Hi,
Not sure if this responds to the sort of analysis sought, but as a
kind of overview, what about Jerome Bickenbach's essay in Albrecht et
al's classic Handbook of Disability Studies (sage 2001): "Disability,
Human Rights Law, and Policy"? I would throw it into the mix as a
clear analytical exposition of the human rights model, addressing
different approaches to human rights within disability studies (e.g.
"universalist" versus "identity-based" approaches) while taking up the
social model as having "a vital role in making the human rights model
plausible". I also like Gareth Williams's broad background piece on
"Theorizing Disability" in that volume.
The book (or parts thereof) is available electronically:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=vAKSZPR-hk0C&pg=PA565&lpg=PA565&dq=Bickenbac
h+disability&source=bl&ots=8gefZuJVjr&sig=J2UrRa5nv9ssTJkzpCmCkX90M7c&hl=en&
ei=-36zSv64BsPhlAfOouTuDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q
=Bickenbach%20disability&f=false
If the inquiry is instead directed instead at bringing to the surface
disjunctions, rather than conjunctions, between the social model and
human rights model, I would be interested in hearing more about that
line of analysis.
Best,
Sheila Wildeman
Assistant Professor
Schulich School of Law
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
Quoting Thomas Horejes <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi Timothy, good to hear from you. Yes, I suspected that the original
> questioner was inquiring on the UN position, but I wanted to be sure.
>
> If so, then, I can share that in Barnartt & Scotch's (2001)
> "Disability protests: contentious politics 1970-1999", they mention
> the UN endorsement of deaf people to be recognized as a linguistic
> minority (1987) and that "their native and indigenous sign languages
> accepted as their first and official language and as the medium for
> conversation and instruction" (2001, p. 50 quoting from Wrigley, 1996,
> xiv). Such examples that sign language ought to be incorporated as
> the "medium of conversation and instruction" include education which
> would reflect the social model of disability as deaf people being a
> linguistic minority rather than as one with an impairment.
>
> Hope this helps a bit,
>
> Tommy
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Lillie,Timothy H <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> The "socially negotiable" aspect seems to be a commonly-viewed part
>> of human rights, these days. I wonder if the original questioner
>> was not thinking more along the concept of natural (human) rights,
>> more-or-less as the UN Human Rights documents seem to promote.
>>
>> Timothy Lillie, PhD
>> Co-Chair, University Council
>>
>> Dept of Curricular and Instructional Studies
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>>> Human rights according to whom? When you speak of human rights, we are
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>>> > Does anybody know of any detail comparisons of Social model of
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>>> > couple of weeks ago and I am wanting to comment on their report - in
>>> > which they uphold a social model of disability. I have been trying to
>>> > get a comparison of social v's human rights model - so that I am exact
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