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In or out of the mainstream: lessons from research on disability and development cooperation
- Editors:
- ALBERT Bill, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Disability Press
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 210p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The Department for International Development (DFID) funded Disability Knowledge and Research Programme was the most ambitious project ever mounted on disability and development. At its heart was a series of 23 research projects. Some of these were done with non-disabled allies, others by individual disabled researchers and others from a collaborative effort between disabled colleagues in the South and the North. All embrace the social model of disability and most are concerned with understanding the impact of external interventions on lives of poor disabled people in the South. This collection is made up of 13 chapters reworked by the authors from their reports. While there is a strong focus on the mainstreaming of disability, a wide range of topics are considered, including; education, the impact of domestic disability legislation, the Ugandan PRSP process, the role of foreign NGOs in Mozambique, disability statistics, poverty and disability, the social model and development and participatory rural appraisal in Cambodia.
Fighting discrimination through litigation in the UK: the social model of disability and the EU anti discrimination directive
- Author:
- VANHALA Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 21(5), August 2006, pp.551-565.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The enactment of British and European legislation establishing rights for disabled people is an important step in combating discrimination and social exclusion. However, rights remain empty promises if they are not enforced. Litigation and test case strategies have become an important way of enforcing rights. This article explores why organizations might turn to the courts to achieve their policy goals and finds that this phenomenon is best explained not by the creation of legal bases or an expanding legal opportunity structure but rather by the adoption of the social, civil-rights model of disability by the disability movement. The social model, with its emphasis on individual rights, equality and reasonable accommodation laid the foundation for litigation strategies. Litigation is able to reduce exclusion through long-term socialization of norms of equality and through the short and medium-term creation of incentives which encourage individuals to end discriminatory practices.
Toward a holistic view of health and health promotion in social work with people with disabilities
- Authors:
- KIM Kyung Mee, CANDA Edward R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 5(2), 2006, pp.49-67.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The individual medically oriented model of disability suggests that people with disabilities seldom achieve health and wellness because of their impairments and disabilities. This paper provides an alternative to the tendency in social work to focus on the medicalization of disability without a due consideration of the social context. It draws insights from the social model that asserts disability is a form of social restriction encountered by people with disabilities and that social barriers of disability must be removed through collective action. Also, this model posits that people with disabilities can be healthy if the barriers preventing good health are removed. However, medical aspects of a person with a disability should not be forsaken entirely. Therefore, this article proposes a holistic view that converges insights of the individual and social models toward a better understanding of health issues for people with disabilities. It shows the implications for social work that follow from the convergence. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Spaces of sobriety/sites of power: examining social model alcohol recovery programs as therapeutic landscapes
- Authors:
- WILTON Robert, DEVERTEUIL Geoffrey
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 63(3), August 2006, pp.649-661.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
While there has been interest in geographical variations in alcohol use and their implications for health, similar attention has not been given to geographies of alcohol treatment and recovery. This paper is concerned with exploring these geographies of alcohol recovery and treatment. Specifically, the paper uses the therapeutic landscape concept coupled with Foucault's concept of governmentality to frame a qualitative case study of a ‘social model’ recovery community in San Pedro, California. Analysis of the programs operating in San Pedro consisting of observation and interviews, demonstrates the complexity and contradictory character of such recovery landscapes. In particular, the governmentality perspective suggests that spaces created for alcohol recovery and support can be simultaneously understood as sites designed to govern the health-related conduct of individuals. Within programs, clients were provided with support and encouragement from staff and peers, but these same relations also made possible surveillance and the governing of daily routines. In the neighbourhood, program staff intervened to create ‘healthy’ spaces but these interventions also shaped the conduct of local residents and contributed to the spatial regulation of problem groups. While a focus on governmentality does not preclude recognition of the positive effects associated with therapeutic landscapes, it does provide an opportunity for further consideration of the complexities underlying such environments
Disability and disaster recovery: a tale of two cities?
- Authors:
- PRIESTLEY Mark, HEMINGWAY Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 5(3/4), 2006, pp.23-42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper examines the connections between disability and disaster from a global perspective. Concepts from the research and policy literature are used to distinguish between individual and social models of disability, and between natural hazards and human disasters. These concepts are then employed to investigate data on the response to disabled people's recovery needs in two recent case studies: the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. The analysis combines primary, secondary and tertiary sources to explore disability issues in the reconstruction of inclusive communities and the lessons that may be learned about disaster preparedness in poor communities. The conclusions suggest that more attention should be paid to social model approaches, particularly in understanding global links with poverty, and that disabled people's organisations should be resourced as agents of disaster recovery and preparedness. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Disability rights and wrongs
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 232p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that social model theory has reached a dead end. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarisations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people; identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics; bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life, and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies; and care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship. This stimulating and accessible book challenges orthodoxies in British disability studies, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.