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A public inconvenience: better toilets for inclusive travel.
Publication Type:Academic Journal
Source(s):Disability & Society. Aug2022, Vol. 37 Issue 7, p1146-1172. 27p.
Abstract:This coproduced study drew on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to inform a Human Rights-based design. Using photographic images and reflective diaries, twelve participant co-researchers investigated the quality o...
Access to public transportation for people with disabilities in Chile: a case study regarding the experience of drivers.
Publication Type:Academic Journal
Source(s):Disability & Society. Jul2022, Vol. 37 Issue 6, p1038-1053. 16p.
Abstract:This study explored access to transportation for people with disabilities based on the accounts of public transportation drivers in the Atacama region of Northern Chile. The study is based on the naturalistic paradigm and uses the theory based on the s...
Rolling out the "krip hop army": depictions of disabled solidarity and resistance in Kounterclockwise's Whip.
Publication Type:Academic Journal
Source(s):Disability & Society. Feb2022, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p320-337. 18p.
- Authors:
- Skinner, Anthea
Abstract:People with disabilities working together to overcome oppression is a common theme in depictions of disabled people, featuring in works including the films Freaks and X-Men and the song Spasticus Autisticus. Indeed, collaboration between people with di...
Negotiating embodied knowledge in the transition to adulthood: a social model of human rights.
Publication Type:Academic Journal
Source(s):Disability & Society. Feb2022, Vol. 37 Issue 2, p163-182. 20p.
- Authors:
- Bekken, Wenche
Abstract:This article discusses conditions of how the rights to participation of three young adults with disabilities are not fully used early in the transition to adulthood. Their stories, collected through life mode interviews, serve as examples of 'underused...
'A world without Down's syndrome' – an evaluation of foetal diagnosis in light of the ethos of medicine.
Publication Type:Academic Journal
Source(s):Disability & Society; Jun2022, Vol. 37 Issue 5, p809-826, 18p
- Authors:
- Stefánsdóttir, Ástríður
Abstract:Copyright of Disability & Society is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or emai...
Right to work or refusal to work: Disability rights at a crossroads.
Publication Type:Academic Journal
Source(s):Disability & Society. Oct 2021, Vol. 36 Issue 9, p1375-1398. 24p.
- Authors:
- Blattner, Charlotte E.
Abstract:Work is a central conduit to justice for the disability rights movement, which claims that through work, persons with disabilities may find meaning, belonging, and a sense of worthiness, and be taken seriously as rights-holders. Proponents of the right...
Dimensions of invisibility: insights into the daily realities of persons with disabilities living in rural communities in India.
Publication Type:Academic Journal
Source(s):Disability & Society. Sep2021, Vol. 36 Issue 8, p1285-1307. 23p.
Abstract:Persons with disabilities in rural India do not have the opportunity to lead a self-determined life and be included in their community as required by the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. To investigate their experience of living e...
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- HUMAN rights
- SOCIAL support
- RURAL conditions
- FUNCTIONAL status
- SELF-perception
- INTERVIEWING
- ACTIVITIES of daily living
- PEOPLE with disabilities
- PSYCHOLOGY
- QUALITATIVE research
- INDEPENDENT living
- ACCESSIBLE design
- ATTITUDES toward disabilities
- SOCIAL integration
- HEALTH self-care
- DEPENDENCY (Psychology)