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Author:   Anita Ghai
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Weight:   0.780kg
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9789352807079

ISBN 10:   9352807073
Pages:   492
Publication Date:   17 September 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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This book has brought together writers on disability whose activism and theorizing are integral to each other as they capture the multiplicity of arenas in which activists and scholars are engaging. A collection of powerful statements on disability with great insights, it sets before us a line of serious enquiry. It is a book sorely needed and inspiring and will be a rare resource for every disability studies classroom and on the reading list of disability organizations and activists. -- Asha Hans, * Co-Chair, Pakistan India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy * Disability in South Asia is an essential text that captures a crucial moment in time of the development of critical disability studies-a time when the dominance of Western European and North American disability theory is contested and replaced instead with new forms of critical thinking and activism. -- Professor Dan Goodley, * iHuman, University of Sheffield * Anita Ghai has orchestrated a collection that will enrich disability studies scholarship everywhere, bringing forward a wonderful variety of work from, and about, South Asia. This collection represents new engagements with various impairment experiences while theorizing powerful colonial systems of knowing. A must-read Disability in South Asia revolutionizes the connections between disability studies in the Global South and in the Global North by enacting a vital promise to nurture scholars and activists in a re-examination of the meaning of disability. Readers of Disability in South Asia are invited to carry forward this promise by joining the developing need to question the peripheral existence of those living with disability and engaged in disability studies. -- Tanya Titchkosky, * Professor of Disability Studies, Department of Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada; author of Disability, Self, and Society; Reading and Writing Disability * I have known Anita Ghai for over two decades now. She is one of the most fiery and outspoken advocates we have in the Indian disability movement. She has dedicated her life to creating a body of knowledge that speaks of her commitment to the cause of disability in general, and women and girls with disabilities in particular. This is an exemplary contribution in a scenario where scholarship on disability issues is just not there. Her latest work, Disability in South Asia: Knowledge and Experience, is another such effort in this direction. I am confident that this publication will generate a discussion and trigger actions that will pave the way for better and dignified lives for people with disabilities not just in India but the whole of the South Asian region. -- Javed Abidi, * Chairperson, Disabled People's International (India) (DPII) and National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) Asia Pacific * This collection of essays fills the need for a comprehensive book on disability studies in South Asia. Covering a range of topics from the history of disability activism to philosophical and cultural issues in relationship to the disabled body and mind, the book has a strong through-line of calling for greater attention to disability and promoting a biopolitical approach to a previously disregarded group of people who make up a fifth of the population. -- Lennard J. Davis, * Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago *

Author Information

Anita Ghai joined as a professor in School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, in 2015. Before this, Anita has been an associate professor in Department of Psychology in Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi. Her interest is in disability studies and issues of sexuality, psychology and gender. As a former fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum Library, Teen Murti Bhavan, Anita has researched on issues of care of disabled women recipients, that is, their daughters and providers of care, that is, the mothers with leanings towards feminist and disability theory. Anita has been the former President of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies. She has authored Re-thinking Disability in India, Routledge, New Delhi (2015) and (Dis)Embodied Form: Issues of Disabled Women (2003), and coauthored The Mentally Handicapped: Prediction of the Work Performance with Anima Sen.

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