South Asia and Disability Studies - Redefining Boundaries and Extending Horizons torrent

South Asia and Disability Studies: Redefining Boundaries and Extending Horizons
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English | ISBN: 1433119110 | 2014 | 311 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Incorporating scholarship that addresses the social, economic, cultural, and historical facets of the experience of disability in South Asia, this book presents the reader with a comprehensive, cogent, and nuanced view of the constructions of disability in this region. In doing so, it focuses on the lived experiences of people with disabilities and their families, analyzing such disabling barriers as poverty, caste, and other inequities that limit their access to education, employment, equity, and empowerment. It addresses the interpretations of disability within different South Asian contexts including policy, family, educational systems, films, and literary narratives. Situated in an interdisciplinary perspective that spans areas such as cultural studies, law, disability studies in education, sociology, and historiography,
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