The Social Model of Disability in India : Politics of Identity and Power

"This book presents various paradigms and debates on the diverse issues concerning disability in India from a sociological perspective. It studies disability in the context of its relationship with concepts such as culture/religion, media, literature, and gender to address the inherent failures in challenging prevalent stereotypical and oppressive ideologies. It traces the theological history of disability and studies the present-day universalized social notions of disablement. The volume challenges the predominant perception of disability being only a medical or biological concern and provides deeper insight into the impact of representation through an analysis of the discourse and criteria for 'normalcy' in films from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes the formation of perspectives through a study of representation of disability in print media, especially children's literature, comics, and graphic novels. The author also discusses the policies and provisions available in India for students with disabilities, especially women who have to also contend with gender inequality and gender-based discrimination. The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of disability studies, educational psychology, special education, sociology, gender studies, politics of education, and media ecology. It will also be useful for educationalists, NGOs, special educators, disability specialists, media and communication professionals, and counsellors"-- Provided by publisher This book studies disability in the context of its relationship with concepts such as culture/religion, media, literature, and gender to address the inherent failures in challenging prevalent stereotypical and oppressive ideologies. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Tables 7 Foreword 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgements 15 List of Abbreviations 16 Chapter 1 Sameness and Difference: Transcending the Gap 18 Chapter 2 Disability and Representation 30 Chapter 3 Disability, Religion and Culture 46 Chapter 4 From Dosti to Margarita with a Straw: Representation of Disability in Indian Cinema 67 Chapter 5 Disability, Children Literature and Other Narratives 87 Chapter 6 ‘Disability Communication’: Media Ecology and Disability 105 Chapter 7 Identities Embedded in our Bodies: Gendered Constructions at Work 118 Chapter 8 Accessibility to Education and Disability: Challenging the Ableist Structures 134 Chapter 9 ‘Our Identity, Our Voice’: The Evolving Face of Disability 157 References 174 Index 206 prejudice;,exclusion;,able,bodied;,phobia prejudice,exclusion,able bodied,phobia Pouvoirs de l'horreur Pourquoi l'abjection ? Pourquoi y a-t-il ce " quelque chose " qui n'est ni sujet ni objet, mais qui, sans cesse, revient, révulse, fascine ? Ce n'est pas de la névrose. On l'entrevoit dans la phobie, la psychose. Il s'agit d'une explosion que Freud a touchée mais peut-être aussi évitée, et que la psychanalyse devrait être de plus en plus pressée d'entendre. Car l'histoire et la société nous l'imposent. Dans l'horreur. Les rites, les religions, l'art ne feraient-ils rien d'autre que de conjurer l'abjection ? D'où l'étrange révélation de la littérature : Dostoïevski, Lautréamont, Proust, Artaud et, de façon très symptomatique, Céline. Le voici maintenant, cet habitant des frontières, sans désir ni lieu propres, errant, douleur et rire mélangés, rôdeur écœuré dans un monde immonde. C'est le sujet de l'abjection. Julia Kristeva Linguiste, sémiologue, psychanalyste, elle est professeur émérite de l'université Paris VII-Diderot. Elle a notamment publié Le Langage, cet inconnu (Seuil, 1981) et Pulsions du temps (Fayard, 2013). Pouvoirs de l'horreur Pourquoi l'abjection ? Pourquoi y a-t-il ce " quelque chose " qui n'est ni sujet, ni objet, mais qui, sans cesse, revient, révulse, repousse, fascine ? Pourquoi de l'abject ? Ce n'est pas de la névrose. On l'entrevoit dans la phobie, la psychose. Il s'agit d'une explosion que Freud a touchée mais peut-être aussi évitée, et que la psychanalyse, si elle veut aller plus loin que sa simple répétition, devrait être de plus en plus pressée d'entendre. Car l'histoire et la société nous l'imposent. Dans l'horreur. Les rites, les religions, l'art ne feraient-ils rien d'autre que de conjurer l'abjection ? D'où l'étrange révélation de la littérature : Dostoïevski, Lautréamont, Proust, Artaud et, de façon sans doute hyper symptomatique, Céline "Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others ... [Powers of Horror is] an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse. The sections on Céline, for example, are indispensable reading for those interested in this writer and place him within a context that is both illuminating and of general interest"--Paul de Man, p. [4] of cover. See pp. 203-219, "Juivre ou mourir", on the antisemitism in Célines pamphlets. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)