Critical Theory and Disability: A phenomenological approach

TY - BOOK

T1 - Critical Theory and Disability

T2 - A phenomenological approach

AU - Mladenov, Teodor

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Teodor Mladenov, 2015. All rights reserved.

PY - 2014/1/1

Y1 - 2014/1/1

N2 - Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social practices that undermine disabled people's well being, drawing on cases from contemporary Bulgaria. It includes in-depth examination of key mechanisms such as disability assessment, personal assistance (direct payments) and disability-based discrimination. On this basis, wider sociological and ontological claims are made concerning the body, identity, otherness, and exclusion.

AB - Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social practices that undermine disabled people's well being, drawing on cases from contemporary Bulgaria. It includes in-depth examination of key mechanisms such as disability assessment, personal assistance (direct payments) and disability-based discrimination. On this basis, wider sociological and ontological claims are made concerning the body, identity, otherness, and exclusion.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85198930287

UR - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-theory-and-disability-9781628921991/

M3 - Book

AN - SCOPUS:85198930287

SN - 9781628921991

BT - Critical Theory and Disability

PB - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

ER -