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    Disability and Social Theory

    New Developments and Directions

    Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes, Lennard Davis (2012)

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    Conclusion: Disability and Social Theory

    Why theory? It is a question the Greeks would probably not have asked. Theoria for our classical cousins was about ‘contemplation’, reflecting on observation and experience, in other words, ways of making sense o...

    Bill Hughes, Dan Goodley, Lennard Davis in Disability and Social Theory (2012)

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    Civilising Modernity and the Ontological Invalidation of Disabled People

    Elimination and/or correction have been the primary social response to disabled people in modernity. The primary form of experience (of disability), during the same period, has been one of invalidation. Invali...

    Bill Hughes in Disability and Social Theory (2012)

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    Introducing Disability and Social Theory

    Theorising disability lies at the heart of many recent social scientific engagements with the body, subjectivity, culture and society. Disability studies have developed across, through and with disciplines of ...

    Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes, Lennard Davis in Disability and Social Theory (2012)