With respect to your question I see no contradiction I identify as the
former because of the latter.
I am however neither a person with impairments nor an impaired person,
except in the states of Jersey where the remnants of Norman French linger
perhaps.
I am hindered, and hinded, hounded and hunted. Even set back, late and en
retard for my destination as I would will it, but not having free will I
cannot.
I have a handy cap to keep my head warm and to put upon the ground when I
begging I will go, but I do not bundle my regrets into a gesture of sorrow,
bringing you love, cap in hand :)
I have read Shakespeare's Scottish play, a lot more entertaining than
Disability "Ive got it wrong" but then not really a patch on King Lear, cos
the fool who goes to bed at noon is really cool, even if he does not reside
on a hill, watching the world go round.
Well whatever I'd rather have been Robert Armin, than Will Kemp jigging
about, nine days wonder, soon forgotten. Armin was a sociologist and
historian, he wrote a history of fooling and there is much insight if you do
study the history of fooling, both natural and conceit.
I don't think you can self define as disabled unless you have experienced
oppression, show me someone who does?
Larry
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> Subject: Re: Critiques of self-identification as disabled?
>
> 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:
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