About the Book
This book examines the state of art
in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the
broader South Asian situation. It presents interdisciplinary
perspectives on the basic idea, evolution, practices and challenges of
researching and teaching disability studies at various higher education
institutions and in other civil society spaces. The chapters address a
range of related themes, including activism, development policies,
research, pedagogy, spatial and social access, caste and gender
representations and rights-based discourses. Given the scope of its
coverage, the book is of interest to scholars and students in area of
humanities, education, law, sociology and social work, political science
development and disability studies.
About the editors
Contents
1. Situating Disability Studies: A Prolegomenon / Nilika Mehrotra
Part I: Epistomologies and Representations2. Decolonising Disability Studies? Developing South Asia-Specific Approaches to Understanding Disability / James Staples
3. Disorder, Disability, Difference: (Re)presenting Autism in India / Shubhangi Vaidya
4. Disability and Public Spaces: Universal Design Approaches / Shilpa Das
5 Ignorance of Disability: Some Epistemological Questions / Anita Ghai
6. Rethinking Monsters: Teaching Disability Studies Through History and the Humanities / Shilpaa Anand
Part II: Policy and Institutionalisation7. Service and Knowledge: The Emergence of Disability Studies Extension / Tanmoy Bhattacharya
8. Disability Education at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi / Neerja Sharma
9. Establishing a Disability Studies Centre in a Law University: Recounting the CDS NALSAR Experience / Amita Dhanda
10. Mapping Disability Studies Programmes in India: A Case of Hyderabad, Telangana / Nilika Mehrotra and Ritika Gulyani
11. Disability Social Work Education: Emerging Trajectory in India / Srilatha Juvva
Part III: Academia—Activism Interface: Enabling Practices12.
Resisting Dominant Construction of Blindness and the Genesis of
Disability Studies in the University of Delhi: A Historical Context /
Jagdish Chander
13. Emancipating the Lives of Persons with
Disabilities: Potential for Contributions by Disability Studies /
Deepa Sonpal and Vanmala Hiranandani
14. The Right to Work for Persons with Disability in India: A Critical Disability Theory Perspective / Nimushakavi Vasanthi
15. ‘Encounters’ with Disabled People: Concerns from Field Work Settings / Mahima Nayar
16. Examining the Question of Deaf Education within Disability Studies in Delhi, India / Ritika Gulyani
17.
Examining the Experience, Barriers and Enabling Measures for Visually
Impaired Visitors in Heritage Sites: A Study in the Indian Context to
Enhance Accessibility and Inclusion / Kavita Murugkar, Anurag Kashyap
and Abir Mullick
About the Author / Editor
Nilika Mehrotra is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to this, she taught sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She specializes in the issues of gender, disability, social policy, and historical analysis of the economic and social development processes.
