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Social justice and disabled people: principles and challenges
- Authors:
- GOODLAD Robina, RIDDELL Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 4(1), January 2005, pp.45-54.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Social justice is a policy aim of the UK Labour government. This paper considers the applicability of the concept to disability, seeking to establish principles for conceptualising social justice and disability and considering the nature of the challenges for public policy and society posed by this conceptualisation. The paper considers how disability is implicated in two types of claims about the source of social injustice: those concerned with socially constructed differences between people; and those arising from material inequalities. Appropriate values underpinning alternative conceptions of social justice are discussed and tensions in policymaking considered.
Disability, politics and the struggle for change
- Editor:
- BARTON Len
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 184p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book seeks to explore how disability is understood and the position and experiences of disabled people both within and across different societies. The question of politics is explored in relation to specific struggles, providing insights and ideas for further exploration. The authors examine the social model of disability, criticising exclusionary barriers while progressing the realisation of a more democratic and participatory society based on principles of equality.
Negotiating psycho-emotional dimensions of disability and their influence on identity constructions
- Author:
- REEVE Donna
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(5), August 2002, pp.493-508.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article uses Foucault's concept of 'technologies of power' to explore the ways in which the psycho-emotional dimensions of disability are created and maintained within society. The manner in which gaze and self-surveillance operate on the bodies of people with impairments to leave them feeling worthless, unattractive and stressed is considered, and the effects of impairment on these processes are also discussed. However disabled people are not simply passive victims of this form of emotional disablism. The manner in which disabled people resist the negative stereotypes is described and the process of 'coming out' as a disabled person is offered as an example of a 'technology of the self'.
Disability Rights Commission: annual review 2001-2002
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
Annual review of the Disability Rights Commission, an independent body established by Act of Parliament to eliminate the discrimination faced by disabled people and to promote equality of opportunity. When disabled people participate as citizens, customers and employees everyone benefits. Therefore the Disability Rights Commission has set itself the goal of promoting "a society where all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens".
Completing the story: connecting relational and psychological processes of exclusion
- Author:
- VECK Wayne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(5), August 2002, pp.529-540.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article describes how the author's approach to investigating youth transitions and social exclusion, shifted when conducting a case study about a mature student in transition from a further education college. Having relayed the findings of a study about his experiences of social exclusion, the author reveals how he began to know the client in his own right, to grasp his feelings and views about his life, and to show how this caused his client to become a participator in and not merely the subject of the study about his life.