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Discursive Psychology and Disability

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  • Brings together the dual focus on disability and discursive psychology
  • Offers a comprehensive look at how discursive psychologists might study disability
  • Includes responses to the empirical and theoretical chapters written by disability studies scholars

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology (PSDP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Theoretical and Empirical Discussions

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About this book

This book explores how discursive psychology (DP) research can be applied to disability and the everyday and institutional constructions of bodymind differences. Bringing together both theoretical and empirical work, it illustrates how DP might be leveraged to make visible nuanced understandings of disability and difference writ large. The authors argue that DP can attend to how such realities are made relevant, dealt with, and negotiated within social practices in the study of disability. They contend that DP can be used to unearth the nuanced and frequently taken for granted ways in which disability is made real in both everyday and institutional talk, and can highlight the very ways in which differences are embodied in social practices – specifically at the level of talk and text. 

This book demonstrates that rather than simply staying at the level of theory, DP scholars can make visible the actual means by which disabilities and differences more broadly aremade real, resisted, contested, and negotiated in everyday social actions. This book aims to expand conceptions of disability and to deepen the – at present, primarily theoretical – critiques of medicalization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Jessica Nina Lester

About the editor

Jessica Nina Lester is Associate Professor of Inquiry Methodology in the School of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Dr Lester has published numerous journal articles, books, and book chapters focused on discourse and conversation analysis, disability studies, and more general concerns related to qualitative research.

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