To all
Excuse the fact that is yet another question about the social model I am
putting forward, but there is a question which has been bothering me for
some time.
Is the Social model meant to be taken as 'truth' - the way disability
'really' is, or is it put it forward as way to counteract the current
ideology of medicine - an ideology to defeat an ideology, but truth has
nothing to with it.
I ask this because, if it is meant to be the way things 'really' are then
I find it dangerous - I always beware of peole telling the way things
really are - like the medical system telling me disability is really just
something to be cured.
If it is just another ideology, a counter ideology, then that is more
acceptable to me and a fine way to conduct activism. But for me the more
interesting maneouvre is to examine the method and conditions for
'truths' to become established as such in society, and then criticise
those conditions and use the social model for resisting the current
ideology - but be under no pretense that the model is 'true'. Why in
short are quite a few (but not all) disability theorists afraid of
perspectivity of knowledge - it is hardly going deep into the underground
of postmodernism.
Michael
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