Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.
Introduction
PART I: CONCEPTS AND ORIGINS
The Importance of Definitions in the Disablility Debate
The Origins of Disability Studies
The Rise of Disabling Capitalism
PART II: REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCOURSES
Ideology and the Disabled Individual
Constructing Disabled Identities
Creating the Disability Problem
PART III: AGENDAS AND ACTIONS
Dealing with Disabling Society
Resisting the Disabling Society
Doing Disability Studies.
