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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-445-3

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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-445-3

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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-445-3

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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-445-3

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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-445-3

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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-445-3

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Publication date: 5 October 2017

Katherine Runswick-Cole and Rebecca Wood

In this chapter, we consider how the character of Rob Titchener has been developed in The Archers, moving him from hero of the hour to villain of the piece. We draw on a critical…

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In this chapter, we consider how the character of Rob Titchener has been developed in The Archers, moving him from hero of the hour to villain of the piece. We draw on a critical disability studies’ perspective to argue that ability and disability have been crucial in turning the character of Rob from the desirable and attractive man who first arrived in the village into a national hate figure, despised by all. We begin this analysis by introducing critical disability studies and studies of ableism as fields of academic inquiry. We then draw on these resources to offer an analysis of the ways in which ability and disability were used as a narrative device to develop Rob’s character. We question the ways in which ability and disability are used to denote ‘good’ and ‘evil’ in the development of characters in cultural texts like The Archers, and end with a plea to scriptwriters to engage differently with dis/ability and to consider the impact of the stories we tell on the everyday lives of disabled people.

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Custard, Culverts and Cake
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-285-7

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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-445-3

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Publication date: 26 January 2023

Kim Fernandes and Tanushree Sarkar

In this chapter, we examine how the media in India constructed the lives, needs, and desires of disabled children in India during the tumultuous pandemic.

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In this chapter, we examine how the media in India constructed the lives, needs, and desires of disabled children in India during the tumultuous pandemic.

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Through critical discourse analysis, we address how children's bodies and needs have been explicitly discursively constructed as “excessive,” while implicitly drawing upon neoliberal, ableist logics of loss and productivity.

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We foreground how the framing of COVID-19 as a disaster in the Indian context obscures state neglect, suggesting that inequality has been the result of the pandemic rather than the limits of state care under neoliberal ableism. Despite the recognition of gaps in the care received by disabled children, neoliberal, entrepreneurial solutions have emerged as a new, widely touted form of care during the pandemic.

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Through our analysis, we highlight how disabled children have been neglected by the state and constructed as burdensome and vulnerable. We argue that this occurs when disabled children's bodyminds do not conform to an ideal of the self-reliant, independent citizen under the logics of neoliberal ableism. Our work demonstrates how children with disabilities are discursively rendered absent from conceptualizations of normate citizenship, unless seen as contributing to current or future aspirations for state productivity and growth.

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Disability in the Time of Pandemic
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ISBN: 978-1-80262-140-2

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Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-445-3

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