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Towards an affirmation model of disability
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, FRENCH Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(4), June 2000, pp.569-582.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Argues that a new model of disability is emerging within the literature by disabled people and within disability culture, expressed most clearly by the Disability Arts Movement. This view has arisen in direct opposition to the dominant personal tragedy model of disability and impairment, and builds on the liberatory imperative of the social model. In this analysis the affirmation model addresses the limitations of the social model through the realisation of positive identity encompassing impairment, as well as disability.
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.
Disabled people, health professionals and the social model of disability: can there be a research relationship
- Author:
- BRICHER Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.781-793.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The social model of disability is proposed as an alternative to models that have viewed disability as an individual, rather than a socio-political issue. The use of this model to guide both research theory and practice is proposed in order to equalise research power relationships, and involve and empower disabled people. Health professionals have traditionally reinforced the medical model of disability in both research and practice, and this has been seen as contributing to the oppression and marginalisation of disabled people. Argues that if the social model is to achieve wider dissemination, it is important to develop a dialogue between disabled people and health professionals. Concludes that it is essential to look at ways in which disabled people and health professionals can work together to overcome the oppression and marginalisation that has been limited to the provision of health services.
Researching disability politics, or, some problems with the social model in practice
- Author:
- HUMPHREY Jill C.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(1), January 2000, pp.63-85.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article arises from a research project involving the disabled members' group in UNISON, and problematises the social model which explicitly undergirds the discourses and practices of this group. Explains that there are dangers that the social model can be interpreted in a way which privileges some impaired identities over others. Explores these dangers with reference to stories of impaired people who believe they are excluded from the disabled members' group and the culture of suspicion surrounding academics, particularly the 'non-disabled' researcher as a would-be ally.
'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.
Oppression within the counselling room
- Author:
- REEVE Donna
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(4), June 2000, pp.669-682.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Suggests that the oppression experienced by disabled people in society is sometimes replayed in the counselling room by counsellors who are unaware of their own disablist attitudes and prejudices. Argues that whilst the provision of Disability Equality Training (DET) within counselling courses would ameliorate the problem, disabled people would be most empowered by a counselling approach which recognises the potential for oppression within the counsellor-client relationship. Puts forward disability counselling, which includes the social model of disability as one of the foundations. An alternative solution may be found within the emerging counselling approaches that threat counselling as a social and political process and place emphasis on developing comprehensive anti-discriminatory practice.
Interviewing non-disabled people about their disability-related attitudes: seeking methodologies
- Author:
- TREGASKIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.343-353.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Within the field of disability studies there has been a concentration upon the representation of disabled people's experiences within a social context. However, research into non-disabled people's perspectives on disability and impairment has traditionally been based upon a psychologically-driven individualist model of disability which sees disabled people uncritically as 'the problem'. In this apparent epistemological divide, little work has been done on the exploration of non-disabled people's perspectives from a social model angle. This paper outlines a current study of the formation of such perspectives, and specifically explores the methodological conditioners of such an enquiry.