{"product_id":"ableism-as-violence","title":"Ableism as Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbleism produces measurable harm - to bodies, minds and lives. This book argues it should be understood not just as structural oppression, but as violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on definitions of violence from the World Health Organization and sociologist Sylvia Walby, Beckett and Griffiths develop an original four-part violence-typology: direct harmful acts, failures to act, discretionary denial of care and policy withdrawal of support. Theorising ableism as a dispositif of violence, they apply this framework to hate crimes, microaggressions, institutional confinement, assisted dying and the deprioritisation of disabled lives during COVID-19.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeaving rigorous analysis with dialogue between a disabled academic-activist and non-disabled ally, this is scholarship as resistance - naming violence where it is too often obscured\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Policy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51192139677981,"sku":"9781447376897","price":153.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781447376897.jpg?v=1776808232","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/ableism-as-violence","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}