Studying Disability Arts and Culture

What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Cul...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 420Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 174 x 243 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Donna...

Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and...

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Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review o...

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual...

A concise introduction to the knowledge, values and skills required for effective practice in the field of intellectual disability, this book cover...

Finding love is challenging under the best of circumstances, but the stakes are even higher when you're a young, female expat living in a conflict ...

Reducere. A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation--and the debut of an important new soci...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert McRuerContends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentiv...

Pawel Pawlikowski's Academy Award-winning 2013 film Ida has drawn acclaim and controversy. Sheila Skaff explains the film's historical setting and ...

Reducere. Praise for the Sixth Edition: ``Adds an important international perspective on illness and disability. The personal narratives help bring the real ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jasbir K. PuarIn The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopoli...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Paul K. LongmoreEditor: Lauri UmanskyDisability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From anteb...

Reducere. What if we fundamentally misunderstood what it meant to run arts organizations "like a business"? What if our management metaphors actually contrib...

Reducere. Draws on themes of the disability-rights movement to identify people with disabilities as members of a socially disadvantaged minority group rather...

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) is a film of extraordinary technical achievement and intense emotional impact, garnering acclaim from both critics and audie...

With the emphasis on architectural and urban design considerations of complex and interdependent relationships between arts, space and people, this...

This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development, arguing that arts and culture are fundam...

Reducere. Topsight-the overall understanding of the big picture-is hard to achieve in organizations. There's too much going on, too many moving pieces. But w...

DescriptionSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restric...

DescriptionEarly in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos fo...

Reducere. Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in ...

What are the differences between individuals with disabilities who flourish and those who never really adjust after a trauma? How do those born wit...

Reducere. Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driv...

Reducere. 20x14, Reflections on Studying Architecture Abroad: twenty suggestions (or paternal exhortations, if you will) for the fourteen weeks of a regular ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Beth a. Haller Ph. D.Towson University journalism professor Beth A. Haller's 20 years of research into disability and mass ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Julia BrownAuthor: Dr Mary MatherThis unique book has been written for those parenting children / young people with FASD (F...

Reducere. Hakka Kuen is a generic term for all the martial arts developed by the Chinese Hakka community, mainly in southern China.This book is intended as a...

Reducere. Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driv...

This book gives students focussed and practical advice on how to deal with stress in a 3 tiered approach: 1. Guidance on how to avoid getting in to...

DescriptionThis volume presents an international selection of invited contributions on policy and best practice in accessible tourism, reflecting c...

This hands-on book introduces students to the demands of university study in a clear and accessible way and helps them to understand what is expect...

DescriptionNow in its second edition, Rethinking Disability introduces new and experienced teachers to ethical framings of disability and strategie...

This book provides an overview of disability exceptions to copyright infringement and the international and human rights legal framework for disabi...

This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage...

This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage...

DescriptionIn the 21st century, disability rights have become a social justice issue that concerns all American citizens--access to safe, affordabl...

This is the first book to address the issue of ageing after a long life with disability. It breaks new ground through its particular life course pe...

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DescriptionProviding insight into current research, and comprehensive guidance on recent legislation and policy, this key text offers anyone workin...

Suitable for students of art history as well as those seeking an understanding of art and of the cultural and historical context in which it is mad...

Reducere. Approximately 2.5 million people in the United States--one percent of the population--have an intellectual disability (previously referred to as me...

DescriptionThe Diagnostic Manual - Intellectual Disability: A Clinical Guide for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in Persons with Intellectual Disabil...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Mary DunnNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 222 x 25Cover type: HardbackRe...

Now available in paperback, this is a highly illustrated and original survey of concrete architecture and its effects on culture.

This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicat...

A core curriculum of salient topics related to health issues for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities of all ages. Deisgned for...