Well Larry Arnold has a lot to say about the cultural and linguistic
relativity of it all not to say the hypocrisy of those who have only
supplanted one kind of oppression and subjectivity with another by
linguistic legerdemain.
Impairment indeed, it is the new black, it is as pejorative and diminuatiing
as anything but of course cosy academics are above all that, comfortable and
forgetting that they are now the pigs who walk on two legs.
Larry
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> Hiya - not sure if this is the sort of thing you might be
> interested in but
> I recently came across some work by Shelly Tremain that highlights some
> conceptual problems with the social model. There are a few but see 'On the
> Government of Disability' 2001 27/4 617-636 in Social theory and practice.
> It draws on Foucault and asserts problems with the disability / impairment
> distinction and how modern power relations / political
> arrangements produce
> subjects who have impairments. I think it makes some good points.
>
> stephen
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