Occupying disability : critical approaches to community, justice, and decolonizing disability / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, editors.
"This book explores the concept of 'occupation' in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisibl...
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Table of Contents:
- Occupying disability : an introduction / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard
- Krips, cops and occupy : reflections from Oscar Grant Plaza / Sunaura Taylor, Marg Hall, Jessica Lehman, Rachel Liebert, Akemi Nishida, and Jean Steward
- Minamata : disability and the sea of sorrow / Mami Aoyama
- Movements at war? disability and anti-occupation activism in Israel / Liat Ben-Moshe
- Landings : decolonizing disability,indigeneity and poetic methods / Petra Kuppers
- Occupying autism : rhetoric, involuntarity, and the meaning of autistic lives / Melanie Yergeau
- Scenes and encounters, bodies and abilities : devising performance with Cyrff Ystwyth / Margaret Ames
- Artistic therapeutic treatment, colonialism & spectacle : a Brazilian tale / Marta Peres, Francine Albeiro de Camargo, Jose Octavio Pompeu e Silva, and Pamela Block
- A situational analysis of persons with disabilities in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago : education and employment policy imperatives / Annicia Gayle-Geddes
- Neoliberal academia and a critique of disability studies / Akemi Nishida
- Soul searching occupations : critical reflections on occupational therapy's commitment to social justice, disability rights, and participation / Mansha Mirza, Susan Magasi, and Joy Hammel
- Refusing to go away : the Ida Benderson Seniors Action Group / Denise M. Nepveux
- Why bother talking? on having cerebral palsy and speech impairment : preserving and promoting oral communication through occupational community and communities practice / Rick Stoddart and David Turnbull
- Occupying seats, occupying space, occupying time : deaf young adults in vocational training centers in Bangalore, India / Michele Friedner
- My world, my experience with occupy Wall Street and how we can go further / Nick Dupree
- Beyond policy - a real life journey of engagement and involvement / Stephanie de la Haye
- Self advocacy and self determination for youth with disability and their parents during school transition planning / Eva L. Rodriguez
- Should robots be personal assistants? / Katherine D. Seelman
- Crab and yoghurt / Tobias Hecht
- Occupying disability studies in Brazil / Anahi Guedes de Mello, Pamela Block, and Adriano Henrique Nuerberg
- Black & blue : policing disability & poverty beyond occupy / Leroy F. Moore Jr., Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, and Emmitt H. Thrower
- Blindness and occupation : personal observations and reflections / Rikki Chaplin
- Surviving Stevenage / Roy Birch, Ann Copeland, Geoff Clarke, Neil Hopkins, Rosie Berry, Richard J.N. Copeland, STL, Bruce James, CYNTH, Paul Evans, Darren Messenger, Lucia Birch, and Andrew H. Smith
- If disability is a dance, who is the choreographer? a conversation about life occupations, art, movement / Neil Marcus, Devva Kasnitz, and Pamela Block
- Critical approaches to community, justice and decolonizing disability : editors' summary / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard
- Science (fiction), hope and love : conclusions / Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, and Nick Pollard.