Critical Theory and Disability - A Phenomenological Approach

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 assistance (direct payments) and disability-based discrimination. On this basis, wider sociological and ontological claims are made concerning the body, identity, otherness, and exclusion.>

About the author

Teodor Mladenov holds a PhD in Sociology ofDisability from King's College London. He has published articles in Disability & Society, Critical Social Policy and Alter - European Journal of DisabilityResearch. Teodor has worked for many years as a researcher for disabledpeople's organisations and international NGOs operating in Bulgaria.

Product details

• Authors: Teodor Mladenov
• Assisted by: Darrow Schecter (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781501322167
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-2216-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society; Critical Theory and Contempora; Critical Theory and Contemporary Society; Critical Theory and Contempora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education