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Dan Goodley has written a book that injects new energy into Disability Studies. He breaches disciplinary walls embracing, inter alia, sociology, critical psychology, cultural studies, inclusive education and psychoanalysis. He makes lucid practical and theoretical connections with queer, feminist, class and postcolonial standpoints that prefigure his concluding case for a version of Disability Studies that is critical and transformative. The book is driven by an eclectic pulse and a dynamic curiosity that cuts through orthodoxy. It takes the infant discipline to places it rarely ventures, into the territories of the Empire, the hybrid and the cyborg, into the emerging sites where new forms of disability activism are developing, into theories that open up new possibilities for research. A special commendation must go to the scholarly scope of the text. Professor Goodley plunders literature far and wide to produce the first introduction to Disability Studies that is both global and cosmopolitan Bill Hughes Dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Students who are serious about improving the lives of disabled people will be richly rewarded by Goodley's ground-breaking book and challenged to engage with the content through regular questions and exercises requiring their active engagement with both text and wider literature. By critically examining diverse theories and perspectives Goodley's book meets head-on areas often glossed in the literature and in doing so provides a sophisticated transdisciplinary synthesis of contemporary critical disability theories and perspectives. Riveting to read, brimming with new ideas and challenging to students, this book will take pride of place on many a disability studies student bookshelf Paul Ramcharan Co-ordinator of Research and Public Policy at the Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University, Melbourne <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Dr. Goodley has accomplished what many in disability studies in education have hoped to see-a textbook that is a broad overview of the field. Disability Studies provides what undergraduate and graduate students need in an introductory text. The structure of the text draws in the reader, maintains engagement with the text, and gives student and instructor numerous resources such as thinking points, student activities, seminar ideas, and discussion questions. Dr. Goodley's use of online resources makes the text contemporary and interactive. Dr. Goodley has attended to content as well as structure. He makes connections between chapters by referring the reader to previous chapters with questions for reflection and points of interest. The content covered is expansive and thorough. I intend to use this exceptional book in my doctoral level disability studies seminar Susan L. Gabel National College of Education at National-Louis University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Goodley's research is both sweeping and comprehensive. The book shows the depth of Disability Studies informing concerns while providing the reader with a substantive discussion of differences across discursive communities in the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, the US, and Canada. In taking up this comparative methodology, Goodley explains how the field analyzes the politics of human variation from a variety of standpoints, social goals, and disciplinary emphases. It breaks up a common misunderstanding that Disability Studies issues from a single orthodoxy rather than a multiplicity of approaches that complement as well as deepen each other David Mitchell Temple University

Dan Goodley has written a book that injects new energy into Disability Studies. He breaches disciplinary walls embracing, inter alia, sociology, critical psychology, cultural studies, inclusive education and psychoanalysis. He makes lucid practical and theoretical connections with queer, feminist, class and postcolonial standpoints that prefigure his concluding case for a version of Disability Studies that is critical and transformative. The book is driven by an eclectic pulse and a dynamic curiosity that cuts through orthodoxy. It takes the infant discipline to places it rarely ventures, into the territories of the Empire, the hybrid and the cyborg, into the emerging sites where new forms of disability activism are developing, into theories that open up new possibilities for research. A special commendation must go to the scholarly scope of the text. Professor Goodley plunders literature far and wide to produce the first introduction to Disability Studies that is both global and cosmopolitan Bill Hughes Dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Students who are serious about improving the lives of disabled people will be richly rewarded by Goodley's ground-breaking book and challenged to engage with the content through regular questions and exercises requiring their active engagement with both text and wider literature. By critically examining diverse theories and perspectives Goodley's book meets head-on areas often glossed in the literature and in doing so provides a sophisticated transdisciplinary synthesis of contemporary critical disability theories and perspectives. Riveting to read, brimming with new ideas and challenging to students, this book will take pride of place on many a disability studies student bookshelf Paul Ramcharan Co-ordinator of Research and Public Policy at the Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University, Melbourne <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Dr. Goodley has accomplished what many in disability studies in education have hoped to see-a textbook that is a broad overview of the field. Disability Studies provides what undergraduate and graduate students need in an introductory text. The structure of the text draws in the reader, maintains engagement with the text, and gives student and instructor numerous resources such as thinking points, student activities, seminar ideas, and discussion questions. Dr. Goodley's use of online resources makes the text contemporary and interactive. Dr. Goodley has attended to content as well as structure. He makes connections between chapters by referring the reader to previous chapters with questions for reflection and points of interest. The content covered is expansive and thorough. I intend to use this exceptional book in my doctoral level disability studies seminar Susan L. Gabel National College of Education at National-Louis University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Goodley's research is both sweeping and comprehensive. The book shows the depth of Disability Studies informing concerns while providing the reader with a substantive discussion of differences across discursive communities in the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, the US, and Canada. In taking up this comparative methodology, Goodley explains how the field analyzes the politics of human variation from a variety of standpoints, social goals, and disciplinary emphases. It breaks up a common misunderstanding that Disability Studies issues from a single orthodoxy rather than a multiplicity of approaches that complement as well as deepen each other David Mitchell Temple University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Dan Goodley's new book is undoubtedly a very welcome addition to the resources of disability studies in the UK...he presents an interdisciplinary approach to the question of disability that both offers an important critique of existing perspectives and successfully moves towards new and exciting territory...it will certainly push disability studies in the direction of what makes all the difference -- critical disability studies, which leaves behind surface explanations and provides a depth of analysis that is both deconstructive and transformative. My further hope is that intrigued readers will go on to explore Goodley's other rich work Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px />

