Youth and Disability

In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of 'the reasonable' to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural frameworks, rarely have sociological studies of 'youth' and 'disability' been brought together. By taking an interdisciplinary, critical disability studies approach to explore the socio-cultural concepts of 'youth' and 'disability' alongside one-another, Slater convincingly demonstrates that 'youth' and 'disability' have been conceptualised within medical/psychological frameworks for too long.

Autorentext

Jenny Slater is Lecturer in Education and Disability Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Zusammenfassung
In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of ´the reasonable´ to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural frameworks, rarely have sociological studies of ´youth´ and ´disability´ been brought together. By taking an interdisciplinary, critical disability studies approach to explore the socio-cultural concepts of ´youth´ and ´disability´ alongside one-another, Slater convincingly demonstrates that ´youth´ and ´disability´ have been conceptualised within medical/psychological frameworks for too long. With chapters focusing on access and youth culture, independence, autonomy and disabled people´s movements, and the body, gender and sexuality, this volume´s intersectional and transdisciplinary engagement with social theory offers a significant contribution to existing theoretical and empirical literature and knowledges around disability and youth. Indeed, through highlighting the ableism of adulthood and the falsity of conceptualising youth as a time of becoming-independent-adult, the need to shift approaches to research around dis/abled youth is one of the main themes of the book. This book therefore is a provocation to rethink what is implicit about ´youth´ and ´disability´. Moreover, through such an endeavour, this book sits as a challenge to Mr Reasonable.

Inhalt

Introduction Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 1 Disabled People in (Neo)liberal Times (or, Disability as Unreasonable); Chapter 2 Youth as Border Zone, Disability and Disposability (or, Challenging Youth as Becoming-Reasonable Adult); Chapter 3 The Making of Un/Reasonable Bodies at the Border Zone of Youth; Chapter 4 From Adulthood Independence to Continuing Relational Autonomy; Chapter 5 Negotiating Space and Constituting 'Problems': Access at the Border Zone of Youth; Chapter 6 Dis/abled Youth, Bodies, Femininity and Sexuality:Having Difficult Conversations; Chapter 7 The Limits of 'Sameness': Goodbye Mr Reasonable;