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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)
Capabilities and disability: the capabilities framework and the social model of disability
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(7), December 2004, pp.735-751.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Seeks to illuminate the complementarity between the capabilities framework, developed by Amartya Sen and others, and the social model of disability. Common themes include the relationship between social barriers and individual limitations, the importance of autonomy and the value of freedom, and dissatisfaction with income as a measure of well-being. Bringing the 2 approaches together has implications for analysis (for example in identifying poverty or disadvantage), and for policy, which are briefly illustrated. Concludes that the capabilities framework provides a more general theoretical framework in which to locate the social model of disability, without compromising any of its central tenets; and the social model provides a thorough-going application of the capabilities framework. Each can benefit from exposure to the other.
Towards an affirmation model of disability
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, FRENCH Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(4), June 2000, pp.569-582.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Argues that a new model of disability is emerging within the literature by disabled people and within disability culture, expressed most clearly by the Disability Arts Movement. This view has arisen in direct opposition to the dominant personal tragedy model of disability and impairment, and builds on the liberatory imperative of the social model. In this analysis the affirmation model addresses the limitations of the social model through the realisation of positive identity encompassing impairment, as well as disability.
Defending the social model
- Authors:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom, WATSON Nicholas
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(2), April 1997, pp.293-300.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the social model of disability and how it has had a limited impact in areas other than disability studies.
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)
Centering social justice in mental health practice: epistemic justice and social work practice
- Author:
- JOHNSTONE Marjorie
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 31(6), 2021, pp.634-643.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article examines how mental health social work practice can move outside the hegemony of the medical model using approaches that honor the centering of social justice. By using the philosophical analysis of epistemic injustice and the ethics of knowing, I move out of the traditional psychiatric and psychological conceptual frameworks and discuss new guiding principles for practice. In the context of the radical tradition in social work and the impetus to blend theory with practice, I consider the use of narrative and anti-oppressive approaches to center social justice principles in individual dyadic work as well as in wider systems family and community work and policy advocacy. I evaluate these approaches through the principles of epistemic justice and discuss the importance of a relational collaborative approach where honoring the client and exploring lived experience are central to both the concepts of testimonial justice, hermeneutic justice and anti-oppressive practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Re-examining relationships between experience, knowledge, ideas and research: a key role for recipients of state welfare and their movements
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Society: International Online Journal, 8(1), 2010, Online only
- Publisher:
- University of Bielefeld
The author discusses the emergence of service user movements in health, welfare and social care. The development of the UK disabled people's movement is used as a case study to illustrate the challenge participatory approaches pose to more traditional approaches of social policy formulation. A critique of the concept of 'care' is provided, and alternative methods
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)
The social model and contextual safeguarding: key messages for practice
- Authors:
- FEATHERSTONE Brid, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Bedfordshire. International Centre
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- Bedford
Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to safeguarding young people from harm they experience in extra-familial contexts. As such it is compatible with, and supports the development of, a range of practice frameworks and models that are being used to improve child protection responses and systems. This briefing explores the relationship between Contextual Safeguarding and the Social Model of Child Protection – and the potential that may exist in bringing these two ideas together to create child protection practices that target the social conditions in which abuse occurs. The briefing is divided into three sections. In section one we summarise the two approaches. In the second section we reflect on what the two approaches share and where they may diverge. In the final section we present how they could work together by use of a case study, and make recommendations for how to explore this potential in the future. The paper argues that there are many opportunities to draw these two approaches together to realise the aims that they share. Building a framework for assessment, or practice more widely, that speaks to both approaches could be a good place to start. A partnership between the two approaches offers a bespoke opportunity to embed a Social Model within Contextual Safeguarding’s on-going project of child protection system reform, and to push Contextual Safeguarding beyond intervention in parks, schools and groups to understanding the complex systems of inequalities that shape the spaces it has traditionally been concerned with. (Edited publisher abstract)