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Title Disability studies in India : interdisciplinary perspectives / Nilika Mehrotra, editor
Published Singapore : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Contents Situating disability studies : a prolegomenon -- Part I. Epistemologies and representations. Decolonising disability studies? Developing South Asia-specific approaches to understanding disability -- Disorder, disability, difference : (re)presenting autism in India -- Disability and public spaces : universal design approaches -- Ignorance of disability : some epistemological questions -- Rethinking monsters : teaching disability studies through history and the humanities -- Part II. Policy and institutionalisation. Service and knowledge : the emergence of disability studies extension -- Disability education at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi -- Establishing a disability studies centre in a law university : recounting the CDS NALSAR experience -- Mapping disability studies programmes in India : a case of Hyderabad, Telangana -- Disability social work education : emerging trajectory in India -- Part III. Academia -- activism interface : enabling practices. Resisting dominant construction of blindness and the genesis of disability studies in the University of Delhi : a historical context -- Emancipating the lives of persons with disabilities : potential for contributions by disability studies -- The right to work for persons with disability in India : a critical disability theory perspective -- 'Encounters' with disabled people : concerns from field work settings -- Examining the question of deaf education within disability studies in Delhi, India -- Examining the experience, barriers and enabling measures for visually impaired visitors in heritage sites -- a study in the Indian context to enhance accessibility and inclusion
Summary This book examines the state of art in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the broader South Asian situation. It presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the basic idea, evolution, practices and challenges of researching and teaching disability studies at various higher education institutions and in other civil society spaces. The chapters address a range of related themes, including activism, development policies, research, pedagogy, spatial and social access, caste and gender representations and rights-based discourses. Given the scope of its coverage, the book is of interest to scholars and students in area of humanities, education, law, sociology and social work, political science development and disability studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Disability studies -- India
Disability studies
India
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Mehrotra, Nilika.
ISBN 9789811526169
9811526168