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The 'normal' and the monstrous in disability research
- Author:
- CLEAR Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(4), July 1999, pp.435-448.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article contributes to the ongoing discussion of doing and writing disability research by revisiting research as politics, exposing the meeting point of modern and post-modern approaches, and proposing a stronger materiality, and reintegration of theory and practice. The implications are that a personalised approach is needed to explore critically across disciplinary boundaries, beyond unilateral discourse into assumed knowledge. Discusses some key approaches, which when taken together support critical exploration.
Doing disability research: activist lives and the academy
- Authors:
- GOODLEY Dan, MOORE Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(6), October 2000, pp.861-882.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The authors re-present a paper given at a conference on the performing arts of people with 'learning difficulties', where the audience was made up of performers, workers, providers and researchers. This paper attempted to be accessible, theoretical, political and practical. Secondly, the authors reflect upon this paper in relation to seven points of analysis that emerge at the boundaries of disability politics and disability research. Argues throughout that real efforts must be made to bridge these boundaries in ways that augment disability theory and politics together.
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.
Researching others: epistemology, experience, standpoints and participation
- Authors:
- FAWCETT Barbara, HEARN Jeff
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 7(3), July 2004, pp.201-218.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article examines the possibility and challenges of carrying out research, especially qualitative and ethnographically-orientated research, into areas such as gender, disability, ethnicity and racialization, without the researcher having direct experience of those specific social divisions and oppressions. Discussion of these questions is framed by four differential understandings of the concept of 'otherness' and linked with debates in the areas of research methodology, epistemology, ontology and research practices. Issues of experience, 'standpoint' and participation are specifically focused on. The resulting discussion leads to the conclusion that in 'researching others' attention has to be paid to historical context and to the maintenance of a critical relation to the research topic. A sustaining focus on the self-reflexivity of the researcher as author and the continual interrogation of the social bases of knowledge, together with a detail understanding of political agendas, are also important. In paying attention to these aspects of research, materialism and critical discourse analysis are to be seen as part of the same broad socio-political project rather than as opposing and mutually exclusive perspectives.
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.
Practice and research in social work: postmodern feminist perspectives
- Editors:
- FAWCETT Barbara, et al
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 212p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: postmodernity and postmodern feminism; disability; a postmodern perspective on professional ethics; deconstructing and reconstructing professional expertise; mothers' violence; profeminist men's narratives; and representations of families.