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Disability in South Asia : knowledge and experience / edited by Anita Ghai. - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword by - Shyam Menon
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Epistemological and Academic Concerns of Disability in the Global South - Anita Ghai
Part 1: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Disability Studies
Disability Rights Law and Disability Rights Movement in India: Contesting Views - Jagdish Chander
Emergence of Disability Rights Movement in India: From Charity to Self-Advocacy - Meenu Bhambani
Refocusing and the Paradigm Shift: From Disability to Studies in Ableism - Fiona Kumari Campbell
Disability within Rawlsian Framework of Justice: Challenging the Injustice Rationale - Deepa Pallaniappan and Valerian Rodrigues
Disability Studies as Resistance: The Politics of Estrangement - Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Part 2: Disability, Body, Care and Sexuality
Experiencing the Body: Femininity, Sexuality and Disabled Women in India - Nandini Ghosh
Emergence of Epistemological Questions of Crip Queer across Shifting Geo/Bio-political Terrain - Janet Price and Niluka Gunawardena

Ethics and Practice of Care: A Focus on Disability - Upali Chakravarti
Part 3: Knowing the Self and Writing Life
Privilege or Marginalisation: Narrative of a Disability Rights Activist - Nidhi Goyal
Journey So Far: My Life with an Impairment - Sameer Chaturvedi
Narratives of Growing with A-typicality - Asha Singh
Life-writing and Disabled Self in the Works of Oliver W. Sacks - Sandeep R Singh
Blind Culture and Cosmologies: Notes from Ved Mehta's Continent of India - Hemchandran Karah
Part 4: Disability in Literature and Culture
Disability across Cultures - Shubhangi Vaidya
Corporeality and Cultural Difference - Shilpaa Anand
Interrogating Normalcy, Decolonising Disability: Corporeal Difference in the Post-colonial Indian English Novel - Someshwar Sati
Jataka Katha Goes On: Materiality as Metaphor - Santosh Kumar
Part 5: Disability, Family Epistemologies and Resistance to Shame within the Indian Context
Disability, Family Epistemologies and Resistance to Shame within the Indian Context - Shridevi Rao
Inclusive Education in India: Concept, Practice and the Way Forward - Ankur Madan
The Emancipatory Potential of a Structural Understanding of Disability: A Response to Linda Ware - Suchaita Tenneti
Disability at Work? Media Representations, CSR and Diversity - Arun Kumar and Nivedita Kothiyal
Part 6: Legal Discourses of Disability in India
A Disability Studies Reading of the Law for Persons with Disabilities in India - Amita Dhanda
Reimagining Kinship in Disability-Specific Domesticity: Legal Understanding of Care and Companionship - Rukmini Sen
Part 7: Constructing Disability as Diversity
Disability as Diversity: An Alternative Perspective - Shanti Auluck
Unification of Disability in Diversity: A Different Voice - Anita Ghai
Index

ISBN: 9789352807079 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2018038628

Subjects--Topical Terms:
People with disabilities--South Asia.
Sociology of disability--South Asia.
Disabilities--South Asia.

LC Class. No.: HV1559.S63 / D57 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 305.908 095 4 GHA