Understanding Disability: Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches

✍ Scribed by Ranu Uniyal (editor), Fatima Rizvi (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Edition: 1st ed. 2023
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume brings together contributions on disability studies organized around two themes: literary and sociological aspects. The contributors include academics, disability activists, and researchers from within and outside the Indian periphery. While the book strengthens the disability discourse and contributes to building academic scholarship on this subject, it also promotes disability activism by giving space to both direct practitioners and persons with disabilities. The chapters discuss various analytical and literary aspects of the marginalization experienced by the disabled community and bring forth new and elaborate perspectives. It draws connections across multiple identities and includes personal narratives across nations, cultures and societies. It is an excellent research resource on disability studies in India for scholars and students in the area of humanities, education, law, sociology and social work, while at the same time also addressing the global context.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Part I Disability and Empirical Experiences
1 I Can Hear Her Breathing: Disabled Writers Writing Disability
References
2 Pilot Research Study: Utilizing the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol Online to Help Parents with the Stresses of Having a Special Needs Child
Overview Special Needs Children: Research of PTSD and Treatment
Parents of Special Needs Children
Status of Support
EMDR
Current Study: The Purposes of This Study
Method
Participants
Assessment Tools
EMDR Treatment Provision
Results
Discussion
Limitations and Questions for Further Study
Conclusion
References
3 Social Role Valorization Theory in India: An Idea with Consequences
What Is Social Role Valorization?
Historical Roots and Impact of SRV
Establishing the Foundation: SRV Teaching Across India
A Platform for SRV Leaders
SRV in Practice
Case Studies
Future Directions
Conclusion
References
4 Hold Your Breath: Promoting Health for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Introduction
Understanding the Phrase “Hold Your Breath”
Breath and Disability
Breath: Possibilities of Reducing the Impact
Breath: A Foundation of Healthy Body and Healthy Mind
BREATH: A Practical and Scientific Application
Prayer—An Activity for a Positive Impact
Chanting—The Joy That Brings a Positive Change
Breathing Exercises—A Process with an Impact on the Mind
The Double Breathing—The Foundation of Mental Health
The Impact of Double Breathing
Watching the Breath—A Science, Not a Belief
Scientific Observations
References
Part II Disability in Literature, Film and Theatre
5 The Mad Mother in the 1BHK—Hallowing and Harrowing Positions in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom
Bibliography
6 (No) Shared Towers: Performing the Bipolar in Em and the Big Hoom
Life and Theatre: The World Is a Messy Stage
Madness and Culture: Who’s Stage Is It Anyway?
Language and Mental Illness: No Escape from the Madd(en)ing Crowd
Conclusion
Bibliography
7 Disability, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Bengali Fiction
Introduction
Disability and Embodiment
Disability and Emasculation
Disability and Violence
Disability, Sexuality, and Subjectivity
Disability and Ethnicity
Corporeal and Spectral Bodies
Disability and Postcolonial Difference
References
8 Stigmatizing the Other: Treatment of Disability in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”
Introduction
The Discredited and the Discreditable Subject
Disability: A Performance of Discourse
Stigma: Actual Social Identity Versus Virtual Social Identity
Stigma and the Dilemma of Difference
Stigma and the Unstable Body
Exclusionary Cultural Paradigm and Isolation of the Stigmatized
Abled and Disabled (Perspectives) Not Types
Conclusion
References
9 Notions of Normalcy and Changing Definitions: Defeating Stereotypes and Creating Acceptance of Disability
Introduction
Objectives
Conclusion
Bibliography
10 Normalizing Disability: Discourses of the Decolonized Body
References
11 Disabled Identities and the Linguistic World: Exploring Dysfunctionalities in Leela Gour Broome’s Flute in the Forest
Bibliography
12 From Narrative Prosthesis to Disability Counternarrative: Reading Cognitive Difference in Aparna Sen’s 15 Park Avenue
Introduction
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Notes
Appendix 2: Filmography
 Works Cited
13 Changing Social Perspectives on Disability in Hindi Films Dosti and Barfi
Introduction
Literature, Film, and Society
Social Exclusionary Practices Towards Disability
Indian Perspective on Disability
Disability and Social Model
Disability in Literature and Film
Dosti (1964)
Barfi (2012)
Conclusion
References
14 The Societal Gaze and Stigma: A Study of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara
References
15 Disability and Gender Interface in Dattani’s Tara
Notes
Bibliography
Part III Dealing with Disability
16 People of Determination—Making Achievements, Overcoming Challenges
Disability Statistics Matter
Not Disabled, Just Differently Abled
Ancient India and Disability—Constructing Disabilities Through Narratives of Sacred Texts and Mythologies
Kingdoms of Ancient and Medieval India and Their Dealings with Disability
Perspective of the Arab World on Disability
‘The Determined Ones’—UAE and People of Determination
National Policy for Empowering People with Special Needs
The Six Pillars of the National Policy
The People of Determination Retreat
Eight Tenets of the Retreat
Special Olympics World Game
Caring for People of Determination During COVID-19
Bibliography
17 Disability and Institutional Failure: A Study of Good Kings, Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum
Conclusion
Bibliography
18 Education and Labour Market for Persons with Disabilities in India
Introduction
Labour Market Linkages and Economics of Education
Disability and Discrimination: Education and Labour Market
PWDs in India and Labour Market
Discrimination in the Labour Market for PWDs: Emerging Concerns
Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes for PWDs in India
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
19 Honk Honk: Women, You Drive Crazy!
Bibliography
20 Contesting Representation, Writing Self: A Critical Study of Disabled Life Narratives in A Bumblebee’s Balcony and One Little Finger
Self-representations Versus Societal Representations
Urban and Rural, East and West in Representations of Disability
Writing Self
Conclusion
Bibliography
21 Shaping the Disability Discourse: From Theoretical Groundwork to Lived Experiences
Bibliography