Dan Goodley has written a book that injects new energy into Disability Studies. He breaches disciplinary walls embracing, inter alia, sociology, critical psychology, cultural studies, inclusive education and psychoanalysis. He makes lucid practical and theoretical connections with queer, feminist, class and postcolonial standpoints that prefigure his concluding case for a version of Disability Studies that is critical and transformative. The book is driven by an eclectic pulse and a dynamic curiosity that cuts through orthodoxy. It takes the infant discipline to places it rarely ventures, into the territories of the Empire, the hybrid and the cyborg, into the emerging sites where new forms of disability activism are developing, into theories that open up new possibilities for research. A special commendation must go to the scholarly scope of the text. Professor Goodley plunders literature far and wide to produce the first introduction to Disability studies that is both global and cosmopolitan Bill Hughes Dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Students who are serious about improving the lives of disabled people will be richly rewarded by Goodley's ground-breaking book and challenged to engage with the content through regular questions and exercises requiring their active engagement with both text and wider literature. By critically examining diverse theories and perspectives Goodley's book meets head-on areas often glossed in the literature and in doing so provides a sophisticated transdisciplinary synthesis of contemporary critical disability theories and perspectives. Riveting to read, brimming with new ideas and challenging to students, this book will take pride of place on many a disability studies student bookshelf Paul Ramcharan Co-ordinator of Research and Public Policy at the Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University, Melbourne <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Dr. Goodley has accomplished what many in disability studies in education have hoped to see-a textbook that is a broad overview of the field. Introducing Disability Studies provides what undergraduate and graduate students need in an introductory text. The structure of the text draws in the reader, maintains engagement with the text, and gives student and instructor numerous resources such as thinking points, student activities, seminar ideas, and discussion questions. Dr. Goodley's use of online resources makes the text contemporary and interactive. Dr. Goodley has attended to content as well as structure. He makes connections between chapters by referring the reader to previous chapters with questions for reflection and points of interest. The content covered is expansive and thorough. I intend to use this exceptional book in my doctoral level disability studies seminar Susan L. Gabel National College of Education at National-Louis University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Goodley's research is both sweeping and comprehensive. The book shows the depth of Disability Studies informing concerns while providing the reader with a substantive discussion of differences across discursive communities in the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, the US, and Canada. In taking up this comparative methodology, Goodley explains how the field analyzes the politics of human variation from a variety of standpoints, social goals, and disciplinary emphases. It breaks up a common misunderstanding that Disability Studies issues from a single orthodoxy rather than a multiplicity of approaches that complement as well as deepen each other David Mitchell Temple University

