Thanks, there looks to be some useful references worth pursuing there.
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I think the notions of disability cultures need a sounding out there.
Larry
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> Subject: Re: That Shakespeherian Rag
>
> It's a while ago (1996) but I did once do a very short paper called 'The
> Disabled People's Movement - Class or Post-class?'. I don't think I have
> an electronic copy and to be honest I can't remember what's in it. But I
> can probably find a hard copy if it's any use. I don't think it's
> generally available in print (and most likely not worth the searching)
> but it's in a Cambridge Sociological Research Group conference
> proceedings called 'Post Class Society?' edited by Wendy Bottero in 1996
>
> Actually, I thought Tom's 1993 paper was very useful...
>
> Shakespeare, T. (1993). Disabled people's Self-organisation: a new
> social movement? Disability, Handicap and Society, 8(3), 249-264.
>
> Here's a few more suggestions...
>
> Beresford, P., & Holden, C. (2000). We have choices: globalisation and
> welfare user movements. Disability & Society, 15(7), 973-989.
> Campbell, J., & Oliver, M. (1996). Disability Politics: understanding
> our past, changing our future. London: Routledge.
> Davis, K. (1993). On the Movement. In J. Swain & V. Finkelstein & S.
> French & M. Oliver (Eds.), Disabling Barriers: Enabling Environments.
> Milton Keynes: Open University Press/SAGE.
> DeJong, G. (1981). The Movement for Independent Living: origins,
> ideology, and implications for disability research. In A. Brechin & P.
> Liddiard & J. Swain (Eds.), Handicap in a Social World. London: Hodder &
> Stoughton.
> Driedger, D. (1989). The Last Civil Rights Movement. London: Hurst & Co.
> Fleischer, D. Z., & Zames, F. (2001). The Disability Rights Movement:
> from charity to confrontation. Philadelphia, PA.: Temple University
> Press.
> Hahn, H. (2002). Academic Debates and Political Advocacy: the US
> disability movement. In C. Barnes & L. Barton & M. Oliver (Eds.),
> Disability Studies Today. Cambridge: Polity Press.
> Hasler, F. (1993). Developments in the Disabled People's Movement. In J.
> Swain & V. Finkelstein & S. French & M. Oliver (Eds.), Disabling
> Barriers: Enabling Environments. Milton Keynes: Open University
> Press/SAGE.
> Hevey, D. (1991). From self love to the picket line. In S. Lees (Ed.),
> Disability Arts and Culture Papers. London: Shape Publications.
> Johnson, M., & Shaw, B. (Eds.). (2001). To Ride the Public's Buses: the
> fight that built a movement. Louisville: The Advocado Press.
> Kasnitz, D. (2001). Life event histories and the US independent living
> movement. In M. Priestley (Ed.), Disability and the Life Course: global
> perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
> Morrison, E., & Finkelstein, V. (1993). Broken Arts and Cultural Repair:
> the role of culture in the empowerment of disabled people. In J. Swain &
> V. Finkelstein & S. French & M. Oliver (Eds.), Disabling Barriers:
> Enabling Environments. Milton Keynes: Open University Press/SAGE.
> Pagel, M. (1988). On Our Own Behalf: an introduction to the
> self-organisation of disabled people. Manchester: Greater Manchester
> Council of Disabled People.
> Peters, S. (2000). Is there a disability culture? A syncretisation of
> three possible world views. Disability & Society, 15(4), 583-601.
> Scotch, R. (1985). Disability as a basis for a social movement; advocacy
> and the politics of definition. Journal of Social Issues, 44(1),
> 159-172.
> Swain, J., & French, S. (2000). Towards an affirmation model of
> disability. Disability & Society, 15(4), 569-582.
> Zola, I. (1987). The Politicization of the Self-Help Movement. Social
> Policy, 18, 32-33.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark
>
>
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> Sent: 13 February 2007 14:41
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> Subject: That Shakespeherian Rag
>
> "It's so elegant, so intelligent" (Eliot, 1922)
>
> Well attempting to be serious for a moment. I have not yet managed to
> read
> the latest Shakespeare Tome, which is probably a testimony either to my
> meanness or poverty, or the popularity of the book whichever way you
> look at
> it.
>
> So I am looking for a useful citation (not from Eliots Waste land again
> please)wondering do we find anywhere in Shakespeare (the baronet not the
> bard) the critique of the disability movement from the sociological
> standpoint of its being an elitist or "high" culture analogous to the
> notions of classical music vs rock and roll for the hoi polloi.
>
> I rather suspect it would be a wonderful post modernist irony for
> Shakespeare to say this, but I am willing to accept any lesser luminary
> who
> has pointed this notion out from the opposite class perspective, that is
> to
> say that the "disability movement" is a middle class educated ideal
> attempting to patronise the ordinary experience of working class
> "disability" (whatever disability in this context means).
>
> And don't shoot me for asking for it, I am simply looking for a critique
> of
> this sort to balance an essay I am writing, not necessarily agreeing
> with
> the idea, cos who says the lumpenproletariat can't have culcha :)
>
> Larry
>
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