on 27/10/00 4:17 pm, Glenn Smith at [log in to unmask] wrote:
Have a look at the chapter by Lee Ann Marks and Melinda Jones in
'Disability, Divers-ability and Legal Change' Martinus: Ninjhoff, 1999
Mairian
> I think it can to a point, but if you want to challenge 'essences' of
> humanity that can form the basis for human rights laws, then you may have
> problems in shifting who is included and excluded from a social
> understanding of disability that can also captured by a set of core rights
> that define being human.
>
> It is a problem of long standing in how a set of essential human rights can
> bridge different cultures without transgressing cultural differences. On
> the one hand I do believe that a set of human rights could avoid many
> people who experience cultural prejudice because they are disabled, to be
> stigmatised. On the other, they are difficult to formulate without
> essentialising to how people should be and the values and expectations that
> inform them. Is this what you were thinking about or am I thinking
> differently to your question ?
> Glenn.
>
>
> At 23:21 26/10/00 -0400, Dr. Andrew L. Blais wrote:
>> How do you think a social constructivist model of disability fits with a
>> social constructivist model of human rights?
>>
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Mairian Corker
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Language Group
School of Education
Kings College London
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