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Enabling civil rights
- Author:
- HIRST Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.6.98, 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite fears about delays to disability legislation on grounds of cost, the civil rights agenda looks as if it is back on course. This article explores what will be needed to give the new laws some teeth - and the implications for social services departments.
Power to people with disabilities: empowerment issues in employment programming
- Authors:
- NEATH Jeanne, SCHRINER Kay
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.217-228.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Argues that the view of employment which focuses exclusively or primarily on increasing the personal or individual power of people with disabilities violates the spirit of the disability rights movement, which is a political movement organising for social change. Examples of employment programmes based in power are described, including self-managed work crews and businesses owned and operated co-operatively by people with learning disabilities.
Material world?
- Author:
- REID Harry
- Journal article citation:
- Scope, October 1998, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
People with disabilities have more than just the barriers of the external world to cope with. They have the emotional and psychological issues of their disability and the world's reaction to it to deal with. The author, from the DART Project, asks if organisations dealing with disability are really taking a holistic approach to the needs of disabled people.
'Out of place', knowing one's place': space, power and the exclusion of disabled people
- Author:
- KITCHIN Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(3), June 1998, pp.343-356.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Disabled people are marginalised and excluded from 'mainstream' society. In general, our understanding of the processes of exclusion is grounded in time and history. This article argues that space, as well as time, is instrumental in reproducing and sustaining disablist practices. Spaces are currently organised to keep disabled people 'in their place' and 'written' to convey to disabled people that they are 'out of place'. Contends that an understanding of society's reaction to, and the experiences of, disability should be framed within an approach that combines a spatialised political economy with social constructivism. Unlike neo-Marxist approaches this approach is centred on notions of power rather than capital. Using this approach, the spatialities of disability are explored.
Listening to the voices of individuals with disabilities
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, BRICOUT John C., BASKIND Frank R.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 79(2), March 1998, pp.188-196.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Discusses how social work literature, research, and practice on disabilities has lagged behind other topical areas dealing with oppressed groups. Presents a social work literature search and analysis as well as interviews with six individuals with disabilities about their experiences with social workers. Individuals with disabilities assert that they were treated as though they had categorically fewer aspirations, abilities, and perhaps even fundamental rights than did non-disabled people. Provides a base for follow-up research on models of consumer-focused social worker practice in the area of disability.
Challenging the image: the involvement of young people with disabilities in volunteering and campaigning
- Authors:
- ROKER Debi, PLAYER Katie, COLEMAN John
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(5), November 1998, pp.725-741.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article describes research which aimed to highlight the contribution that young people with disabilities make to their communities, by focusing on their participation in volunteering and campaigning. It describes the range of voluntary and campaigning activities being undertaken by young people with disabilities, highlights the effects of participation on the young people and those around them, and identifies issues for organisations wishing to enable more young people with disabilities to participate in this way.
Discourse and resistance in care assessment: integrated living and community care
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 28(5), October 1998, pp.659-673.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Illustrates how value conflicts between the competing philosophies of community care and integrated living are played out at a micro level. The experiences of service users in Derbyshire show how the process of care assessment can perpetuate traditional discourses of disability based on dependency, individualisation and segregation. By contrast, self-assessment within an integrated living approach opens up new possibilities for resistance through the supported self-empowerment of service users. Moreover, the participation of disabled people in managing their own affairs challenges established cultural values about the role of disabled people in society.
Changing perceptions
- Author:
- BENN Melissa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.9.98, 1998, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how the 1990s have seen the emergence of a coalition of disabled groups who, by expressing their experiences and anger, have changed attitudes towards them.
A significant other
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.8.98, 1998, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes the project from the USA that is using innovative techniques of adult mentoring for vulnerable people.
Deaf and disabled, or deafness disabled: towards a human rights perspective
- Author:
- CORKER Mairian
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 175p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Uses a multidisciplinary, post-modernist approach to the search for an inclusive framework for understanding deafness and disability, which aims to liberate the political potential of socio-cultural diversity and develop our thinking about disability as a form of social oppression.