Disability Politics and Care: The Challenge of Direct Funding

by Christine Kelly

Overview

“We do not need care!” is a rallying cry for disability movements. It is informed by a recognition that a lack of choice over simple care decisions – like what to eat or what to wear – is a subtle yet pervasive form of violence endured by many disabled people. Disability Politics and Care examines an independent living program to explore what happens when people with disabilities take control of their own care arrangements. Christine Kelly documents responses by a wide range of stakeholders of this program and reflects on some of its broader social and political implications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780774830102
Publisher:	University of British Columbia Press
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Christine Kelly is assistant professor of community health sceinces at the University of Manitoba.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Tensions of Care

Part 1: Conceptualizing and Researching Care

1 Accessible Care

2 Research, Care, and Embracing the Possibilities of Failure

Part 2: Removing Care

3 “In My Mind That’s Not What Care Is”: Care Is Not What Happens Here

4 Exploring the “Authentic Times to Care”: The Places Where Care Belongs

Part 3:Policy and Social Movement Implications

5 Intricate Messages, Local and Transnational Erasures

6 Governing Independent Living

Conclusion: Removing Care Amid a “Crisis of Care”

Works Cited

Index

What People are Saying About This

Catherine Frazee

It’s all here. The tensions and contradictions, the fissures of solidarity, the elegant choreography, the unspoken beauty. Enter this intricate weaving of scholarship, policy, and experience, and reconsider the nuanced relations of giving and receiving intimate human support. In her lucid and meticulous book, Christine Kelly reveals how independent living is 'done.' Disability Politics and Care gives us what we need to revalue – and liberate – care.

Jay Dolmage

Disability Politics and Care is at once very accessible in scope, yet unflinching in applying analysis across locations and commitments. It exposes the creative, resistant, politicized efforts of people with disabilities to redefine their roles, refusing to zoom out from, or to decentre, their experience. This isthebook on Canadian disability movements.

Fiona Robinson

A bold, innovative book. Rich in empirical material and creative and critical in its analysis, Disability Politics and Care moves beyond irreconcilable 'either/or' debates about the value of care by presenting it as a tension. Kelly’s use of autoethnography makes the narrative compelling and 'truthful.'