Thanks, i have seen (on blogs etc) stuff around (mainly Australian
Aboriginal, but also Jewish and Native American) ethnic identity which
potentially parallel what i am thinking about.
The main thing i'm particularly interested in here is whether there is
a conflict between a definition of "disabled people" as those who
identify themselves as disabled (as, for example, the NUS Disabled
Students Campaign, and some local DPOs in the UK, define eligibility
for membership), and a definition of "disabled people" as those people
with impairments who are materially oppressed as a result of
social/politial/economic attitudes to people with impairments. There
are (at least potentially) people who may self-define as disabled
despite arguably not experience such oppression, and (definitely)
people who do experience such oppression but who do not self-define as
"disabled people".
From a US point of view i found this conference address, which
distinguishes between "descriptively disabled" and "politically
disabled", which is conceptually close but not quite exactly what i am
looking for: http://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/moving-toward-the-ugly-a-politic-beyond-desirability/
I read Shakespeare's "Disability Rights and Wrongs" a few years ago
and was profoundly unimpressed. I don't remember anything from that
book that was particularly relevant, but i might have a quick look to
see if there was anything relevant in it that i didn't remember.
Steve
On 29/10/2011, Peter Whiteford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There are significant debates in a number of countries about
> self-identification of aboriginality, and there may be parallels or
> arguments and material that are relevant.
>
> http://www.google.com.au/search?q=self+identification+aboriginality&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
>
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> 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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