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Learning Disability and Everyday Life

Learning Disability and Everyday Life

Cockain, Alex

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Disability Studies

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032018240
ISBN13: 9781032018249
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 29 2024
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 and fabricating--and, crucially, accomplished through and between people in specific, and invariably contingent, sociocultural, discursive, and material conditions of possibility.

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