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Disability and Technology

An Interdisciplinary and International Approach

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Alan Roulstone

    1. School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, LEEDS, United Kingdom

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. An Introduction and Overview

    • Alan Roulstone
    Pages 1-41

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 237-249
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About this book

This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technology studies and clinical studies, the book argues that interdisciplinary insights together provide a more nuanced and less stylized picture of the benefits and barriers in disability and technology.

Drawing on a breadth of empirical studies from across the globe, a picture emerges of the complex and multi-directional interplay of technology and disability. Technology is neither inherently enabling or disabling but fundamentally shaped by the social dynamics that shape their design, use and impact.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, LEEDS, United Kingdom

    Alan Roulstone

About the author

Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies at the University Leeds, UK. He is author of twelve books and over sixty journal articles and book chapters. His interests include disability, technology, policy, exclusion, inclusion, and the politics of hate crime. Alan has completed a range of internationally recognised research and with policy, practice, and activist constituencies.

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