Learning Disability and Everyday Life
Alex Cockain, "Learning Disability and Everyday Life "
English | ISBN: 1032018240 | 2024 | 294 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 27 MB
English | ISBN: 1032018240 | 2024 | 294 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 27 MB
Learning Disability and Everyday Life brings into conversation ideas from social theory with “thick” descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism.
This book is markedly ethnographic in its orientation to the gritty graininess of everyday life―eating, drinking, walking, cooking, talking, and so on―in, with, and alongside learning disability. However, preoccupation with, the “small” coexists with a gaze intent upon capturing a bigger picture, to the extent that the things constituting everyday life are deployed as prisms through and with which to critically reflect upon the wider worlds of dis/ability and everyday life. Such attention to the small and the big―the micro and the macro―allows this book to explore the ordinary and everyday ways meanings about normalcy and abnormalcy, ability and disability, are put together, enacted, practised, made (up)―in the sense of constituting
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