Essays about: "disability in society"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 73 essays containing the words disability in society.

1. 1. From Villains and Victims to “we have all the power”. How disability advocates are reclaiming their power and challenging norms on social media.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Bronagh Flanagan; [2023]
   Keywords : Disability; Representation; Social Media; Instagram; Activism; Intersectionality; Ableism; Accessibility; Stereotypes; Education;

   Abstract : Disabled people have a long history of being excluded and treated as the “Other”, as well as being portrayed in films and on TV using negative tropes such as The Villain and The Victim. When one’s identity has been excluded or misrepresented in entertainment media, social media can also be used as a form of self-representation. READ MORE

3. 2. Frankenstein Unmasked : A Critical Analysis of “Otherness” in Frankenstein and its Significance for Establishing an Anti-Oppressive Education

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Nagham Kourie; [2023]
   Keywords : Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; Queer readings; Feminist reading; Disability studies; Otherness; Othering; Anti-Oppressive Education; Swedish Curriculum; Upper Secondary School; Oppression; Privilege.;

   Abstract : This essay analyzes the theme of “Otherness” in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through three different lenses: queer readings, feminist readings, and disability studies, which will offer multiple perspectives of the “Otherness” present in the novel. The essay will engage with critics such as Benjamin Bagocius, Fuson Wang, and Colleen Hobbs. READ MORE

4. 3. The managerial journey toward inclusivity : A qualitative study of developmental opportunities in the labor market for people with disabilities

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Cornelia Andersson; Simon Olofsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Disability; Diversity; Management; Assumptions; Fairness; Inclusivity;

   Abstract : Diversity and inclusivity in the business world has gained larger focus from media and customers over the past 60 years, however a large focus has been aimed at gender, ethnicity and race whilst other types of diversity have not been as researched. The inclusivity of people with disabilities in the regular labor market has been neglected to a large extent. READ MORE

5. 4. Inclusive education, where, how and for whom? : A qualitative analysis of discourses of inclusion and disability among Swedish podcasts

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Barn

   Author : Blanka Nizic; Julia Carlbäcker; [2023]
   Keywords : children; inclusion; disability; diversity; school;

   Abstract : The complex and ambiguous understanding of the concept of inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream schools in Sweden as well as internationally results in a frustration for both teachers, parents and mainly, the children themselves due to excluding practices where the right to education is not fulfilled. This study builds on previous research and contributes to the understanding of the concept of inclusion and its struggle of fixing the meaning. READ MORE

6. 5. ‘We do what we can with what we have’ - The daily life of people with disabilities and the long and complicated road to improve it in Pando Bolivia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

   Author : Cecilie Kyed Reese Andersen; [2023]
   Keywords : disability; poverty; family; intersectionality; mobilizing; social anthropology; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the search for grasping how the everyday life experience for people with a disability is shaped in relation to the local social and political complexities in Cobija/Pando four themes are crucial to understand. Firstly, illustrating how the rhetorical definition of disability removes the wrongfulness or responsibility from the shoulders of the individual to an exclusive social environment. READ MORE