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Two substantial recent BIBLIOGRAPHIES with introduction and partial
annotation are now open online at the Independent Living Institute site,
and a third has been there for a while but was not earlier notified here.
(From 10% to 20% of the materials overlap between these three bibliogs).
1. Disability and Deafness in East Asia: social and educational responses,
from antiquity to recent times:
http://independentliving.org/docs7/miles200708.html [also as .pdf]
This introduces and lists 900 articles, chapters and books having some
concern with disability, deafness or mental disorder, in China, Korea and
Japan, mostly in English, some in German or French, with some annotation.
(The historical parts, Antiquity to 1950, were hosted for several years on
a University of Nijmegen site, which closed some months ago. That material
has been extended, and 350 items are added for modern East Asia).
2. Disability and Deafness in the context of Religion, Spirituality and
Belief, in Middle Eastern, South Asian and East Asian Cultures and
Histories.
http://independentliving.org/docs7/miles200707.html [also as .pdf]
The bibliog introduces and lists 450 items, across the beliefs, religions
and cultures of the Middle East and much of Asia, from antiquity to the
present. [Okay, it would be much more sensible not to begin paddling
around in the religious beliefs of half the world on this topic. Real
scholars don't do that sort of thing! The sole excuse is that much of the
material is fascinating. Yet to make good sense of it is not easy. It is
much simpler just to talk, on a basis of complete ignorance, about Asian or
Middle Eastern beliefs and how they impinge on disability, without
bothering to read any of the religious texts, commentaries, historical
documents, or discussions...]
3. Social Responses to Disability & Poverty in Economically Weaker
Countries: trends, critique, and lessons usually not learnt.
http://www.independentliving.org/docs7/miles200603.html [also as .pdf]
This annotated bibliography has 250 modern and historical items from
Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and a few from S. America. (Parts of it
first appeared in the DisabilityWorld e-zine). It takes a critical view of
literature that is based on official baloney and popular ideologies, and
offers some material with a research basis. Disabled people are often
disproportionately present among the world’s poor, and the numbers in that
situation are growing. Some authors have described more carefully the
lives, strengths and weaknesses of people in those situations, conveying
some of the complexities and some of the ways in which people exert
themselves to survive and improve their situation.
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Many thanks to Independent Living Institute staff, Adolf Ratzka and Miles
Goldstick, for kind assistance in making these bibliographies freely
available online.
(Well, thanks too, to Mark Priestley, for running this notice board!)
m. miles
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