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Implementing the social model of disability: theory and research
- Editors:
- BARNES Colin, MERCER Geof
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This book contains 13 chapters on the theoretical and research implications of the social model of disability. Over the last three decades disability activists have established the social model of disability as a comprehensive critique of mainstream academic theories and policy approaches. The contributors, including established figures and newcomers to the field, raise a number of important controversies and concerns central to theorising and researching disability in the 21st century. Taken together they provide ample testimony to the continuing vitality of debates around the social model in disability studies.
Handbook of disability studies
- Editor:
- ALBRECHT Gary L.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 852p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
This handbook of disability studies signals the emergence of a new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world, the book outlines critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. The volume is divided into three sections: the shaping of disability studies as a field; experiencing disability; and, disability in context.
Disability/postmodernity: embodying disability theory
- Editors:
- CORKER Marian, SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Publisher:
- Continuum
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 249p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book offers a bridge between social science perspectives on disability (predominant in disability studies in the UK for example) and humanities perspectives (which dominate the US approach). The authors aim to demystify the concept of postmodernity and to suggest ways in which it fosters a holistic approach to the study of disability that better represents and reflects the complexity of disabled people's experience. The book opens with an exploration of theoretical perspectives, looking especially at the body and at concepts of difference and identity. The second section deals with culture, discussing aesthetics, narrative, film, architecture and design, while the final section explores social practice, discussing issues which include disabled children's perspectives, sexual identity and 'madness and distress.'
Social movements, social justice and social work
- Author:
- THOMPSON Neil
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 32(6), September 2002, pp.711-722.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article explores the relationship between social movements, social justice and social work. It examines the role of social movements in promoting social justice and considers the influences of such movements in the development of emancipatory forms of social work practice. It also considers the question of whether social work can be viewed as a form of social movement in its own right. A central theme of the article is the fundamental tension between social work as a force for social regulation and as a force for social development and emancipation.