Critical theory and disability : a phenomenological approach / Teodor Mladenov.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Key ideas; Methodological considerations; The Bulgarian context; Personal reflections; Notes; Chapter 2 The body; Body, realism, and disability studies; The British social model of disability; Updating the social model; Rejecting the social model; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 3 Disability assessment; Disability assessment in Bulgaria; Linking medicalization and productivism; Transformations of modernity and attempts at changing the status quo; Disability assessment statement as a boundary object.

Three social worldsThe administrative and the sociopolitical: Coordination, standardization, and naturalization; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 4 Personal assistance; The European Center for Excellence in Personal Assistance project; From autonomy to interdependence; Putting the shift in context; Self-driven customers?; Choice and control revisited; Collective action for legislative change; Collective action after legislative change; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 5 Discrimination; A phenomenological approach to space and time; Objectification; Space; Time; Nonhuman entities.

Concluding remarksNotes; Chapter 6 Media representations of inaccessibility; Defamiliarization and uncanniness; Encounters with stairs; Bodies and human activity; Human activity and self-definition; Illuminating the strangeness of the familiar; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 7 Sexuality; "I, my impairment and sex"; "We talk about sex"; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 8 The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; The Convention; The juridical dimension of interpretation; The extra-juridical dimension of interpretation; Concluding remarks; Notes; Chapter 9 Conclusions.

Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social practices that undermine disabled people's well being, drawing on cases from contemporary Bulgaria. It includes in-depth examination of key mechanisms such as disability assessment, personal a.

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