Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies: Critical Approaches in a Global Context

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
My Story....Pages 3-9
My Sister Stevie....Pages 10-12
Simply Children....Pages 13-21
Transitions? An Invitation to Think Outside Y/our Problem Box, get Fire in Your Belly and Put Pebbles in the Pond....Pages 22-29
A Mug or a Teacup and Saucer?....Pages 30-35
Front Matter....Pages 37-38
Who Says What, Where, Why and How? Doing Real-World Research with Disabled Children, Young People and Family Members....Pages 39-56
Remembering School in Different Historical Worlds: Changing Patterns of Education in the Lives of Disabled Children and Young People....Pages 57-88
Disability, Childhood and Poverty: Critical Perspectives on Guatemala....Pages 89-104
‘Wearing It All with a Smile’: Emotional Labour in the Lives of Mothers and Disabled Children....Pages 105-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-120
Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies: Alternative Relations and Forms of Authority?....Pages 121-135
The Oppressive Power of Normalcy in the Lives of Disabled Children: Deploying History to Denaturalize the Notion of the ‘Normal Child’....Pages 136-151
Considerations of an African Childhood Disability Studies....Pages 152-163
The Disavowal of Uncanny Disabled Children: Why Non-Disabled People Are So Messed Up Around Childhood Disability....Pages 164-179
Research with Dis/abled Youth: Taking a Critical Disability, ‘Critically Young’ Positionality....Pages 180-195
Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions....Pages 196-199
Back Matter....Pages 200-204