Understanding disability : interdisciplinary critical approaches

• Autore: Uniyal Ranu
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.4
• Altri autori: RizviFatima
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Disability and Empirical Experiences -- 1 I Can Hear Her Breathing: Disabled Writers Writing Disability -- References -- 2 Pilot Research Study: Utilizing the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol Online to Help Parents with the Stresses of Having a Special Needs Child -- Overview Special Needs Children: Research of PTSD and Treatment -- Parents of Special Needs Children -- Status of Support -- EMDR -- Current Study: The Purposes of This Study -- Method -- Participants -- Assessment Tools -- EMDR Treatment Provision -- Results -- Discussion -- Limitations and Questions for Further Study -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Social Role Valorization Theory in India: An Idea with Consequences -- What Is Social Role Valorization? -- Historical Roots and Impact of SRV -- Establishing the Foundation: SRV Teaching Across India -- A Platform for SRV Leaders -- SRV in Practice -- Case Studies -- Future Directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Hold Your Breath: Promoting Health for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities -- Introduction -- Understanding the Phrase "Hold Your Breath" -- Breath and Disability -- Breath: Possibilities of Reducing the Impact -- Breath: A Foundation of Healthy Body and Healthy Mind -- BREATH: A Practical and Scientific Application -- Prayer-An Activity for a Positive Impact -- Chanting-The Joy That Brings a Positive Change -- Breathing Exercises-A Process with an Impact on the Mind -- The Double Breathing-The Foundation of Mental Health -- The Impact of Double Breathing -- Watching the Breath-A Science, Not a Belief -- Scientific Observations -- References -- Part II Disability in Literature, Film and Theatre. ; 5 The Mad Mother in the 1BHK-Hallowing and Harrowing Positions in Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom -- Bibliography -- 6 (No) Shared Towers: Performing the Bipolar in Em and the Big Hoom -- Life and Theatre: The World Is a Messy Stage -- Madness and Culture: Who's Stage Is It Anyway? -- Language and Mental Illness: No Escape from the Madd(en)ing Crowd -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Disability, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Bengali Fiction -- Introduction -- Disability and Embodiment -- Disability and Emasculation -- Disability and Violence -- Disability, Sexuality, and Subjectivity -- Disability and Ethnicity -- Corporeal and Spectral Bodies -- Disability and Postcolonial Difference -- References -- 8 Stigmatizing the Other: Treatment of Disability in Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" -- Introduction -- The Discredited and the Discreditable Subject -- Disability: A Performance of Discourse -- Stigma: Actual Social Identity Versus Virtual Social Identity -- Stigma and the Dilemma of Difference -- Stigma and the Unstable Body -- Exclusionary Cultural Paradigm and Isolation of the Stigmatized -- Abled and Disabled (Perspectives) Not Types -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Notions of Normalcy and Changing Definitions: Defeating Stereotypes and Creating Acceptance of Disability -- Introduction -- Objectives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10 Normalizing Disability: Discourses of the Decolonized Body -- References -- 11 Disabled Identities and the Linguistic World: Exploring Dysfunctionalities in Leela Gour Broome's Flute in the Forest -- Bibliography -- 12 From Narrative Prosthesis to Disability Counternarrative: Reading Cognitive Difference in Aparna Sen's 15 Park Avenue -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Notes -- Appendix 2: Filmography -- Works Cited -- 13 Changing Social Perspectives on Disability in Hindi Films Dosti and Barfi. ; Introduction -- Literature, Film, and Society -- Social Exclusionary Practices Towards Disability -- Indian Perspective on Disability -- Disability and Social Model -- Disability in Literature and Film -- Dosti (1964) -- Barfi (2012) -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 The Societal Gaze and Stigma: A Study of Mahesh Dattani's Tara -- References -- 15 Disability and Gender Interface in Dattani's Tara -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Dealing with Disability -- 16 People of Determination-Making Achievements, Overcoming Challenges -- Disability Statistics Matter -- Not Disabled, Just Differently Abled -- Ancient India and Disability-Constructing Disabilities Through Narratives of Sacred Texts and Mythologies -- Kingdoms of Ancient and Medieval India and Their Dealings with Disability -- Perspective of the Arab World on Disability -- 'The Determined Ones'-UAE and People of Determination -- National Policy for Empowering People with Special Needs -- The Six Pillars of the National Policy -- The People of Determination Retreat -- Eight Tenets of the Retreat -- Special Olympics World Game -- Caring for People of Determination During COVID-19 -- Bibliography -- 17 Disability and Institutional Failure: A Study of Good Kings, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 18 Education and Labour Market for Persons with Disabilities in India -- Introduction -- Labour Market Linkages and Economics of Education -- Disability and Discrimination: Education and Labour Market -- PWDs in India and Labour Market -- Discrimination in the Labour Market for PWDs: Emerging Concerns -- Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes for PWDs in India -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 19 Honk Honk: Women, You Drive Crazy! -- Bibliography. ; 20 Contesting Representation, Writing Self: A Critical Study of Disabled Life Narratives in A Bumblebee's Balcony and One Little Finger -- Self-representations Versus Societal Representations -- Urban and Rural, East and West in Representations of Disability -- Writing Self -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 21 Shaping the Disability Discourse: From Theoretical Groundwork to Lived Experiences -- Bibliography.
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding Disability
• ISBN: 981-9949-25-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910760260603321
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