Can we stick to the 'reality' of how the social model empowers disabled
people?
Why is no one mentioning 'CLASS' divisions?
Disabled people from lower socio-economic (underclass) backgrounds are the
most marginalised and oppressed group of people and I know that, like many
other disabled people who live this underclass experience every day within
our lifecourses
What can postmodern theories do to release the poor from the shackles of
oppression?
What does postmodern theory have to offer the poor?
Do the poor really understand postmodern theory anyway, or given the
equality of opportunities to understand it?
How is it going to impact on and empower Charlie, or Jo-Anne (fictional
names) life's, or disabled people living down my street and in communities
all over the UK and global world?
What impact on their life's do postmodern theories have in changing the
lives and creating equality of opportunities and 'justice' for all disabled
people in the UK and global world?
Have we really moved on from the 'modernity' project?
Is postmodern discourse just for the privileged few middle/upper class
academics, that excluded the 'voices' of the poor?
FREEOURPEOPLE (not just the privileged few white middle/upper classes, but I
mean 'ALL')
Yours
Colin Revell
>From: Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Social vs. impairment models
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:30:25 -0000
>
>Yes but building a movement around something that is incorrect and
>potentially divisive in intself may be acceptable in the first instance as
>a
>reaction, antithesis as it were but to continue with it in the face of
>contrary logic for the sake of it is not entirely useful and risks
>discrediting that movement for failing to move on and relocate itself in
>current terms.
>
>In other ways by way of analogy, one does not have to be catholic in ones
>opposition to orthodoxy. To suppose that there is a uniform catholic
>opposition to the medical models orthodoxy is simply wrong. Most people
>tend
>not to support pre Copernican astronomy, but that does not mean that
>Newtons
>rules were beyond criticism and forever correct either.
>
>Larry
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of A Velarde
> > Sent: 08 March 2006 09:02
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Social vs. impairment models
> >
> >
> > Just to add. Yes an strategic alliance is needed because at
> > epistemological
> > level critical modernism (social model) and post modernism, if
> > left on their
> > own will aniquilate each other, rather than realise that behind the
> > battleground the only expectation, away from the reflector, is the
>medical
> > model. By strategic alliance, I mean a express (political?) will
> > to say the
> > world of ideas, categorisations, linguistics and reasoning will pull us
> > apart, because we after all live in the episteme. The episteme
> > has a divide
> > and conquer rule. so we need a common 'political' agenda, not a common
> > language. Andy
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Carol Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: Social vs. impairment models
> >
> >
> >
>
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