>Hi Dan re your post
>
>There are many writers who have engaged with the social model and
>developed many
>important and exciting ideas in relation to social theories of
>impairment (e.g.
>Abberley, Scott-Hill, Tremain, Hughes and Paterson, Titchkosky)
I was caught by the reference to Scott-Hill here, as I don't always
interpret her writing as engaging with the social model in order to
necessarily expand from and within it as you suggest. She is someone
who had made sense to me about the uses of a social model position as
a social constructivist 'position', one epistemic idea among a number
to choose from if strategically necessary. Like her, I am not always
convinced that the interrogation of material realities of social
oppression always does the trick in initiating change for disabled
people at a local level, and I am particularly concerned that people
with intellectual disability (NZ term) remain at the short end of the
stick because of a lack of a broader analysis of gender and sexuality
issues that material realities can miss if they are not careful.
The primacy of how what is said is said as the significant vehicle
for social change is what gets me going. I really enjoyed reading
the following
"Š to interpret (the world) convincingly is to change itŠ" (Corker 2000.447).
cheers Carol
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