Notice how the announcement below demonstrates once again that (despite
their pronouncements to the contrary) proponents of the social model hold an
impairment-based view of disability. For the announcement does not simply
state the different modes in which the text will be made available, and, in
doing so, imply that universal access (or something approaching it) is a
human right and should be the rule, not the exception to the rule. Instead,
there is a compulsion on the part of the Centre to single out various groups
of people who might differ from "normal book-users" (i.e., sighted people
or people with 'normal' communication abilities who use printed text) and
who, insofar as they differ from the norm, require 'special treatment' when
it comes to books.
S.L. Tremain
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From: "Mark Priestley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 5:13 AM
Subject: new book
Hi
As some of you may be aware, we were pleased to publish a new title in the
Disability Press book series this month, as follows:
Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research
Edited by Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer
This book contains 13 chapters on the theoretical and research implications
of the social model of disability. Over the last three decades disability
activists have established the social model of disability as a comprehensive
critique of mainstream academic theories and policy approaches. The
contributors, including established figures and newcomers to the field,
raise a number of important controversies and concerns central to theorising
and researching disability in the 21st century. Taken together they provide
ample testimony to the continuing vitality of debates around the social
model in disability studies. It will prove to be an invaluable addition to
the growing body of knowledge that underpins disabled people's ongoing
struggle for a fair and just society.
'Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research' is also
available at no additional cost on CD, in PDF format, for ease of access for
people with visual or communication related impairments.
'Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research' is only
available by mail order
at: £16.50 including postage and packing (20% discount for orders of four or
more)
Payment may be by credit card (Visa or Mastercard) via telephone, fax,
email, or by Stirling cheque drawn on a UK bank (payable to the University
of Leeds). To order contact Marie Ross
(44) 113 3434407 (tel. and minicom)
(44) 113 3434415 (fax)
email: [log in to unmask]
or by post at:
Centre for Disability Studies,
School of Sociology and Social Policy,
University of Leeds,
LS2 9JT
UK
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