Questions of Competence
Culture, Classification and Intellectual Disability

Table of Contents

1. Culture, classification and (in)competence Richard Jenkins
2. Mental disability in the United States: an interactionist perspective Michael V. Angrosino
3. (In)competence in America in comparative perspective Patrick J. Devlieger
4. Risk, resilience and competence: parents with learning difficulties and their children Tim Booth and Wendy Booth
5. Constructing other selves: (in)competence and the category of learning difficulties Charlotte Aull Davies
6. Work, opportunity and culture: (in)competence in Greece and Wales Sylvia van Maastricht
7. Slow cookers and madmen: competence of heart and head in rural Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte
8. States and categories: indigenous models of personhood in northwest Greenland Mark Nuttall
9. Learning to become (in)competent: children in Belize speak out Nancy Lundgren
10. Towards a social model of (in)competence Richard Jenkins.

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