Occupying disability : critical approaches to community, justice, and decolonizing disability /: critical approaches to community, justice, and decolonizing disability. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, editors.
• Editors: Block, Pamela
• Contents: Occupying disability : an introduction / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard -- Krips, cops and occupy : reflections from Oscar Grant Plaza / Sunaura Taylor, Marg Hall, Jessica Lehman, Rachel Liebert, Akemi Nishida, and Jean Steward -- Minamata : disability and the sea of sorrow / Mami Aoyama -- Movements at war? disability and anti-occupation activism in Israel / Liat Ben-Moshe -- Landings : decolonizing disability, indigeneity and poetic methods / Petra Kuppers -- Occupying autism : rhetoric, involuntarity, and the meaning of autistic lives / Melanie Yergeau -- Scenes and encounters, bodies and abilities : devising performance with Cyrff Ystwyth / Margaret Ames -- Artistic therapeutic treatment, colonialism & spectacle : a Brazilian tale / Marta Peres, Francine Albeiro de Camargo, Jose Octavio Pompeu e Silva, and Pamela Block -- A situational analysis of persons with disabilities in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago : education and employment policy imperatives / Annicia Gayle-Geddes -- Neoliberal academia and a critique of disability studies / Akemi Nishida -- Soul searching occupations : critical reflections on occupational therapy's commitment to social justice, disability rights, and participation / Mansha Mirza, Susan Magasi, and Joy Hammel -- Refusing to go away : the Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group / Denise M. Nepveux -- Why bother talking? on having cerebral palsy and speech impairment : preserving and promoting oral communication through occupational community and communities practice / Rick Stoddart and David Turnbull -- Occupying seats, occupying space, occupying time : deaf young adults in vocational training centers in Bangalore, India / Michele Friedner -- My world, my experience with occupy Wall Street and how we can go further / Nick Dupree -- Beyond policy -- a real life journey of engagement and involvement / Stephanie de la Haye -- Self advocacy and self determination for youth with disability and their parents during school transition planning / Eva L. Rodriguez -- Should robots be personal assistants? / Katherine D. Seelman -- Crab and yoghurt / Tobias Hecht -- Occupying disability studies in Brazil / Anahi Guedes de Mello, Pamela Block, and Adriano Henrique Nuerberg -- Black & blue : policing disability & poverty beyond occupy / Leroy F. Moore Jr., Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, and Emmitt H. Thrower -- Blindness and occupation : personal observations and reflections / Rikki Chaplin -- Surviving Stevenage / Roy Birch, Ann Copeland, Geoff Clarke, Neil Hopkins, Rosie Berry, Richard J.N. Copeland, STL, Bruce James, CYNTH, Paul Evans, Darren Messenger, Lucia Birch, and Andrew H. Smith -- If disability is a dance, who is the choreographer? a conversation about life occupations, art, movement / Neil Marcus, Devva Kasnitz, and Pamela Block -- Critical approaches to community, justice and decolonizing disability : editors' summary / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard -- Science (fiction), hope and love : conclusions / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (394 pages), illustratons
• Subjects: 362.4; People with disabilities -- Social conditions; Disabilities -- Social aspects; Disabilities -- Philosophy; Disability studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Disability studies; People with disabilities -- Social conditions; Psychology; Health Psychology; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Anthropology; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401799843; 9401799849
• Related ISBNs: 9789401799836; 9401799830
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.