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The disability rights movement in Australia: a note from the trenches
- Author:
- NEWELL Christopher
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(3), September 1996, pp.429-432.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Briefly looks at the disability rights movement in Australia.
Disability in Australia: exposing a social apartheid
- Authors:
- GOGGIN Gerard, NEWELL Christopher
- Publisher:
- University of New South Wales Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- Sydney, NSW
This book names and explore a hidden blight in society: the routine, daily and oppressive treatment of people with disabilities. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from health and welfare, sport, biotechnology, deinstitutionalisation, political life, and the treatment of refugees, this work puts disability firmly on the agenda.
Commonsense and the doing of supported care: a case study
- Authors:
- WAREING David, NEWELL Christopher
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 30(2), June 2005, pp.104-114.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A critical analysis is provided of naturally occurring talk between 6 support workers and an allied health professional as they go about their business of doing a behavioural management plan for Jane, a woman with a severe intellectual and communication disability. Utilising Membership Categorization Analysis, a form of ethnomethodology, the research focuses on the procedural knowledge in use. This knowledge is used to show the underlying social order found in the meeting. The investigation identifies the pairing of what have previously been regarded as separate entities: “Client” and “Worker” as “Client”/“Worker”. This research has implications for our understanding of the silent partner - the client - and the support offered to people constituted as having an intellectual disability.
Digital disability: the social construction of disability in new media
- Authors:
- GOGGIN Gerard, NEWELL Christopher
- Publisher:
- Roman and Littlefield
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 182p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications - such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting - have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers and the disabled themselves.
Tasmania Together?: a disability critique of a social plan
- Authors:
- NEWELL Christopher, WILKINSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(4), June 2003, pp.457-470.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The 'Tasmania Together' social futures plan for Tasmania is critically examined. Authored by a Tasmanian Government appointed Community Leaders Group, on behalf of the people of Tasmania, the plan is supposed to deliver a better Tasmanian society by 2020, based upon community consultation. Rather than a step-forward in democracy, the process serves to remove the democratic rights of people, especially those who are disadvantaged. A critique from a disability perspective is offered, which suggests that this social plan constitutes a form of institutionalised disablism.
Responsible choice: the choice between no choice
- Authors:
- WAREING David, NEWELL Christopher
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.419- 434.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the way 'choice' is constituted by professional and support staff in naturally-occurring-talk within an Australian disability service. That choice is really the choice you have when you are not having a choice, a situation indicative of the wider social milieu and the disablism found in society. Membership Categorisation Analysis is used to highlight the moral reasoning which occurs in the everyday, based upon disablist norms.Critical reflection upon contemporary bioethics is used to suggest that choice as an expression of autonomy is not only contextual, but far more than the hedonistic approach adopted by Western disability services.