{"product_id":"keywords-dan-mcevoy-9781067604400","title":"Keywords: A Vocabulary of Child Disability","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe word \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eneed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e appears in almost every statute governing disabled children's lives in Britain. It looks like it is about the child. It is about the budget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeywords A Vocabulary of Child Disability\u003c\/em\u003e examines 176 such words - from \u003cem\u003eAbandonment\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eYoung Carer\u003c\/em\u003e - that shape how Britain treats disabled children and their families. Each entry traces a word's history and dissects its current usage across SEND law, social care, education, and everyday speech, revealing the ideological work it performs, often against the interests of the children it claims to describe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe method comes from Raymond Williams's \u003cem\u003eKeywords\u003c\/em\u003e (1976), which showed how ordinary words carry ideologies that shape what a society can see. Applied to child disability, it is unusually revealing. \u003cem\u003eSpecial\u003c\/em\u003e was introduced to replace categories of deficit; within a generation it had become a mechanism for segregation. \u003cem\u003eCare\u003c\/em\u003e means tenderness and it means warehousing - and the history of disabled children is the history of that ambiguity being exploited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cumulative argument is this: the language used about disabled children is not a reflection of how we think about them. It is a mechanism by which we avoid thinking about them. Every euphemism, every clinical classification, every sentimental phrase exists in part to manage the discomfort that disability provokes in a society organised around productivity, independence, and normality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe words are not innocent. They never were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dan McEvoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1067604405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781067604400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Small Engine Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d","brand":"Dan McEvoy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517156176127,"sku":"9781067604400","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bccee211-0bdb-4efe-b7e0-1d54a95bafaa.jpg?v=1778730281","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/keywords-dan-mcevoy-9781067604400","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}