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In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation. Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.

The Disability Studies Reader addresses the post-identity theoretical landscape by emphasizing questions of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Selections explore the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and explode the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. The collection addresses physical disabilities, but as always investigates issues around pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities as well. Featuring a new generation of scholars who are dealing with the most current issues, the fifth edition continues the Reader’stradition of remaining timely, urgent, and critical.

The reality of the built environment for disabled people is one of social, physical and attitudinal barriers which prevent their ease of mobility, movement and access. In the United Kingdom, most homes cannot be accessed by wheelchair, while accessible transport is the exception rather than the rule. Pavements are littered with street furniture, while most public and commercial buildings provide few design features to permit disabled people ease of access. Inclusive Design is a documentation of the attitudes, values and practices of property professionals, including developers, surveyors and architects, in responding to the building needs of disabled people. It looks at the way in which pressure for accessible building design is influencing the policies and practices of property companies and professionals, with a primary focus on commercial developments in the UK. The book also provides comments on, and references to, other countries, particularly Sweden, New Zealand, and the USA.

Fantastik edebiyatın kraliçesi Nazlı Eray’dan sarsıcı bir metafor-roman! Geride bırakılmış uzun, renkli bir hayatın acı-tatlı hatıraları, bu romanda adeta büyülü bir mercekten süzülerek bir müsveddeye giriyor. Hayatımın Müsveddesi ’nde, geceleri yazılıp sabahları okunamayan tomarlara karalanmış anılar, düşler, hayaller, buruk ama cümbüşlü bir geçit yapıyor. Nar tanesindeki şehirler, kahkahalarla dolu bir cenaze, güvercine dönüşüp uçan apartman kapıcısı Mösyö Hristo, öldükten sonra ruh çağırma seanslarında işe başlayan Ali; hatta Pirandello, Paganini ve Cahide Sonku, kahramanımızın müsveddelerinde buluşuyor. Mösyö Hristo satırları kitabın içine attı. Elime alıp iyice salladım kitabı. İçinden gülüşmeler, acı bir hıçkırık, fısır fısır konuşmalar, isyan çığlıkları, yaşlı birinin gençliğini hatırladıkça aklından geçen gürültülü düşünceler, kalpteki duygular, eski ve yeni günler, kuş sesleri geliyordu. “Bu burada dursun,” dedim Mösyö Hristo’ya. “Mayalansın. Her şey yerine otursun. Yarına kadar açmayalım.” Kitabı rafa kaldırdım.