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Disability and Rurality: Identity, Gender and Belonging (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies)
Disability and Rurality Identity Gender and Belonging - Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Author:Karen Soldatic, Kelley Johnson This is the first book to explore how far disability, as a social identity, challenges dominant understandings of rurality, identity and belonging within the rural literature, particularly in regards to the ways in which bodies are given meaning and value in relation to core ethical rural considerations associated with physical strength, product... more »ivity, and social reciprocity. A range of different perspectives to the issues of living rurally with a disability inform this work. It includes the lived experience of people with disabilities through the use of life history methodologies and goes beyond conventional notions of rurality through grounding its analysis in a range of disability spaces and places and including the work of disability sociologists, geographers, cultural theorists and policy analysis. This inter-disciplinary reveals the contradictory and competing relations of rurality for disabled people and, the resultant impacts and effects upon disabled people?s lives materially, discursively and symbolically. Of interest to all scholars of disability, rural studies, social work and welfare, this, the book provides a critical intervention into the growing scholarship of rurality that has by-passed the pivotal role of disability in understanding, locating and describing rural landscapes.« less