Hi everyone
Gee a harsh review for a couple of indiscrepencies. Call me old
fashioned but after having read the first few instances of the
italicised 'normalcy' and 'normal', I had made an assumption that we
could feel comfortable with Simmi's original acknowledgment of the
dubious nature of those words.
Anyway, what I think is more interesting, is the reduction of an
author's name (or anyone's for that matter) to an acronym. One may
concede that using initials does still maintain some acknowledgment
of the person to whom they refer, but to exclude the the
dots/periods/fullstops from between letters is to form a new word
which does not acknowledge identity.
Upon reading, I can see that Mairian did use Rosemary Garland
Thompson's name previous to the indiscrepencies. I assume from
this that I can feel comfortable with the assumption that there was no
malice intended.
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> I thought this was about how we present these terms, and whether or not
> presentation implies that we agree with them or not and sorry if I have
> given the wrong view of your work. I WAS referring primarily to your
> commentary on Rosemarie's writing and it seemed to me that you accepted HER
> view in your comment that:
>
> RGT (1997) has coined the term *the normate*, which like *nondisabled* is
> useful for marking the unexamined centre ... By meeting *normal* on some of
> its own terms, *normate* inflects its root, and challenges the validity,
> indeed the posssibility of normal. At the same time, its ironic twist gives
> a more flavorful reading of the idea of normal (1998: 24-5, * notes words
> which you italicise)).
>
> You don't say HOW it challenges the validity of 'normal', though maybe you
> mean that RGT's explanation tells us? Personally I find her language so
> cryptic that I'm not entirely sure what she's saying. In fairness to you
> though you do, later in the book state that '"Normalisation" is a spurious
> goal' (ibid: 62).
>
Best regards
Laurence Bathurst
School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
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