Dan Goodley has written a book that injects new energy into Disability Studies. He breaches disciplinary walls embracing, inter alia, sociology, critical psychology, cultural studies, inclusive education and psychoanalysis. He makes lucid practical and theoretical connections with queer, feminist, class and postcolonial standpoints that prefigure his concluding case for a version of Disability Studies that is critical and transformative. The book is driven by an eclectic pulse and a dynamic curiosity that cuts through orthodoxy. It takes the infant discipline to places it rarely ventures, into the territories of the Empire, the hybrid and the cyborg, into the emerging sites where new forms of disability activism are developing, into theories that open up new possibilities for research. A special commendation must go to the scholarly scope of the text. Professor Goodley plunders literature far and wide to produce the first introduction to Disability Studies that is both global and cosmopolitan Bill Hughes Dean of the School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Students who are serious about improving the lives of disabled people will be richly rewarded by Goodley's ground-breaking book and challenged to engage with the content through regular questions and exercises requiring their active engagement with both text and wider literature. By critically examining diverse theories and perspectives Goodley's book meets head-on areas often glossed in the literature and in doing so provides a sophisticated transdisciplinary synthesis of contemporary critical disability theories and perspectives. Riveting to read, brimming with new ideas and challenging to students, this book will take pride of place on many a disability studies student bookshelf Paul Ramcharan Co-ordinator of Research and Public Policy at the Australian Centre for Human Rights Education at RMIT University, Melbourne <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Dr. Goodley has accomplished what many in disability studies in education have hoped to see-a textbook that is a broad overview of the field. Disability Studies provides what undergraduate and graduate students need in an introductory text. The structure of the text draws in the reader, maintains engagement with the text, and gives student and instructor numerous resources such as thinking points, student activities, seminar ideas, and discussion questions. Dr. Goodley's use of online resources makes the text contemporary and interactive. Dr. Goodley has attended to content as well as structure. He makes connections between chapters by referring the reader to previous chapters with questions for reflection and points of interest. The content covered is expansive and thorough. I intend to use this exceptional book in my doctoral level disability studies seminar Susan L. Gabel National College of Education at National-Louis University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Goodley's research is both sweeping and comprehensive. The book shows the depth of Disability Studies informing concerns while providing the reader with a substantive discussion of differences across discursive communities in the UK, Australia, Scandinavia, the US, and Canada. In taking up this comparative methodology, Goodley explains how the field analyzes the politics of human variation from a variety of standpoints, social goals, and disciplinary emphases. It breaks up a common misunderstanding that Disability Studies issues from a single orthodoxy rather than a multiplicity of approaches that complement as well as deepen each other David Mitchell Temple University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Dan Goodley's new book is undoubtedly a very welcome addition to the resources of disability studies in the UK...he presents an interdisciplinary approach to the question of disability that both offers an important critique of existing perspectives and successfully moves towards new and exciting territory...it will certainly push disability studies in the direction of what makes all the difference -- critical disability studies, which leaves behind surface explanations and provides a depth of analysis that is both deconstructive and transformative. My further hope is that intrigued readers will go on to explore Goodley's other rich work Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Goodley's introduction of the field of disability studies thoroughly lives up to the text's subtitle - this is an interdisciplinary foray of exceptional breadth...In this book, no orthodoxy remains unquestioned, except the one that insists that we must keep questioning. Dan Goodley's Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction aims to demonstrate his understanding of disability as so complex, so variable, so contigent, so situated... (p.120) that it cannot be reduced to any singular definition identity, model, or research project or political program. This is why Goodley's book is an excellent introduction to disability studies and is extremely useful to anyone who teaches disability studies or researches in the field Canadian Review of Sociology <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Disability Studies offers a wide and varied overview of the field and moves towards extending analysis in new directions. While early chapters may be a review for seasoned scholars, they are useful for those who may be new to the field, and later chapters offer something useful for everyone... Disability Studies may be especially useful in classrooms...Chapters are logically sequenced and are of appropriate length for classroom use. Key terms are well defined throughout the book, which also suits the work well for the classroom. Complicated concepts such as neoliberalism, poststructualism and biopower are also carefully explained for students and other audiences, with helpful suggestions for follow-up reading. Each chapter also ends with suggestions for further reading with short but useful summaries. The extensive bibliography is a valuable resource for anyone interested in disability Disability Studies Quarterly <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction does not disappoint. It is a superb book. Goodley has, again, given us an indispensible resource that continues pushing and extending our thinking...The book examines a breath taking range of themes, ideas, and concepts...However, Goodley does not simply engage with contemporary themes, ideas, or concepts simply to be fashionable or chic. His analysis is informed, responsible, and critical. He too draws on many 'classic texts' and models to situate his insightful analysis of disability, impairment and disablism. In so doing, not only does he locate his arguments in a historical content, but Goodley also gently reminds us of the dangers and limits of sociological and psychological amnesia. That is, in the search for useful and novel ideas, we should not ignore past scholarship and periodically reinvent the wheel Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px />

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Dan Goodley is Professor of Disability Studies and Education at the University of Sheffield and co-director of iHuman: an interdisciplinary institute for the study of the human. Previously he has worked at the University of Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published numerous books and articles associated with critical disability studies including Self-advocacy in the Lives of People with learning disabilities (Open University Press, 2000), Disability Studies (Routledge, 2016, second edition), Disability Studies (Sage, 2014) and Disability and Other Human Questions (Emerald, 2020). He is currently the principal investigator on a major six year pan-national programme of disability, health and science research, funded by a Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award entitled Disability Matters (2023 - 2029). He is an avid fan of Nottingham Forest football club, cake, sewing and Sleaford Mods (possibly in that order). 

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