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Implementing the social model of disability: theory and research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This book contains 13 chapters on the theoretical and research implications of the social model of disability. Over the last three decades disability activists have established the social model of disability as a comprehensive critique of mainstream academic theories and policy approaches. The contributors, including established figures and newcomers to the field, raise a number of important controversies and concerns central to theorising and researching disability in the 21st century. Taken together they provide ample testimony to the continuing vitality of debates around the social model in disability studies.
Doing disability research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Looks at key issues and problems in translating disability theory into research. Questions addressed include: breaking the researcher-researched hierarchy; involving disabled people; ownership and control; disability research funding; measuring disability barriers; research and the survivors' movement; narrative approaches; researching sexuality, multiple oppression, abuse and violence; and researching disability in non-European contexts.
The social model of disability: Europe and the majority world
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof, eds.
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 218p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Over the last three decades disability activists and writers have advocated the social model of disability as a comprehensive critique of orthodox academic and administrative approaches to the understanding and development of social policy for disabled people. This book contains thirteen chapters on the application of social model inspired thinking outside Britain. Contributors include academics, activists and practitioners. They raise several important issues and concerns central to theorising and applying social model insights to 'developed' and majority world countries. Examples include emerging debates within the European Union, including transport, law and citizenship, with case studies of France, Sweden and Disabled Peoples' International. Focus on the majority world covers human rights and development strategies, user led initiatives and community based rehabilitation with case studies of Bangladesh and Egypt.
Disability policy and practice: applying the social model
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 216p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This book contains thirteen chapters on the application of social model inspired thinking to social policy in Britain. The contributors raise a range of important issues and concerns central to theorising and researching disability policy and practice spanning employment, housing, higher education with examples from England, Scotland, and Wales, social ‘care’, independent living and leisure and social relations. Together they provide ample evidence of the continuing relevance of debates emanating from the social model of disability within disability studies and related disciplines. This book will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, professionals, disabled people and lay audiences with an interest in disability issues and the on going struggle for a more equitable and just society.
The nature of care in a multi-racial community: summary report of an investigation of the support for black ethnic minority persons after discharge from psychiatric hospitals in Bradford and Leeds
- Editors:
- BAYLIES Carolyn, LAW Ian, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. School of Sociology and Social Policy
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 20p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Summary report from a project which aimed to: evaluate the provision of housing, support and aftercare services to black and minority ethnic people with mental health problems; to investigate the role of carers and support networks; to look at the extent to which the planning and provision of community based mental health services take account of the needs of black and minority ethnic people; and to document and encourage the development of positive initiatives to improve service provision.