Disability, disease and gifts: a field study report on disabled teenagers.
Focusing on disabled teenagers living in a community where the underprivileged and impoverished population gathered, this paper explores, through re-examining their conditions of living and their survival strategies, the liberating possibility of notions such as “disease” and “craziness.” By emphasi...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 147 - 156 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2017
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| Sumario: | Focusing on disabled teenagers living in a community where the underprivileged and impoverished population gathered, this paper explores, through re-examining their conditions of living and their survival strategies, the liberating possibility of notions such as “disease” and “craziness.” By emphasizing how the underprivileged resists becoming the imagination of the intellectual class, the article attempt to complicate and differentiate the acts of “caring” and further imagine the possibilities of other discourses and resistances. |
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