Main description:

Disability in South Asia: Knowledge & Experience presents a comprehensive approach to various aspects of disability in South Asia. A critical work on disability studies, this book explores the full complexity of disability in its multi-layered, interactional dynamics. The book imparts understanding of the social, political and cultural construction of disability as opposed to the traditional perception of disability in terms of medical condition, biological trait, rehabilitation and special education. It focuses on foregrounding disability across various areas including education, law and sociology, critically exploring the interaction of gender and disability, and challenging the separation between theory and practice as well as academia and activism. The book shows how the inclusion of a disability perspective enriches scholarship by contributing to the understanding of social marginalization, oppression and the perception of difference. It highlights the lived experiences of people with disabilities to help readers develop a nuanced comprehension of disability.

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