Full Description
This co-authored text critically explores the key findings of the Living Life to the Fullest project - a project that has explored the lives, thoughts, hopes and aspirations of disabled young people living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. Written by disabled young people and academic researchers, the book articulates ethical co-production in social research.
The prolific contemporary political and theoretical debates about life, death and the human in an age of global precarity and austerity are explored in this book. Chapters draw upon key themes and co-researchers' priorities for writing about their lives: for example, the politics and potentials of co-production as a research method/ology; animal and human relationships; aging, time; sexuality and body image; politics, activism and disability arts and culture; and fragility, and death and dying.
Contents
Chapter 1. Living Life to the Fullest: Our Project
Chapter 2. Theorising disability: Towards a DisHuman perspective
Chapter 3. Co-production, participatory and emancipatory disability research
Chapter 4. Posthuman Connections: Rethinking animal-human relationships
Chapter 5. Disability & Faith
Chapter 6. Rethinking sexuality, our intimate selves and our relationships with others
Chapter 7. Labour in the lives of disabled young people
Chapter 8. Making Meaningful Impact in and with schools
Chapter 9. Desiring Life and Living with Death
