What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that
affect disabled people's lives, and what can disabled people, their representative …

INTRODUCTION… there was increasing anger, hostility and suspicion among organizations
of disabled people that much that passed as 'disability research'was nothing more than a 'rip …

Disability Studies is an area of study which examines social, political, cultural, and economic
factors that define'disability'and establish personal and collective responses to difference …

The 2015 Special Issue of Disability & Society brings together timely discussion of how
changing sociopolitical and cultural relations are redefining disability. Use of the disabled …

This path-breaking international handbook of disability studies signals the emergence of a
vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability …

Disabled people and their allies worldwide have organized over the past few decades to
challenge the discrimination and exclusion of disabled people from mainstream society. In …

The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was
the first human rights treaty to be developed by disabled people, for disabled people …

This book seeks to explore how disability is understood and the position and experiences of
disabled people both within and across different societies. The authors explore the question …

Presenting fully integrative text covering disability from a variety of disciplines This
innovative text first reviews existing theories, then sets forth a new viewpoint that …

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability
Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up …