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Disability, Conflict, and Environmental Conditions: Introduction
It is now accepted that persons with disabilities suffer disproportionate harms in disaster and displacement contexts, most particularly when persons...
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Disability and Employment Research: Mind the Gap
This chapter examines the gap in how we study disability employment by examining 130 studies from 2000 to 2022 on employers’ perceptions of employees...
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Disability, Conflict, and Environmental Conditions: Introduction
It is now accepted that persons with disabilities suffer disproportionate harms in disaster and displacement contexts, most particularly when persons...
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Models of Disability and Judicial Interpretation in India
How disability is modeled or understood is determinative in the evolution of both Disability Studies and Disability Politics. By focusing on India,...
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Rethinking Power and the Complexities Between Critical Disability Studies and Decoloniality in Higher Education
This chapter explores the intersecting facets of people with disabilities and open distance learning. It examines how the increased decolonization of...
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Transnational History of Disability: Reflections
Transnational history is a research perspective that has been widely legitimized and popularized over the past decade, but few disability historians...
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Disability-Driven Innovation: The True Future of Work
Disability as a driver of innovation is an underexplored topic. However, it is taking on increased relevance following the COVID-19 pandemic and as...
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Changing Social Perspectives on Disability in Hindi Films Dosti and Barfi
Literature explores human experience and embeds human values. Literature also reflects contemporary social problems and challenges. Disabled people...
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Transhumanism and Disability
This paper examines the transhumanist approach to disability focusing on its defining feature: human enhancement. The study of what underlies the...
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Disability History of Modern East Asia: An Overview
A disability-based approach to history (disability history) gives us perspectives on historical ideas of disability in modern East Asian societies....
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Disability, Social Inequalities, and Intersectionality in India
Disability is a familiar yet contested terrain in society today. It is a term that is often employed using common sense to explain a variety of...
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Disability Sport in Lithuania
The chapter provides an overview of the disability sport system and sport participation by people with disabilities in Lithuania. Lithuania laws...
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Stuttering and social change: Moving Towards a Critical Disability Studies Approach in South Africa
The past few decades have seen significant growth in the field of disability studies. Through the application of a disability studies framework,...
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The African Disability Protocol: Toward a Social and Human Rights Approach to Disability in the African Human Rights System
The adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa marked a...
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Discrimination in Kosovo Under Domestic and International Legislation
The negative and harmful impact that discrimination causes in a human society is that through discrimination human rights and freedoms are violated,...
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UK Social Model of Disability and the Quest for Emancipation
The route to disabled people’s emancipation is complex and requires a critique of how the organization of the social world contributes to disabled...
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Do we all perceive experiences of age discrimination in the same way? Cross-cultural differences in perceived age discrimination and its association with life satisfaction
Age discrimination is pervasive in most societies and bears far-reaching consequences for individuals’ psychological well-being. Despite that,...
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Gender, Disability, and Tourism in Africa Intersectional Perspectives
This book explores the intersection of gender and disability in the context of tourism. In part, the book foregrounds feminist theorising of...
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Decolonizing Disability: Indigenous Māori Perspectives of Disability Research in the Modern Era
Qualitative research methods show promise in building shared understanding of Indigenous experiences of disability and have the potential to address...
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Disability Sport in Spain
Sport in Spain, since the restoration of democracy, has been configured as a structuring element in the social, educational and cultural spheres, and...