Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Block, Pamela (Editor), Kasnitz, Devva (Editor), Nishida, Akemi (Editor), Pollard, Nick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Anthropology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Health psychology.; Industrial psychology.; Health Psychology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology.

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 invisible diag...