Disability studies in India : interdisciplinary perspectives /: interdisciplinary perspectives. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nilika Mehrotra, editor.
• Other Names: Mehrotra, Nilika
• Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Editor -- 1 Situating Disability Studies: A Prolegomenon -- Epistemologies and Representations -- Policy and Institutionalization -- Academia-Activism Interface: Enabling Practices -- References -- Epistomologies and Representations -- 2 Decolonising Disability Studies? Developing South Asia-Specific Approaches to Understanding Disability -- Introduction -- Origins of Disability Studies in Western Europe and the US -- Contexts of Engagement with Disability in South Asia -- Cultural Relativism and Its Shortcomings Countering Culture -- Constraining Disability Studies -- Institutional Restraints -- Developing Disability Studies in South Asia -- South Asian Cosmologies -- Countering Assumptions of Alterity -- Local Biologies and Political Movements -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Disorder, Disability, Difference: (Re)presenting Autism in India -- Introduction: Contextualizing Autism in India -- Autism in India: An Historical Verview -- From 'Disorder' to 'Disability': Autism, Families and Advocacy -- Life with Autism: Some Experiences and Expressions of 'Difference' -- Autism in Hindi Cinema Concluding Observations -- References -- 4 Disability and Public Spaces: Universal Design Approaches -- References -- 5 Ignorance of Disability: Some Epistemological Questions -- Disability in India -- Ignorance of Disability in Intellectual Scholarship -- Possibility of Disability Studies in India -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Rethinking Monsters: Teaching Disability Studies Through History and the Humanities -- References -- Policy and Institutionalisation -- 7 Service and Knowledge: The Emergence of Disability Studies Extension -- Introduction -- Genesis of the Existing Schemes Inequity in HE -- Strategies to Address Inequity in HE -- Disability Studies Centres (DSCs) -- Service and Knowledge Through Disability Studies Extension -- References -- 8 Disability Education at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi -- Relationship Between Disability Studies and Home Science Education in India -- How Interest in Disability Emerged at Lady Irwin College -- The Study of Disability at Higher Education Levels -- Interdisciplinary Nature of Work on Disability -- Disability as Social Construction -- Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies (HDCS) Department of Fabric and Apparel Science (FAS) -- Department of Resource Management and Design Application (RMDA) -- Department of Development Communication and Extension (DCE) -- Department of Education -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Establishing a Disability Studies Centre in a Law University: Recounting the CDS NALSAR Experience -- Introduction: Need for Disability Studies -- Other Institutional Models to Undertake Disability Studies -- Multidisciplinary Centre in a University -- Disability Studies University -- Disability Studies Chairs
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.4; Disability studies -- India; Disability studies; India; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811526169; 9811526168
• Related ISBNs: 9789811526152; 981152615X
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