Title Disability and rurality : identity, gender and belonging / edited by Karen Soldatic and Kelley Johnson

Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Interdisciplinary disability studies Interdisciplinary disability studies. Contents pt. 1. Disability, identity and rurality -- pt. 2. Disability, gender and rurality -- pt. 3. Disability, belonging and rurality Summary This is the first book to explore how far disability challenges dominant understandings of rurality, identity, gender and belonging within the rural literature. The book focuses particularly on the ways disabled people give, and are given meaning and value in relation to ethical rural considerations of place, physical strength, productivity and social reciprocity. A range of different perspectives to the issues of living rurally with a disability inform this work. It includes the lived experience of people with disabilities through the use of life history methodologies, rich qualitative accounts and theoretical perspectives. It goes beyond conventional notions of rurality, grounding its analysis in a range of disability spaces and places and including the work of disability sociologists, geographers, cultural theorists and policy analysts. This interdisciplinary focus reveals the contradictory and competing relations of rurality for disabled people and the resultant impacts and effects upon disabled people and their communities materially, discursively and symbolically. Of interest to all scholars of disability, rural studies, social work and welfare, this book provides a critical intervention into the growing scholarship of rurality that has bypassed the pivotal role of disability in understanding the lived experience of rural landscapes Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 4, 2017) Subject Rural health services. People with disabilities. Disabled Persons POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. People with disabilities Rural health services Form Electronic book Author Soldatic, Karen, editor Johnson, Kelley, 1947- editor. ISBN 9781317150305 1317150309 9781315577340 1315577348 9781317150312 1317150317 9781317150299 1317150295

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