Critical Theory and Disability

A Phenomenological Approach

Teodor Mladenov (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-2216-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Teodor Mladenov has a PhD in Sociology of Disability from King's College London. He has published articles in Disability & Society, Critical Social Policy and Alter - European Journal of Disability Research, and has worked for many years as a researcher for disabled people's organisations and international NGOs operating in Bulgaria.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: THE BODY
CHAPTER 3: DISABILITY ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 4: PERSONAL ASSISTANCE
CHAPTER 5: DISCRIMINATION
CHAPTER 6: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF INACCESSIBILITY
CHAPTER 7: SEXUALITY 257
CHAPTER 8: THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2016
Reihe/Serie	Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 228 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5013-2216-8 / 1501322168
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-2216-7 / 9781501322167
Zustand	Neuware