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The social model of disability: An outdated ideology?
Torn Shakespeare,Nick Watson +1 more
- Vol. 2
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This article explore the background to British academic and political debates over the social model, and argue that the time has come to move beyond this position and to a more adequate social theory of disability.Abstract:
The papers explore the background to British academic and political debates over the social model, and argue that the time has come to move beyond this position. Three central criticisms of the British social model are presented, focusing on: the issue of impairment; the impairment/disability dualism; and the issue of identity. It is suggested that an embodied ontology offers the best starting point for disability studies, and some signposts on the way to a more adequate social theory of disability are provided.read more
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Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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How is disability understood? An examination of sociological approaches
TL;DR: In this article, the sociological understandings of what constitutes disability are examined and compared, using selected articles from leading authors in each discipline as case studies, concluding with some reflections on the need to revive a social relational understanding of disability.
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Disability, work, and welfare challenging the social exclusion of disabled people
Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to disabled people's exclusion from the workplace is provided, and it is argued that a reconfiguration of the meaning of work for disabled people - drawing on and commensurate with disabled people' perspectives as expressed by the philosophy of independent living - and a social model analysis of their oppression is needed and long overdue.
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What's so ‘critical’ about critical disability studies?
TL;DR: The authors self-reflexively turns the focus on disability studies to consider why critical disability studies (CDS) is emerging as the preferred nomenclature and whether this constitutes a radica...
What's So "Critical" about Critical Disability Studies?
TL;DR: The authors self-reflexively turns the focus on disability studies to consider why critical disability studies (CDS) is emerging as the preferred nomenclature and whether this constitutes a radica...
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TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as mentioned in this paper are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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Culture and Imperialism
TL;DR: From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, this is an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.