Belonging in the Life Journeys of People with Disabilities

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-21
• Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 160
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041146049

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Kelley Johnson is an internationally recognised scholar in the fields of disability, institutional closure, social inclusion, rights, and gender. She currently holds two honorary professorships at Deakin University and UNSW (University of New South Wales) in Australia. She was previously a Professor of Disability and Policy and Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at the UNSW.Alisha Gilliland is a woman, mother, partner, friend, and advocate. She is employed at Gippsland Centre Against Sexual Assault, working alongside people who live with cognitive and intellectual disability and counsellor-advocates on a peer-led social and sexual safety education program, for and by people with disabilities. She has also worked as a researcher and educator with Deakin University, Australia, where she met Kelley Johnson.Ramunas McRae completed his PhD at Deakin University, Australia and is a deaf researcher, educator, artist and award-winning filmmaker whose work focuses on Deaf mental health, language acquisition and access to communication.Gerard Minogue is a founding member of the Clare (County Clare) Inclusive Research Group and the Inclusive Research Network of Ireland. He has been involved in doing research on issues important to himself and other people with learning disabilities since 2008. He published with fellow disability advocate, Orla McMahon and Dr Ellinior Flynn an academic at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), an easy read guide to the exemptions to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that Ireland put in place.Nihal Iscel has a Bachelor of Psychology from Edith Cown University, Australia. She has been working in the multicultural and disability sectors in various roles for more than 20 years, aiming to help and contribute to making positive systemic changes and help break barriers for people in minority groups, including refugees, humanitarian entrants, people with disabilities, and isolated Women and Children.Chester Chan became involved in writing this book through meeting Fredio Lam, from whom he learned about the importance of getting social change to happen. He is involved in volunteering services with children or adolescents with special education needs (SEN), middle-aged and elderly people with different difficulties or chronic diseases led by Fredio and many Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) or other social services.Rachael Walters is a long-standing self-advocate, and was an integral member and project worker at New Wave Gippsland (a Gippsland-wide self-advocacy group) for over 10 years. For the last six years, she has been a member of the Community Advisory Committee (Community Voices) at West Gippsland Healthcare Group, Australia. Currently, she is employed as a Peer Educator at Gippsland Centre Against Sexual Assault.Diana K. Piantedosi is a public policy specialist and researcher with senior leadership experience across national and state disability sectors. She is currently Senior Manager, Policy & Advocacy at Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA), Australia’s national peak body for women with disabilities. She completed her PhD in Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia, where she is now an Adjunct Research Fellow, and is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia.Anwiya O. Khanania has a Diploma in primary education and school management from Ramadi Teaching Institute, Iraq, and has been an educator for most of her working life. She hopes that her chapter will support readers in seeing the importance of interacting and accepting multiple cultures and people adapting to new societies, while retaining their culture of origin.

This heartwarming, and sometimes heart wrenching, book presents the diverse life histories of seven people with disability from around the globe, reflecting on what belonging means to them personally, within their families, and communities. Each life history brings to life the myriad ways in which belonging (or barriers to belonging) are experienced and the impact of this on the story tellers’ lives. The book invites readers to consider belonging as a social, interpersonal and relational experience. Professor Angela Dew, Disability and Inclusion, Deakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaThis book revolutionises the belonging and embodied difference research fields by doing much more than giving voice to disabled individuals. The book is a must read for those who want to at once understand and explain the phenomenon of belonging in relationship to displacement and intersectional difference in a genuinely relational way by transcending simplistic conceptions of home, disabled self and becoming. Collectively, the embodied experiential renditions of disabled folks compiled in this volume offer powerful counternarrative conceptions and articulations that defy cliches and rigid categorizations.Alexis Padilla, Associate, Adjunct Faculty, City University of New York, Hunter College, USAThis fascinating book explores the meanings and experiences of belonging through life histories by a diverse group of disabled indivituals. It also provides informative historical and theoretical accounts of the various ways beloning has been understood. The book is an urgent reminder of the importance of belonging, not least in our times, when political, cultural and natural forces lead to increasing and often devastating displacement of vulnerable people.Rannveig Traustadóttir, Professor Emerita and Director, Centre for Disability Studies, School of Education, University of Iceland, IcelandBelonging in the Life Journeys of People with Disabiltiies is a profound and thought-provoking contribution to the global discourse on disability and human rights, and a refreshing antidote to the assumption that lived experience has true value only when viewed through the prism of academic theory and institutional scholarship. These deeply authentic life stories, spanning diverse societies and cultures, are respectfully bookended by Johnson and Gilliland’s rich reflections on the myriad meanings of belonging in all our lives.Stephen Hallett (OBE), Executive Director, Ability Beyond Borders (ABB)This is not an ordinary book. You cannot easily pass by the personal testimonies compiled here. They will make you weep and feel angry learning of the barriers erected by injustice and indifference; you will gasp with admiration at the tenacity and artfulness of those asserting the right to be treated with dignity and live fulfilling lives. To belong. Yes, you will also find the learned commentaries you are entitled to expect, which are brought to life by the exceptional, moving accounts of those with intense lived experience. Josef Szwarc, Senior Advisor Policy and Advocacy, The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc., Melbourne, AustraliaAn innovative and powerful analysis of belonging through a synthesis of scholarship and the life histories of seven disabled people from diverse countries and cultures whose voices speak clearly and eloquently of their lived experience of belonging.Roy Sainsbury, Emeritus Professor, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, UK

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