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The new politics of disablement
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, BARNES Colin
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 192p.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
The purpose of this second edition is to continue the process of developing a social theory of disability in response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. This process is located within the experience of disabled people and their attempts not only to redefine disability but also to construct a political movement with the potential to contribute to the restructuring of a more equitable and just society fit for all, regardless of the nature and severity of impairment, age, gender, race or sexual preference. The book locates disability within the context of society and social organisations with particular emphasis on the working of the economy, politics and culture. Attention centres on the ways in which both impairment and disability are ‘produced’ as individual and medical problems within capitalist society at both the national and international levels.
Disabled people and social policy: from exclusion to inclusion
- Authors:
- OLIVER Michael, BARNES Colin
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 187p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Provides an introduction to key issues in disability and social policy which have emerged in the light of changing approaches towards disability over the last fifteen years. The concepts of exclusion and inclusion provide the central focus around which the book is organised. Examines the contradictions and dilemmas of state provided welfare; explores the definitions surrounding disability, the historical background to analysis and the development and implications of social policy for disabled people; analyses the social model of disability and the perceptions and attitudes surrounding the meaning of disability within contemporary society; explores the disabled people's movement and the focus on independent living; outlines policy options for empowering disabled people; and includes policy statements written by disabled people and their organisations, various international charters and documents emphasising the rights of disabled people and selected extracts from legislation and policy statements.