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National or local?
- Author:
- BARNES Colin
- Journal article citation:
- National Disability Information Project Newsletter, 11, July 1994, p.1.
Outlines the findings of research which evaluated the services provided by national information providers to local information providers.
Disability, work, and welfare: challenging the social exclusion of disabled people
- Authors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Journal article citation:
- Work Employment and Society, 19(3), September 2005, pp.527-545.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article engages with debates relating to social policy and disabled people’s exclusion from the British labour market. Drawing on recent developments from within the disabled people’s movement, in particular, the concept of independent living and the social model of disability, and the associated disability studies literature, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to disabled people’s exclusion from the workplace is provided. It is argued that analyses of work and disability have failed to address in sufficient depth or breadth the various social and environmental barriers that confront disabled people. It is suggested that a reconfiguration of the meaning of work for disabled people - drawing on and commensurate with disabled people’s perspectives as expressed by the philosophy of independent living - and a social model analysis of their oppression is needed and long overdue.
Disability rights: rhetoric and reality in the UK
- Authors:
- BARNES Colin, OLIVER Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 10(1), 1995, pp.111-116.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
After numerous attempts to get an anti-discrimination bill through Parliament the British Government have finally acknowledged that discrimination against this increasingly large and influential section of the community is a problem which can only be dealt with through legislative means. Presents a brief overview of these developments.
Institutional discrimination against disabled people and the campaign for anti-discrimination legislation
- Author:
- BARNES Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 34, Summer 1992, pp.5-22.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Defines and describes institutional discrimination, discusses the influence of social policy and disabled people's collective response in the form of politicisation and the campaign for anti-discriminatory legislation.
What a difference a decade makes: reflections on doing 'emancipatory' disability research
- Author:
- BARNES Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(1), January 2003, pp.3-17.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article provides a broad-based overview of the development of emancipatory disability research in the UK since its emergence in 1992. Drawing on personal experience in the field, the author responds to several important considerations that need to be addressed before considering adopting this controversial perspective. The paper is divided into two main sections. The first part provides a concise introduction to the thinking that underpins the concept of emancipatory disability research. The second section discusses key elements of this approach including the problem of accountability, the social model of disability, choice of methods and, empowerment, dissemination and outcomes. The paper concludes by suggesting that whilst there has been considerable progress over the last decade the future of emancipatory disability research remains precarious.