Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday
Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday
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What does the everyday reality of being disabled mean for those involved? Bringing together a range of qualitative methodologies, interviews and ethnographies in a global context, this collection highlights the mundane interactions and everyday occurrences in the lives of people with disabilities across the life-course. It will provi
'This is a ‘must read’ book that draws attention to everyday life with disability and disablism - across the globe. It crosses social science borders to enrich our understanding of disability diversity in original and informative ways.' - Carol Thomas, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University
‘Sakellariou and Thomas' book is an important emergent approach to disability studies scholarship that is of translational relevance across the social sciences and the applied health professions. It is a fresh new approach that, at the same time, takes us back to disability studies’ very foundations in the critical social sciences engagement with disability. The authors reveal experiences -- toileting, dressing and other obscured but crucial moments of daily life — as both meaningful in highly individual ways and to have shared resonance for disabled people collectively.’ - Pamela Block, Professor and Director, Disability Studies Concentration, Stony Brook University
Gareth M. Thomas is a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is a sociologist interested in medicine, disability, stigma, reproduction, and place. His first research monograph – Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics: Care, Choice, and Disability in the Prenatal Clinic – was published by Routledge in March 2017.
Dikaios Sakellariou is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Healthcare Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is interested in health inequalities, experiences of disability and disablement, and the intersubjective nature of care practices. He has co-authored and co-edited the volumes A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapies without Borders (with Nick Pollard and Frank Kronenberg), and Politics of Occupation-Centred Practice (with Nick Pollard).