Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability
This book explores the concept of "occupation" in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are
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Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability
Pamela Block • Devva Kasnitz Akemi Nishida • Nick Pollard Editors
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability
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Editors Pamela Block Disability Studies, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences School of Health Technology and Management Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY, USA Akemi Nishida Disability and Human Development Gender and Women’s Studies University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL, USA
Devva Kasnitz Disability Studies School of Professional Studies The City University of New York New York, NY, USA Nick Pollard Occupational Therapy Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield, UK
ISBN 978-94-017-9983-6 ISBN 978-94-017-9984-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9984-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015943316 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover credit: © Neil Marcus Tent City 2011, Oakland, California City Center. Image Description: Somewhat battered protest posters, “Occupy Colonize” and “Everything Oakland,” line a subway stairwell behind a metal hand rail. A bike wheel protrudes from the right, seeming to climb the stairs. The space is not accessible, yet it is claimed. Printed on acid-free paper Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Dordrecht is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www. springer.com)
Foreword
The editors of Occupying Disability have given us a book that is bold, critical, and radical. Its core project consists in “decolonizing disability.” Toward this end, the editors offer a synthesis of three disparate kinds of sources: • Occupational therapy, a health profession concerned with prevention and remediation of barriers to function and social participation of peop
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