I am not familiar with the literature. However, I would have thought,
though may be wrong, that if you totally avoid medical elements that you
are left with self-identification and/or acceptance by other disabled
people. There is then, of course, the question of the basis of the
self-identification. And what would make someone self-identify as
disabled with regards to the disabled people's movement if they were not
in some meaningful sense 'disabled'? (Benefits to the extent they are
sitll available are likely to have a medical test.)
Marion
Steven Graby wrote:
> Does anyone on this list know of any critical analyses that have been
> written of the concept of "self-identified disabled people" (e.g. as
> used as a qualification for membership of disabled people's
> organisations), and how this does or doesn't fit in with the social
> model definition of "disability"?
>
> I have tried looking on Google Scholar and nothing useful comes up,
> otherwise i am not really sure where to start looking...
>
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