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Disabled people: active or passive citizens - reflections from the Malaysian experience
- Author:
- JAYASOORIA Denison
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(3), June 1999, pp.341-352.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The concept of citizenship has once again entered centre-stage in the debate among political philosophers, welfare theorists and activists. Looks at the Malaysian experience of disabled people within a newly-industrialising country and how this draws a lesson on how a disadvantaged section of Malaysian society struggle to enhance their rights as citizens of the nation and a share of the nations wealth. While there are difficult challenges, there are also positive indicators for the active citizenship participation of disabled people among fellow Malaysians.
From welfare to citizenship: participation and empowerment in disability organisations
- Author:
- ACHESON Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Scope, November 2001, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
This article looks at new research which examines the issues of participation and empowerment in organisations addressing disability. Asks how well-equipped service provider organisations are to promote citizenship and inclusion and whether voluntary organisations are changing to reflect the view that disabled people should acquire greater control over the services they use.
Unequal partners: user groups and community care
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 114p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Empirical study looking at user groups and 'officials' in two policy areas: mental health and disability. Examines the strategies user groups adopt to seek their objectives, and explores conceptual issues relating to notions of consumerism and citizenship. Discusses the way in which self organisation may be supported without being controlled by officials in statutory agencies, highlighting the need to understand and distinguish between user self organisation and user involvement. Concludes that if policy makers are genuinely committed to greater user involvement in design, planning and delivery of services, then user self organisation needs to be both encouraged and supported without being subsumed into 'management'.
Effective consumers and active citizens: strategies for users' influence on service and beyond
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, SHARDLOW Polly
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 14(1), 1996, pp.33-38.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Draws on research undertaken as part of the ESRC Local Governance Programme investigating the objectives and strategies of mental health service users' and disabled people's groups. It distinguishes between strategies based on 'consumerism' and those based on 'citizenship' and provides examples of practical achievements by, as well as barriers to the influence of, service user activists.
Users as citizens: collective action and the local governance of welfare
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 33(1), March 1999, pp.73-90.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Drawing on theories of new social movements and of citizenship, this article considers the developing place of user organisations within systems of local governance. It looks at the way in which groups have sought to assert the legitimacy both of experimental knowledge and of their position as citizens in the face of official responses which have constructed them as self-interested pressure groups. It draws on empirical research investigating local groups of disabled people and of mental health service users conducted in the first part of the 1990s. The article considers likely future roles for groups comprising of people often excluded from community.
Community care, ideology and social policy
- Author:
- COWEN Harry
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 262p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Hemel Hempstead
Offers a comprehensive evaluation of community care strategies within the context of government social policy, and assesses the shifts in political power from Conservative to Labour towards the end of the century. Includes chapters on: the history of community care; health services and community care policy; social services, community care and the market; older people and community care; disabled people; mental health, homelessness and housing policies; women and community care; black and minority ethnic groups; and citizenship, participation and community care.
Youth in society: contemporary theory, policy and practice
- Editors:
- ROCHE Jeremy, TUCKER Stanley
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 270p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Offers a wide ranging and critical overview of the analyses and debates surrounding young people in the UK today. Addresses the following themes and issues: citizenship, participation and empowerment; social difference and social identity; images of youth; young people and the politics of service provision; and working with young people in different contexts.
Users, officials and citizens in health and social care
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Policy Making, 22(4), March 1996, pp.9-17.
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Institute of Local Government Studies
Looks at the empowerment of public service users from the point of view of groups of disabled people and people with mental health problems, and the 'officials' (purchasers and providers of health and social care services and politicians) with whom they come into contact. This article focuses on the way in which both user groups and officials view the notion of citizenship and its relationship to empowerment.
Critical social policy: a reader
- Editor:
- TAYLOR David
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 251p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Addresses key issues in social policy, representing a social relations of welfare perspective in the journal Critical Social Policy over the last 15 years. Highlights issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability and age as central to the analysis of welfare. These social relations are shown to underpin questions of need, empowerment and social citizenship. The contributors raise questions about universal and particular arguments for welfare and suggest ways in which welfare strategies may begin to overcome the traditional dichotomies between rights and needs. Argues that the social relations of welfare must be seen as mutually constituting and as the context within which strategies of inclusion and exclusion from welfare must be understood.
Disabling barriers: enabling environments
- Editors:
- SWAIN John, et al
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 319p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that 'disability' is caused by the way society is organised and that numerous social, structural and economic barriers deny people with disabilities the opportunity of full citizenship and equal opportunities. Critically reviews professional practice and describes alternative models of support which give disabled people control over their own lives.