Understanding disability policy - Roulstone, Alan

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Résumé :
Understanding disability policy explores the roles of social security, social support, poverty, socio-economic status, community safety, official discourses and spatial change in shaping disabled people's opportunities.

Biographie:
Alan Roulstone is Professor of Applied Social Sciences (Disability Policy) at Northumbria University and Honorary Professor at Swansea University, UK. Alan is a disabled person who has written and researched extensively around disability policy and practice. Simon Prideaux is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Sociology & Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Simon has written extensively on policy issues and policy change, and has current critical interests in the impact of neoliberalist policies on disabled people.

'Disability policy has changed dramatically over the last fifty years and especially so since the turn of 21st century. Roulstone and Prideaux have produced a comprehensive and accessible analysis of these changes that will prove to be an invaluable text for students, researchers and policy analysts across a range of disciplines: highly recommended'. Colin Barnes, University of Leeds. This comprehensive and engaging book is a valuable addition to disability studies and to social policy more generally. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with either the legacy of social policy responses to the 'problem' of disability or with current debates about the future development of disability policy. Hannah Morgan, Lancaster University Understanding Disability Policy is a sophisticated and elegant book which engages with inherently complex and contested issues with conceptual clarity ... Roulstone and Prideaux have produced here an essential read for those from social work, disability studies and all policy backgrounds. British Journal of Social Policy Understanding Disability Policy is a sophisticated and elegant book which engages with inherently complex and contested issues with conceptual clarity. Toby Brandon Journal of Social Policy Sometimes, after reading a book it seems incredible that it did not exist already. So it is with Understanding Disability Policy, a book that unusually provides an historically grounded yet up-to-date introduction to disability policy - rather than disability studies - that is accessible enough for the undergraduate student and rich enough to provoke thought among more established researchers. - Disability & Society