Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Differences And Emerging Identities (routledge Advances In Disability Studies)
by Janice McLaughlin /
2016 / English / PDF
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A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people
in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to
monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular
disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns
can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through
which they are examined.
A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people
in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to
monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular
disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns
can find themselves surrounded by multiple practices through
which they are examined.
This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative research to
look at how disabled children have been cared for, treated and
categorised. Narrative and longitudinal interviews with children
and their families, along with stories and images they have
produced and notes from observations of different spaces in their
lives – medical consultation rooms, cafes and leisure centres,
homes, classrooms and playgrounds amongst others – all make a
contribution.
This rich book draws on a wide range of qualitative research to
look at how disabled children have been cared for, treated and
categorised. Narrative and longitudinal interviews with children
and their families, along with stories and images they have
produced and notes from observations of different spaces in their
lives – medical consultation rooms, cafes and leisure centres,
homes, classrooms and playgrounds amongst others – all make a
contribution.
Bringing this wealth of empirical data together with conceptual
ideas from disability studies, sociology of the body, childhood
studies, symbolic interactionism and feminist critical theory,
the authors explore the multiple ways in which monitoring occurs
within childhood disability and its social effects. Their
discussion includes examining the dynamics of differentiation via
medicine, social interaction, and embodiment and the multiple
actors – including children and young people themselves –
involved. The book also investigates the practices that
differentiate children into different categories and what this
means for notions of normality, integration, belonging and
citizenship.
Bringing this wealth of empirical data together with conceptual
ideas from disability studies, sociology of the body, childhood
studies, symbolic interactionism and feminist critical theory,
the authors explore the multiple ways in which monitoring occurs
within childhood disability and its social effects. Their
discussion includes examining the dynamics of differentiation via
medicine, social interaction, and embodiment and the multiple
actors – including children and young people themselves –
involved. The book also investigates the practices that
differentiate children into different categories and what this
means for notions of normality, integration, belonging and
citizenship.
Scrutinising the multiple forms of monitoring around disabled
children and the consequences they generate for how we think
about childhood and what is ‘normal’, this volume sits at the
intersection of disability studies and childhood studies.
Scrutinising the multiple forms of monitoring around disabled
children and the consequences they generate for how we think
about childhood and what is ‘normal’, this volume sits at the
intersection of disability studies and childhood studies.
