Critical Theory and Disability

A Phenomenological Approach

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Teodor Mladenov

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Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social practices that undermine disabled people's well being, drawing on cases from contemporary Bulgaria. It includes in-depth examination of key mechanisms such as disability assessment, personal assistance (direct payments) and disability-based discrimination. On this basis, wider sociological and ontological claims are made concerning the body, identity, otherness, and exclusion.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-02-12
Mått160 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Theory and Contemporary Society
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781628921991

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In this wonderfully affirmative appeal to the power of social theory and philosophy, Teodor Mladenov has written a book that carefully exposes the existential-ontological dimensions of disablism whilst, simultaneously, opening up a space for positively re-imagining and re-valuing different ways of being human. This is a potent reminder that activism and theory work together at the levels of the society and the self.