Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability

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Anthropology

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Wordery

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Springer netherlands

Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability : Springer : 9789402401172 : 9402401172 : 23 Aug 2016 : This book explores the concept of "occupation" in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisible diagnoses/impairments, socio-cultural perceptions and environmental barriers and offers innovative ideas on how to apply theoretical training to real world contexts. Inspired by disability justice and ?Disability Occupy Wall Street / Decolonize Disability? movements in the US and related movements abroad, this book builds on politically engaged critical approaches to disability that intersect occupational therapy, disability studies and anthropology. "Occupying Disability" will provide a discursive space where the concepts of disability, culture and occupatio

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