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From: Maria B[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 3:21 AM
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Subject: Re: Need Social Model intro article for general auddience
Jim
One that is really good is M.Oliver 1996 "Understanding Disability from
theory to practice." Ch3. Oliver does a great job of simplifying the
concept. The whole book is great, wish I read this before Politics of
Disablement.
Maria
I don't think sloppy schlolarship is a virtue that disability researchers or theorists should promote. I would describe the analysis of the book as simplistic and lazy. For instance, one of the chapters attempts to incorporate some of Foucault's notions, but clearly misconstrues them - the most obvious aspect of which is the fact that Oliver seems to think that Foucault's notion of "technologies of normalization" and his own notion of "The ideology of normality" are interchangeable. However, anyone who has read very much of Foucault's work knows that he (almost) always eschewed the language of "ideology" for epistemological and political reasons.
On a different note, I find Oliver's reference to "Micheal Foucault" as "a dead French philosopher" (p. 106) especially offensive (homophobic?) given that Foucault was a disabled gay man who died of AIDS.
Best regards,
Shelley Tremain
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