Alex Cockain

Learning Disability and Everyday Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings into conversation ideas from social theory with 'thick' descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003860358
• Artikelnr.: 70048071

Autorenporträt

Alex Cockain is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social Care and The Graduate College at Canterbury Christ Church University. Since his first book entitled Young Chinese in Urban China (2012), much of his work has focused upon issues of social inclusion and social exclusion and especially how ability and disability are made through social encounters, discourse, media representations, and everyday practices. His recent work has also explored the tactics disabled people and their families deploy to cope, and make do, with exclusionary places and practices and the ways they attempt to manage disabling social encounters.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Dis/orientating directions

1. Encountering, and interpreting, everyday life in-or alongside-significant learning disability, or the world inside-out, and back-to-front

2. Dwelling, outside(r)ness, and (various) other methodological positions

Part 2: Conversations about-and with (or alongside and for)-Paul and other autistic people and things

3. Authorising languages

4. Everyday discourse and everyday power

5. Tu(r)ning (in)to the things themselves

Part 3: Out (of) and about place, let's go outside

6. Becoming quixotic? A discussion on the discursive construction of disability and how this is maintained through social relations

7. Walking small with 'Paul': On (not) passing in purportedly public places

8. Disturbing geographies and in/stability in and around a supermarket

Part 4: Inside, outside, and in/between

9. Accounting for an encounter with a social worker

10. Home, away, and the spaces, places, and persons in/between

11. A room of Paul's own, and the apparent comfort of things

Part 5: To the things themselves

12. Forms of autistic presence and practice

Rezensionen

"Learning Disability and Everyday Life concerns autism, but the word does not appear in the book title. There is a reason for that, as it becomes clear by reading. Alex Cockain is critical towards pre-given categories; he is aware of the power of language, and he tries to open a narrative space of encounter challenging the assumptions, postures and stereotypes which accompany autistic and disabled persons. Of course, as the Author discusses with much reflexivity, there are limits in his strategy, as with every experiment. Still, it poses a problem, challenges conventions, and allows reconfiguration and renegotiation. So, the title refers to 'learning disability', together with 'everyday life'. On the one hand, focusing on the rhythms and practices of the everyday means paying attention to the scrutiny of the small and the ordinary, including practices like eating, walking or sleeping. But clearly, the small and the ordinary are not meaningless; quite the contrary, the everyday is political and allows access to the broader world of disability."

Alberto Vanolo (12 Aug 2024): Learning Disability and Everyday Life, Disability & Society, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2024.2391612