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Disability as a phenomenon: a discourse of social and biological understanding
- Author:
- HEDLUND Marianne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.765-780.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This Swedish article addresses conceptualisations of disability and what it constitutes as a category in a social security system. It argues that the conceptualisation of disability involves a discourse about definitions, and discusses which domains of interest are produced by each of these understandings. The article argues that, rather than approaching the biological understanding as representing an antiquated concept to disability and the social model as a modern conceptualisation, these understandings are competitive. This makes disability into a flexible and heterogeneous concept, a term difficult to give a specified and limited meaning.
The long and winding road: a history of disability and disabled people
- Editor:
- MILLINGTON P.
- Publisher:
- Disability West Midlands
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
The history plots landmark events and trends in the development of disability issues and the disabled people's movement, from ancient times when disabled people were viewed as objects of charity and pity to the emergence of the social model of disability and the disabled people's movement in the present day. The author has expanded the history to include a wider range of personal, medical and other historical landmarks. The emphasis has therefore changed from one that is exclusively related to the social theory of disability.
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.
'What matters to me is not what you're talking about' - maintaining the social model of disability in 'public and private' negotiations
- Authors:
- BECKETT Clare, WRIGHTON Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(7), December 2000, pp.991-999.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Moving from a medical to a social model of individual disability is a political process of change with implications for understanding of and relationship to borders between individual, social life and political participation. This process has echoes in the conceptual experience of change through movement for women's liberation and gay liberation. Conceptualisation of a public/private divide has been identified in both these movements, and can also be used productively to further the use of a social model of disability. In this way, public change in status and participation can be linked to private defeat of barriers to public and political participation. This article identifies some uses of conceptualising public and private as a way of locating service provision within a social model of disability.
Understanding disability: from theory to practice
- Author:
- OLIVER Michael
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 218p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Collection of essays discussing recent and perennial issues concerned with disabled people. Interwoven with the authors personal experiences, he looks at citizenship, community care, social policy and welfare, education, rehabilitation, the politics of new social movements and the international context. The book is a personal exploration as well as an attempt to take further the theoretical understanding of disability.
Disability rights and wrongs
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 232p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that social model theory has reached a dead end. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarisations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people; identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics; bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life, and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies; and care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship. This stimulating and accessible book challenges orthodoxies in British disability studies, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.
Controversial issues in a disabling society
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, FRENCH Sally, CAMERON Colin
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 198p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Examines the consequences of the social model of disability. From this point of view society is itself at fault, that is a disabling society that is geared to, built for and by, and controlled by non-disabled people. This exclusion of disabled people is created and constructed in every aspect of living including language, thinking, the built environment and power structures and regulations. This model asserts that whether one is disabled or not, one lives within a 'disabling society'.