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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.