. She also is involved in C 20 Summit for Diversity, Equity, and Disability groups in India. Christopher J. Johnstone is an Associate Professor of Comparative and International Development Education, University of Minnesota, USA. He has written widely on issues of inclusive education, inclusive development, higher education, and disability studies. He first visited India as an undergraduate study abroad student and has since led two major research grants on topics related to disability with his colleague Sandhya Limaye. Misa Kayama, Ph.D., MSW, is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Mississippi, USA. Her research focuses on the cultural shaping of children's experience of stigmatization due to disability in Asian countries and the U.S., and other intersectional issues such as race and immigration status, through cross-cultural, ethnographic approaches. The findings have been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and two academic books.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Building theory- 1. Introduction- Sandhya Limaye and Misa Kayama
Part II: Reflections of the Experiences of Disability: Emergent Disability
Studies Scholarship- 2. Rights or Rehabilitation? Ways of
Institutionalizing Disability Studies in India- Nilika Mehrotra 3.
Disability, Gender, and the Trajectories of Identity in India- Asha Hans
4. Deaf Education in India: From the Lens of an Academician- Varsha Gathoo
5. Being Whole: Synthesising Identity, Spirituality and Disability-
Srilatha Juvva and Prerana Sharma 6. Embodiment, Identity and Design for
Disability- Shilpa Das Part III: Reflections of the Experiences of
Disability: Disability and Diversity in Practice 7. Little People: Bodily
Frustrations and cultural stigma- Nandini Ghosh 8. 'Transitioning self':
Psychiatric Diagnosis and its impact- Mahima Nayar 9. Employees with
disabilities at workplace: Voice of Persons with disabilities- Mohita 10.
Living with Disability: Experiences of Women with Disabilities from Odisha-
Sankalpa Satpathy 11. Lived experiences of persons with learning
disabilities: Journey from stigmatization to acceptance- Deepali Kapoor
Part IV: Personal Narratives- 12. Becoming a Disabled, Multi-lingual,
Colonized, Indian Researcher: Dilemmas of Researching Disability and
Inclusive Education- Tanushree Sarkar 13. Unsettling Neuro-Queerness:
Exploring the Relationships Between Mental Disabilities and Queerness
Beyond Intersectionality- Suchaita Tenneti 14. Overcoming the Barriers:
Challenging the Challenge- Amitabh Mehrotra Part V: Conclusion- 15.
Bourdieu's Field, Habitus, Cultural Contestation, and Disability Studies:
Concluding Thoughts on Disability and Diversity in India - Christopher
Johnstone
Index