ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: THE BODY
CHAPTER 3: DISABILITY ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 4: PERSONAL ASSISTANCE
CHAPTER 5: DISCRIMINATION
CHAPTER 6: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF INACCESSIBILITY
CHAPTER 7: SEXUALITY 257
CHAPTER 8: THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES
CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
The book explores critically disabling contexts using disability studies and phenomenology.
Teodor Mladenov has a PhD in Sociology of Disability from King's College London. He has published articles in Disability & Society, Critical Social Policy and Alter - European Journal of Disability Research, and has worked for many years as a researcher for disabled people's organisations and international NGOs operating in Bulgaria.
In this wonderfully affirmative appeal to the power of social
theory and philosophy, Teodor Mladenov has written a book that
carefully exposes the existential-ontological dimensions of
disablism whilst, simultaneously, opening up a space for positively
re-imagining and re-valuing different ways of being human. This is
a potent reminder that activism and theory work together at the
levels of the society and the self.
*Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, the
University of Sheffield, UK*
This extremely original and innovative book brings perspectives of
existential phenomenology and critical theory to bear on disability
studies. Clearly and confidently argued, it is a major contribution
to the field.
*William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University,
UK.*
Teodor Mladenov uses phenomenological philosophy and a carnal
approach to sociology in order to focus scholarly attention on what
it means to be human and how negative ontologies derived from
dis/ableist sentiments and practices undermine and invalidate
disabled peoples claims to membership of the human community.
Through closely argued case studies of disabled peoples experience
of life in his native Bulgaria – including, for example, in depth
discussions of personal assistance, disability assessment and media
representations - Mladenov introduces disability studies to its
philosophical soul.
*Bill Hughes, Professor, Glasgow Caledonian University,
Scotland*
A must read. By exploring contemporary Bulgaria’s conceptual and
institutional relations with disability, Teodor Mladenov has
written an intriguing phenomenological analysis of embodiment. More
intriguing still, Mladenov provides a convincing demonstration of
the significance of disability to the lingering question of what it
means to be human.
*Rod Michalko, Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Social Justice
Education, University of Toronto, Canada.*
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