Many critical analyses of disability address important ‘macro’ concerns but are often far removed from an interactional and micro-level focus. Written by leading scholars in the field and containing a range of theoretical and empirical contributions from around the world this book focuses on the taken-for-granted mundane human activities at the heart of how social life is reproduced and how this impacts on the lives of those with a disability family members and other allies. It departs from earlier accounts by making sense of how disability is lived mobilised and enacted in everyday lives. Although broad in focus and navigating diverse social contexts chapters are united by a concern with foregrounding micro mundane moments for making sense of powerful discourses practices affects relations and world-making for disabled people and their allies. Using different examples – including learning disabilities cerebral palsy dementia polio and Parkinson’s disease – contributions move beyond a simplified narrow classification of disability which creates rigid categories of existence and denies bodily variation. Disability Normalcy and the Everyday should be considered essential reading for disability studies students and academics as well as professionals involved in health and social care. With contributions located within new and familiar debates around embodiment stigma gender identity inequality care ethics choice materiality youth and representation this book will be of interest to academics from different disciplinary backgrounds including sociology anthropology humanities public health allied health professions science and technology studies social work and social policy. |Disability Normalcy and the Everyday | Health & Social Care
