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Epistemological journeys in participatory action research: alliances between community psychology and disability studies
- Authors:
- GOODLEY Dan, LAWTHOM Rebecca
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(2), March 2005, pp.135-151.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper seeks to explore emancipatory disability research possibilities through the use of participatory action research and the cross-fertilisation of ideas between British disability studies (DS) and community psychology (CP). First, the authors consider the psychology in CP and suggest that it is far removed from mainstream psychology's pathological vision of disabled people. Second, they draw on Burrell and Morgan's model of paradigms to interrogate research practice in DS and CP. Third, they compare and contrast research narratives from DS and CP through reference to some examples of our own research. They argue that CP pays particular attention to the development of community selves and cultural identities within the participatory action research process: which the authors feel to be a key concern for the development of an emancipatory DS. Finally they conclude that recognising the radical humanist element of participatory action research (PAR) permits us to navigate an enabling journey for disability research.
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.
Contesting practices, challenging codes: self advocacy, disability politics and the social model
- Author:
- DOWSE Leanne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(1), January 2001, pp.123-141.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper examines the relationship between Self Advocacy and the disability movement in Britain in the light of social movement theory. Using the concept of 'collective identity' as it is explored in social movement theory, the analysis examines why the disability movement's promotion of a strong disabled identity may be difficult to achieve for all its constituents, particularly people with learning difficulties. Additionally the concept of symbolic production within social movement theory is used to explore how the movement uses the social model of disability as its 'collective action frame'. It is argued realignment of this frame is taking place within the movement and is reflected in debates within disability studies about the role of impairment. The voices of people with learning difficulties remain silent in this debate. The paper concludes by arguing for the recognition of social, psychological and cognitive difference as pre-requisite to an inclusive theory and politics of disability.
Law and social work: contemporary issues for practice
- Editors:
- CULL Lesley-Ann, ROCHE Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Palgrave/Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 302p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Divided into three sections, each of which sheds light in different ways on the challenges and critical issues raised at the interface between social work and the law, this text covers issues such as: the relationship between social work values and the law; partnership with service users; risk and professional judgement; human rights; child protection and family support; elder abuse; youth justice; disability and special educational needs; and community care.