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Exploring how the social model of disability can be re-invigorated: in response to Mike Oliver
- Author:
- LEVITT Jonathan M.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 32(4), 2017, pp.589-594.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In his 2013 article in Disability & Society, Oliver recommended that the social model should either be replaced or re-invigorated. In this article, the author argues that the social model’s current emphasis reflects the social conditions in which it was introduced, and that the model’s impact on disabled people’s lives would increase if its emphasis was to more accurately reflect the current social conditions in the geographical regions in which it is applied. In order to help foster its re-invigoration, the author ask five questions for discussion on the way forward for the social model. The questions were identified through examining published writing on the scope of the social model and on the model’s relationship with other models of disability. (Edited publisher abstract)
The social model of disability as an oppositional device
- Authors:
- BECKETT Angharad E., CAMPBELL Tomas
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 30(2), 2015, pp.270-283.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article engages with debates about the UK Disabled People’s Movement’s ‘Big Idea’ – the social model of disability – positioning this as an ‘oppositional device’. This concept is adapted from the work of the art theorist and activist Brian Holmes, elaborated using insights from Foucault and others. The model’s primary operation is introducing contingency into the present, facilitating disabled people’s resistance-practices. The authors recognise, however, that the device can operate in a disciplinary manner when adopted by a machinery of government. Whilst the primary goal is to understand the character and operation of the social model, by providing a more general definition of an oppositional device as the concrete operation of technologies of power, the authors also propose a concept potentially useful for the analysis of the resistance-practices of activists involved in a wide variety of struggles. This concept may thus have implications for wider social and political analysis. (Edited publisher abstract)
A contribution towards a possible re-invigoration of our understanding of the social model of disability’s potential
- Author:
- IACOVOU Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 36(7), 2021, pp.1169-1185.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
There has been published work in Disability & Society showing that the social model of disability may be re-invigorated if its emphasis reflects current social conditions and their specific context and if relevant questions are applied to specific impairment labels by each country. In this paper, I further address the issue of terminologies, concerning the notions of impairment, disability, the social model, as well as some terms with negative connotations surrounding these notions. I argue that, in attempting to detangle part of language’s complexity, it may be important to re-focus on the dynamic nature of relevant chameleon-like terminologies and their impact on attitudes towards disability, which seem to be prolonged. This scope, when coupled to a clearer focus on a materialist approach to disability, may act as a catalyst towards a re-invigoration of our understanding of the social model’s potential. (Edited publisher abstract)
A sociological treatment exploring the medical model in relation to the neurodiversity movement with reference to policy and practice
- Authors:
- CASANOVA Emily L., WIDMAN Cheryl J.
- Journal article citation:
- Evidence and Policy, 17(2), 2021, pp.363-381.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Background: The Medical Model of disability focuses on diagnosed conditions. It is used in policy particularly to categorise people. This enables predictions and forecasting about the size of policy needs but tends to homogenise disability representations, assigning a negative evaluation to illness that may be irrespective of patho-anatomical correlates. The Social Model considers disability as imposed by society through attitudes and barriers. The Neurodiversity Model is a type of social and cultural model with biological implications; it states that differences in brain and behaviour lie on a non-pathological spectrum. Critics say this whitewashes lived experience. Policymakers may devalue the Neurodiversity Model’s origins within activist neurodiverse communities. The model that policy and practice decision makers use has fundamental effects on their impacts. Aims and objectives: The Medical and Neurodiversity Models are reviewed in reference to their politicisation as ways to characterise disability, and identity politics. The implications socially and for disability policy and practice and evidence use are considered. Key conclusions: Both models fall short in addressing the needs of the broad community of the disabled, yet both have useful features. We propose the Biological Gradient Model (BGM), which integrates scientific theory while avoiding pathology-based concepts and value-laden judgments concerning ‘deficiency’. Its usefulness is demonstrated; it resolves some of the ambiguity and tensions that exist in the way people with disability are viewed by different groups and treated within policy. It has the potential to reduce issues of partial representation, where the voices of those who cannot self-advocate may be less heard. (Edited publisher abstract)
Why we do not need a ‘stronger’ social model of disability
- Author:
- RIDDLE Christopher A.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 35(9), 2020, pp.1509-1513.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Recent calls to amend the social model of disability to articulate and defend a broader set of rights for people with disabilities should be met with critical reflection. For example, Berghs et al. suggest a move to a ‘stronger’ social model - one that acts as a response to the threats against disabled people’s human rights. While the article brings to the forefront the many violations of human rights present in the lives of people with disabilities, it nonetheless mischaracterizes the solution. While people with disabilities do face tremendous injustices, many of which can rightly be thought of as violations of human rights, the proper target of our concern should be on how we conceptualize the notions of equality and justice to inform sound policy, and not on how we model the experience of disability. I suggest these arguments put the cart before the horse. (Edited publisher abstract)
Do disabled people need a stronger social model: a social model of human rights?
