{"product_id":"9789819500420","title":"Creative Methodological Disruptions for Disability Studies Suspending Ableism, Towards a Critical Humanness","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCreative Methodological Disruptions for Disability Studies\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSuspending Ableism, Towards a Critical Humanness\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrancesca Bernardi\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Sociology \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a unique approach to disabled children’s views, articulating methodological reflections and experiences from a study conducted with children with diagnoses of autism and their parents. The reader is invited to engage with the ways children reclaim their social agency and multiple ways of knowing, being and becoming, through creative encounters where mattering and autonomy are protected.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWeaving together arts scholarship, art activism, multimodality, critical poetic narrative, and Gramsci’s organic intellectualism, the book maps the oppressive systems that dehumanise and stifle disabled children’s identities, reshape parenthood and obscure capabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe author addresses the value of creative autonomy, affect and reflexivity in ethical research, disrupting the directive practices that pervade disabled lives. This is an urgent call to question the different ways children’s freedom of expression is easily sacrificed, enmeshed in rhetoric, bureaucracy and habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe dialogue between the narrative and the artworks opens up diverse channels for recognition, to learn from children, to be present, resist direction, and restore our shared humanness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancesca Bernardi\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent scholar, artist and speaker. Her socially-engaged work with individuals navigating dis\/ability, cultural and social exclusions, is non-hierarchical decolonial and multimodal, rooted in arts-informed methodologies, critical dis\/ability studies and social pedagogy. She is the founding chair of the Antonio Gramsci Society UK, an international forum for accessible civic engagement, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, editorial board member of Disability \u0026amp; Society, member of CATA-ACAT, and the Marxist Education Project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29 May 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819500420\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e277\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44395223285900,"sku":"9789819500420","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819500420.jpg?v=1781087531","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789819500420","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}