Interrogating Disability in India : Theory and Practice.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Interrogating Disability in India -- Abstract -- 1.1 Defining Disability -- 1.2 State Policies, Disability Discourse and Quality of Life of Disabled People in India -- 1.2.1 Programmatic Interventions for Persons with Disabilities in India -- 1.3 Emerging Discourse on Disability: Contradictions and Contestations -- 1.4 Conclusion -- References -- 2 The Models Approach in Disability Scholarship: An Assessment of Its Failings -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Elaborating the "Models" Approach -- 2.3 Formulating a Cultural Critique of the Models Approach -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Diversity at Workplace and in Education -- Abstract -- 3.1 Setting the Theoretical Background -- 3.1.1 Introduction -- 3.1.2 Centring Disability as Knowledge Empowerment -- 3.1.3 Methodology: Humanities or Social Sciences? -- 3.1.3.1 A Return to "Design" -- 3.1.3.2 Social Capital -- 3.2 The Empirical Evidence -- 3.2.1 Disability at the Workplace and in Educational Institutions -- 3.2.1.1 A Typology of Employment -- 3.2.1.2 Assistance Through Vocational Training -- 3.2.1.3 Employment Through Poverty Alleviation -- 3.2.1.4 Promises of the Private Sector -- 3.2.1.5 The Census and Other Figures -- 3.2.1.6 Levels of Work -- 3.2.1.7 Characterization of Workers -- 3.2.2 Disability and Educational Institutions -- 3.2.2.1 Special Education/School -- 3.2.2.2 Inclusion -- 3.2.2.3 The True Nature of Inclusion -- 3.3 Conclusion: Diversity, not Inclusion, Is the Key -- References -- Other Sources -- 4 Right to Care, Home and Family: Ethics of Responsibility Towards Persons with Disability -- Abstract -- 4.1 Family Enters the Disability Rights Paradigm in India -- 4.2 Women with Disabilities or Disabled Women: Marriage, Motherhood, Sexual Violence and Movement(S).

4.3 Responsibility/Ethicality to Care: Limitations of the Disability Rights Discourse -- References -- 5 Living Arrangement and Capability Deprivation of the Disabled in India -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Conceptual and Methodological Prelude -- 5.3 Some Quantitative Aspects of Disability in India -- 5.4 Marital Status and Living Arrangement -- 5.5 Results of Logistic Regressions -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- 6 The Right to Be Different: Autism and Advocacy in Urban India -- Abstract -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Mental/Intellectual Disabilities in a Cross-cultural Perspective -- 6.3 Between Biology and Culture: The Case of Autism Spectrum Disorder -- 6.4 Families of Persons with High Support Needs -- 6.5 Parental Activism and Social Change: Case Study of an NGO -- 6.6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 7 Power and Leveraging in a Disability Context -- Abstract -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Philosophical Underpinnings -- 7.3 Power and Disability -- 7.4 Agency and Leveraging Personal Power -- 7.5 Leveraging Impairment -- 7.6 Partnering for Power and Leverage -- 7.7 Co-creating Power -- 7.8 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Negotiating Femininity: Lived Experiences of Women with Locomotor Disabilities in Bengal -- Abstract -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Constructing the Disabled Woman in Bengal -- 8.3 Embodied Experiences: Bengali Women -- 8.3.1 Fashioning a Feminine Identity -- 8.3.2 A Feminine Gait -- 8.3.3 Presenting a Feminine Self -- 8.3.4 Dealing with Menstrual Processes -- 8.3.5 Desirability and Denial -- 8.4 Impaired Bodies in Public Domains -- 8.5 Conclusion -- References -- 9 Women and Men at Work: Livelihood Experiences of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) in West Bengal -- Abstract -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Methodology and Theoretical Underpinnings -- 9.2.1 Thwarted Efforts to Access Education, the Fundamental Pathway to Livelihood.

9.2.1.1 For the CwD, Access to Education is "Type" Dependent -- 9.2.1.2 Teacher Training: Inadequate and Incomplete -- 9.2.1.3 Teachers' Attitudes and Academic Expectations -- 9.2.1.4 Gender Roles and Early Withdrawal of Girls from Education -- 9.2.2 Vocational Training and Skill Development: The Weak Link to Livelihood -- 9.2.2.1 Centralized Formal Training Institutes -- 9.2.2.2 Trade-Based Livelihood Opportunities -- 9.2.2.3 Locally Organized Formal Training Programs -- 9.2.2.4 Informal Training -- 9.2.3 Formal Sector Policy Bias and the Exclusion from State Support Programmes -- 9.2.3.1 Exclusion from State Programmes on Poverty and Livelihood -- 9.3 Unequal Encounters: The Experience of Young Persons with Disabilities in Governmental Institutions -- 9.4 Glimpses into the Work Lives of PwDs -- 9.5 Conclusion -- References -- 10 The Disability Rights Movement in India: Its Origin, Methods of Advocacy, Issues and Trends -- Abstract -- 10.1 Self-advocacy Movement of the Blind -- 10.2 Origin of Disability Rights Movement -- 10.3 Struggle from the Streets to Courts, Quasi-Judicial Bodies and the Use of Internet -- 10.4 Broadening the Agenda of the Struggle for Rights and Emergence of a Cross-Disability Character of the Movement -- 10.5 Acceptance of a Rights-Based Approach by NGOs in the Field of Disability -- 10.6 Conclusion -- References -- 11 Disabled People's Organizations in India: Assertions and Angsts -- Abstract -- 11.1 Disability Politics in India -- 11.2 The Collectives: Vision and Activities -- 11.3 Advocacy for Rights -- 11.4 Implications for Movements -- 11.5 Conclusion -- References.

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