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Exploring the divide: illness and disability
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geoff, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 213p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This book is the outcome of a three day conference and seminar to explore the uneasy relationship between medical sociology and disability theory held here at Leeds in April 1995. This event brought together some of the leading figures from both disciplines along with disabled and non-disabled researchers and disability activists from all over the UK.
Disability and the city: international perspectives
- Author:
- IMRIE Rob
- Publisher:
- Paul Chapman
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 200p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
People with disabilities are one of the poorest groups in Western societies. In particular, they lack power, education and opportunities. For most disabled people, their daily reality is dependence on a carer, while trying to survive on state welfare payments. The dominant societal stereotype of disability as a ‘pitiful’ state reinforces the view that people with disabilities are somehow ‘less of disability as a state of marginalization and oppression in the built environment. These concerns are interwoven with a discussion of the changing role of the state in defining, categorising, and (re)producing ‘states of disablement’ for people with disabilities. Focusing primarily on the United Kingdom, although with a substantial discussion of disability and access issues in the USA, the book also considers the role of the ‘design professionals’, architects, planners, and building control officers, in the construction of specific spaces and places, which, literally, lock people with disabilities ‘out’. From the shattered paving stones along the high street, to the absence of induction loops in a civic building, people with disabilities daily negotiate through hostile environments. Using a range of empirical material, the book documents how the environmental planning system in the United Kingdom is attempting to address the inaccessible nature of the built environment for people with disabilities, while discussing how disabled people are contesting the constraints placed upon their mobility.
Everybody in?: the experience of disabled students in colleges of further education
- Authors:
- ASH Angie, et al
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
The authors report on a study of student attitudes towards disabled students in three colleges of further education. They found that many non-disabled students were not aware of the various issues facing disabled students at the colleges. Social contact between disabled and non-disabled students was not extensive, although those who had attended school with disabled pupils were more likely to have friendships with disabled students at college. Whilst non-disabled students were strongly supportive of inclusive education in principle, many saw inclusion in the mainstream as conditional on the particular impairment of an individual. Disabled and non-disabled students supported the view that early social and educational contact results in greater mutual understanding, and is of benefit to all students.
Dual earner parents with disabled children: pressures, needs and supports
- Authors:
- LEWIS Suzan, KAGAN Carolyn, HEATON Patricia
- Publisher:
- Manchester Metropolitan University. Interpersonal and Organisational Development Research Group
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 32p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Family strategies for caregiving and income generation are examined in a qualitative study of employed parents of disabled children in the United Kingdom. Four family patterns for working and caring emerged: modified single earner, one-and-a-half earners, dual earners, and flexible dual earners. A number of social, economic, and ideological factors contributed to decision making for these families. Gender expectations and related ideology of caring were usually the most salient, colouring the meanings ascribed to other influencing factors. Gender assumptions in the wider context underpin the difficulties many families experience in obtaining formal supports. The authors argue that flexible community-based and employer supports are crucial to help parents with disabled children to work and care. Beyond this, however, strategies that challenge gender expectations can extend the range of options available to parents, whereas more traditional approaches perpetuate inequalities and family hardship.