- Authors:
- BERGHS Maria, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 34(7-8), 2019, pp.1034-1039.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The paper introduces the social model of disability by reflecting on its origins and legacy, with particular reference to the work of the Union of the Physically Impaired against Segregation. The paper argues that there has been a gradual rolling back of the rights and entitlements associated with the social model of disability. Yet no alternative for the social model has been proposed in response to such threats to disabled people’s human rights. Disabled people need a stronger social model that acts as a means to a society which enables and ensures their rights; the right to live a dignified life, as well as to live in an environment that enables people to flourish with disability. (Edited publisher abstract)
Turning experience into theory: the affirmation model as a tool for critical Praxis
- Author:
- CAMERON Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 17(3), 2014, pp.108-121.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
In this article the author discusses the affirmation model, initially proposed by Swain and French (2000), as an intervention in an ongoing debate within disability studies around the usefulness of the social model. The purpose of developing models, such as the social and affirmation models, and identify the lack of definitions in Swain and French’s original suggestion as an inherent weakness are considered and the author then outlines his own research, undertaken with the aim of identifying whether useful affirmation model definitions might be fashioned. The author's conclusions are related to Freire’s idea of critical Praxis. Finally the author concludes by proposing the affirmation model as a practical tool for use by social workers to identify the ways in which disabling social relations are reproduced in everyday encounters. (Edited publisher abstract)
Madness, distress and the politics of disablement
- Editors:
- SPANDLER Helen, ANDERSON Jill, SAPEY Bob
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 320
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability. Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, especially since the inclusion of psychosocial disability in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This book is aimed at policy makers, practitioners, activists and academics. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social models of disability and social work in the twenty-first century
- Author:
- STEVENS Andy R. A.
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 2(2), July 2008, pp.197-202.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
The author states that he has been involved with the disability rights movement for over 20 years and has seen many changes in the acceptance of its ideas in the care professions. The social model of disability is now a required ethical standpoints of personal social services and many other development services towards disabled people in England. The influence of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and public authorities' Disability Equality Duty, which came into force in December 2006, are discussed, as are the changing social model, the social model and welfare professionals, and diverse social model approaches, concluding that this constitutes an ethical issue for all involved.
The global COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor: implementation, findings, disability studies response
- Authors:
- MLADENOV Teodor, BRENNAN Ciara
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 36(8), 2021, pp.1356-1361.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The global COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (COVID-19 DRM) has revealed major injustices suffered by disabled people around the world during the first stage of the pandemic, including enhanced institutionalisation, breakdown of essential services in the community, multiplication of intersectional harms, and denial of access to healthcare. This paper presents an overview of the COVID-19 DRM and its findings. This paper also offers a disability studies response by making recourse to the social model of disability, independent living philosophy, and analyses of biopolitics. This paper argues that the COVID-19 DRM illuminates systemic flaws that predate the pandemic, and that it is these flaws that need to be addressed in post-pandemic efforts at reconstruction. (Edited publisher abstract)