Social Science People With Disabilities
Absent Citizens
Disability Politics and Policy in Canada
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- People with Disabilities, Social Security
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802099396
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $72.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802096302
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $40.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442693333
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442687301
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $72.00
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Description
Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic deficiencies in Canadian society and emphasizes the effects that these omissions have on the lives of citizens with disabilities.
Drawing together elements from feminist studies, political science, public administration, sociology, and urban studies, Michael J. Prince examines mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion, public attitudes on disability, and policy-making processes in the context of disability. Absent Citizens also considers social activism and civic engagements by people with disabilities and disability community organizations, highlighting presence rather than absence and advocating both inquiry and action to ameliorate the marginalization of an often overlooked segment of the Canadian population.
About the author
Michael J. Prince holds the Lansdowne Chair in Social Policy at the University of Victoria and is co-author of Rules and Unruliness: Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism.
Editorial Reviews
Prince offers a compelling perspective, a deep and though political analysis, and a number of intriguing propositions for engaging disability studies academy and the disability advocacy movement towards full citizenship.
Mary Ann McColl, <em>Journal of Social Policy</em>, vol 39:04:10
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