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Parenting a disabled child in South Korea : rewriting disability, parenthood and citizenship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This thesis is about parental experiences and practices in association with disabled children in South Korea. It is first and foremost about disablement. It aims to expose the inequality and exclusion experienced by disabled children and their families.
Choi, Bogcheon
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Who is “us” in “nothing about us without us”? Rethinking the politics of disability research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Disability research (and disability studies) emerged from the activism of disabled people who not only challenged oppressive legal and social structures, but also the ways in which research was used to legitimate that oppression. At the forefront of this
Brighton, J., Inckle, K., Sparkes, A. C.
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Listening for policy change: how the voices of disabled people shaped Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
: Voice has become an important yet ambivalent tool for the recognition of disability. The transformative potential of voice is dependent on a political commitment to listening to disabled people. To focus on listening redirects accountability for social
Thill, Cate, Cate Thill
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Self-directed disability support: building people’s capacity through peer support and action research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
How are people with disability experiencing and managing the transition towards self directed support and preparing for the NDIS? In this project, small groups of people with disability around Australia met over 6 months to talk about their disability ...
Fisher, KR ; https://orcid.org/   +13 more
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Accessing democracy: disability politics in the United States and Canada

open access: yes, 2021
Rasmussen, ClaireWhy have legislative guarantees of equality rights been ineffective in addressing key inequalities in substantive political, economic and social citizenship for people with disabilities in the United States, the global innovator in ...
Jenks, Andrew B.
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Mules and Madmen: On the Disabling Habitats of Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Toomer

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2023
This essay reads the work of two major Harlem Renaissance authors as underacknowledged sites of disability politics and aesthetics, situating this moment in African-American artistic innovation as integral to the literary history of disability and ...
Liz Bowen
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Understanding Disability

open access: yes, 2021
The book presents disability as an interdisciplinary issue of interest to representatives of numerous scientific disciplines. It includes chapters on systemic solutions and policies in disability, the role and significance of institutions in the ...
Podstawka, Katarzyna   +15 more
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The experience of disability activism through the development of the disability movement: how do disabled activists find their way in politics?

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
This paper reflects critically upon part of the findings of research about key activists’ experience of disability politics in Cyprus from 1966 to 2004.
Simoni Symeonidou
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Thinking With Disability Studies

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2014
In this essay, I offer tentative ruminations about the possibilities/challenges of theory and praxis in the field of disability studies. I begin the essay by thinking through my own positionality as a non-disabled woman of color scholar/ally in the field.
Nirmala Erevelles
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Pandemic Lived Experience, Crip Utopias, and Dismodernist Revolutions: For a More‐Than‐Social Model of Disability

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2023
At its height, the Covid‐19 pandemic dispersed across society a perception of bodyminded contingency that ushered in modes of “building community” that were unimaginable in pre‐pandemic times, alongside an intensification of health and social ...
Arianna Introna
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