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Social Science People With Disabilities

Absent Citizens

Disability Politics and Policy in Canada

by (author) Michael J. Prince

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
People with Disabilities, Social Security
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802099396
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $72.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802096302
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $40.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442693333
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $29.95
  • 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.

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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