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Disability studies: an interdisciplinary introduction
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 217p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The author believes that disability studies are a broad area of theory, research and practice that are antagonistic to the popular view that disability equates with personal tragedy. His book views disability studies as a paradigm shift; from disability as personal predicament to disability as a social pathology. Although the book is written from a base in England, it has international disability studies in mind throughout. It discusses the global and interdisciplinary nature of disability studies and disability politics, introduces key debates in the field and represents the intersections of disability studies with feminist, class, queer and postcolonial analyses. The book is divided into three main sections, the first contextualises the book, the second develops the core analyses of disability studies and the third sets out future ideas for development. Chapters include: introduction: global disability studies; debates: political disability studies; intersections: diverse disability studies; society: sociological disability studies; individuals: de-psychologising disability studies; psychology: critical psychological disability studies; discourse: post-structuralist disability studies; culture: psychoanalytic disability studies; education: inclusive disability studies; developments: critical disability studies. Each discussion includes thinking points to crystallise the ideas and links to other chapters to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the subject.
Becoming rhizomatic parents: Deleuze, Guattari and disabled babies
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 22(2), March 2007, pp.145-160.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In order for the sociological study of disability to enable, then it must be ready to conceptualize complex terrains of knowledge and activism. Research has to work alongside disabled people, their allies, their practices, their resistances and their theorizing. This paper makes a case for a framework of understanding that situates such work. Disability studies tends to understand its concepts (e.g. disability, exclusion, inclusion, impairment, politicization, people) as entities rooted in arborescent and hierarchical forms of knowledge. These modernist misconceptions can be challenged through understanding knowledge, practice, living and activism as rhizomatic, captured as lines of flight which are always becoming. The author makes a case for disability research understanding parents and their disabled children as deconstructing or (re)deterritorializing the areas of policy, politics, practice, theory and activism. Creating burrows for shelter and eventual breakout, becoming 'angel makers', drawing on narratives of parents of disabled babies, this paper maps out a vision of parents not blocked by the strata of disabling society, but enabled by lines of flight, resistance, flux and change. This paper aims to be Deleuzoguattarian but only in ways that fit the complexities of parents' accounts.
Empowerment, self-advocacy and resilience
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.333-343.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article critiques the relationship between the aims of ‘learning disability’ policy and the realities of the self-advocacy movement. A previous study found that self-advocacy can be defined as the public recognition of the resilience of people with learning difficulties. In the current climate of Valuing People, partnership boards and ‘user empowerment’, understanding resilience is crucial to the support of authentic forms of self-advocacy. This article aims to address such a challenge. First, understandings of resilience in relation to self-empowerment and self-advocacy are briefly considered. Second, the current policy climate and service provision rhetoric are critically explored. Third, it is argued that we need to recognize how self-advocacy groups celebrate resilience through a variety of social and identity-shifting actions. How current policy responds to these aspects of resilience is questioned. It is concluded that the lived reality of self-advocacy needs to be foregrounded in any attempt to understand empowerment.
User consultation: the bad and the good
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(1), 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author writes on his experiences of user consultation, and explains how an imaginative approach could help local authorities provide services that people want.
What's in a label?
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.2-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses the use of labels in the self-advocacy movement.
Self-advocacy in the lives of people with learning difficulties: the politics of resilience
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Publisher:
- Open University
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 272p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Offers an appraisal of self advocacy in the lives of people with learning difficulties based on the experiences of the people themselves. Includes chapters on: self advocacy, impairment and the social model of disability; researching self advocacy; five life stories of self advocates; learning from life stories; typologies and dynamics within self advocacy groups; support and models of disability; and the politics of resilience.
Supporting people with learning disabilities in self-advocacy groups and models of disability
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 6(6), November 1998, pp.438-446.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article addresses the support offered by 'advisors' to people with learning difficulties in self-advocacy groups. The author presents vignettes of support offered by advisors, which were empowering and disempowering by drawing on an ethnographic study of four self-advocacy groups. The interventions can be best understood as either reflecting a social model or an individual model of disability. Concludes by offering practical pointers to policy makers, service providers and others working with people with learning disabilities.
Locating self-advocacy in models of disability: understanding disability in the support of self-advocates with learning difficulties
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(3), June 1997, pp.367-379.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Explores different understandings of disability and examines how these are or can be implicated in the self-advocacy movement. First, the effects of the dominant individual or personal tragedy model of disability on self-advocacy is examined with reference to the advisor's position. Secondly, self-advocacy framed in terms of the alternative social model of disability is presented. Finally, understanding self-advocacy in terms of the social model is taken further. It is suggested that self-advocates themselves directly challenge dominant understandings of disability in general and can contribute to the formulation of a social theory of disability.
Self-advocacy, civil rights and the social model of disability: final research report
- Authors:
- GOODLEY Dan, ARMSTRONG Derrick
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Centre for Disability Studies
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This study examined the self-advocacy of people with the label of ‘learning difficulties’ as enacted within self-advocacy groups and accounted for in personal narratives. This very process illuminated a number of significant concerns in relation to the doing of disability research by disabled researchers. The theoretical, political and cultural background to this study can be broadly split into two areas.
Researching life stories: method, theory and analyses in a biographical age
- Authors:
- GOODLEY Dan, et al
- Publisher:
- RoutledgeFalmer
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 213p., bibiog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book reflects upon the use of life stories in social and educational research. Using four life stories as examples, the authors apply four different, practical approaches to demonstrate effective research and analysis. As well as examining in detail the four life stories around which the book is written, areas covered include: method and methodology in life story research; reflections on analyses; craft and ethics in researching life; and policy, practice and theory in life story research. Throughout the book the authors demystify the issues surrounding life story research and demonstrate the significance of this approach to understanding individual and social worlds.