Books in the Routledge Advances in Disability Studies series

This book provides a multifaceted exploration of changing social attitudes toward disability. Adopting a tripartite approach to examining disability, the book looks at historical, cultural, and education studies, to break down some of the unhelpful boundaries between disciplines so that disability is recognised as an issue for all of us across all aspects of society.

Spotlighting a pressing issue, this book discusses how to meet the needs of disabled people in crises and conflict situations. It explores key issues in managing such situations, from preparedness to response to recovery and rebuilding, including international perspectives and outlining their implications at the policy, program, and personal level.

This volume considers what it means to make claims of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights movement, rich areas of academic inquiry into disability, increased philosophical attention to disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology.

Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise, yet it is often dismissed as a niche market. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies.

Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross-national study of active citizenship and disability in Europe, this book analyses the consequences of ongoing changes in Europe - what opportunities do persons with disabilities have to exercise Active Citizenship? Volume 1 approaches the conditions for Active Citizenship from a macro perspective in order to capture the impact of the overall disability policy system. It draws out the implications of the findings for future disability policy in Europe and beyond.

Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross-national study of active citizenship and disability in Europe, this book analyses the consequences of ongoing changes in Europe ¿ what opportunities do persons with disabilities have to exercise Active Citizenship? Volume 2 analyses how men and women with disabilities reflexively make their way through the world, pursuing their own interests and values.

Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise, yet it is often dismissed as a niche market. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies is indicative of social prejudice and highlights, conversely, how the academy can and does engage with disability studies.

Incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, and with a global focus this volume brings together insights from disability studies, spatial geographies and social policy with the purpose of exploring how spatial factors shape, limit or enhance policy towards, and the experiences of, disabled people.

This book provides a multifaceted exploration of changing social attitudes toward disability. Adopting a tripartite approach to examining disability, the book looks at historical, cultural, and education studies, to break down some of the unhelpful boundaries between disciplines so that disability is recognised as an issue for all of us across all aspects of society.

Design and branding have immense power to create, label and affix value. This innovative book argues that disability as a category is created by the way it is designed; the disabled are branded as in need of specialized, segregated services, products, policies and even rights. They can, therefore, be rebranded.

Spotlighting a pressing issue, this book discusses how to meet the needs of disabled people in crises and conflict situations. It explores key issues in managing such situations, from preparedness to response to recovery and rebuilding, including international perspectives and outlining their implications at the policy, program, and personal level.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its impact on policy. Engaging with the latest debates in criminology, disability and violence studies, it goes beyond conventional notions of hate crime to look at violences in their myriad forms as they affect disabled people's lives.