Overcoming Disabling Barriers

<p>This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty essential articles from the journal <em>Disability and Society</em> written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK the USA Australia and Europe. </p><p>Compiled by the current editors of the journal it is divided into three sections which mirror the three central themes: </p><ul> <li>disability studies – clearly illustrates the debates and challenges that have emerged within the field over the last two decades </li> <li>policy – offers a snapshot of social policy that has impinged on the lives of disabled people in many parts of the world </li> <li>research issues – reveals the inequalities between disabled and non-disabled people and the advocacy of new methods and research practices. </li> </ul><p>The editors’ specially written introduction to each section contextualises the selection and introduces students to the main issues and current thinking in the field. Altogether this book is a rich source of ideas and insights covering conceptual theoretical empirical and cross-cultural issues and questions.</p>