Interrogating disability in India : theory and practice / Nandini Ghosh, editor.

Interrogating disability in India : theory and practice /

This book discusses the multifaceted concept of disability in the context of India. Through analyses of theoretical propositions of disability in South Asia and empirical explorations of the lives of persons with disabilities in India, this book not only brings to the forefront a hitherto unexplored...

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Other Authors: Ghosh, Nandini
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Springer India, 2016.
Series:Dynamics of Asian development.
Subjects:
Disability studies > India.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Interrogating Disability Issues in India
  • Chapter 2. Of Medical, Moral and Social Dilemmas: Theorizing disability for the South Asian context
  • Chapter 3. Diversity at Workplace and in Education
  • Chapter 4. Are Rights the right solution? Gaps between legal rights and Everyday access to citizenship
  • Chapter 5. Lakshmi Radhakrishnan: The Notion of Personhood: Disability, Guardianship and Law in India
  • Chapter 6. Power and Leveraging in a Disability Context
  • Chapter 7. Living with disabilities: Experiences of livelihood pursuits of young persons with disabilities
  • Chapter 8. Living Arrangement and Capability Deprivation of the Disabled In India
  • Chapter 9. Negotiating Femininity: Lived Experiences of Women with Locomotor Disabilities in Bengal
  • Chapter 10. Jagdish Chander: Disability Rights Movement in India: Emerging Trends, Issues and Methods of Advocacy
  • Chapter 11. Nandini Ghosh: Disabled People Organisations: Assertions and Angsts.

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