Mairian
Could I trouble you to send me the other two articles of yours that you
mention here. My snail address is P1, Sycamore Lodge, Stone Hall Place,
London W8 5UW.
Or even better by email.
Thank you in advance.
Regards
Lazo Koncar, MBE
Tel: +44-(0)171-937 4313
Mobile: 0410-80 30 94
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From: Mairian Corker <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 18 November 1998 11:00
Subject: Re: Seminal disability texts
>Russell Shuttleworth wrote:
>
>The paper by Mairian Corker was presented at last
>>year's Society for Disability Studies. Another paper by her that you
>>should be able to get more easily is a chapter in the recent published
>>Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives, edited by Tom
>>Shakespeare, called "Disability Discourse in a Postmodern World."
>>However, this paper is not so much focused on the social model.
>
>The latter paper was actually an earlier one which had a different emphasis
>and took a long time to get through the publishing process! The Derrida
>paper is actually extracted from my book Deaf abd Disabled or Deafness
>Disabled? Since SDS, I have written four further papers which link into
>this discussion. Two will be in the forthcoming 'Disability Discourse'
>(Buckingham UK: Open University Press, pub. date January 1999) which I have
>co-edited with Sally French. The other two, I'd be happy to make available
>to anyone who asks.
>
>However, I do want to be clear on one thing. My 'critiques of the
>(materialist) social model' are more measured than some people seem to
>think and I certainly don't want to see its death. I continue to believe
>that the (materialist) social model works well in some arenas of life and
>for some disabled people, as one might expect of a modernist approach. I
>also think that a social theory is different from a social model, that
>models are necessarily limited and delimiting, and that it is not helpful
>to separate or emphasise one part of the structure/culture diad in the way
>that disability studies in the UK tends to do.
>
>The only thing I refute entirely in my critique is that the (materialist)
>social model works for ALL disabled people, ALL of the time in EVERY
>culture and society. I think a careful reading of the UPIAS document
>supports this view, and disability activists tend not to like it when it is
>highlighted. The other thing I feel passionately about is that the
>(materialist) social model does not work in the arena of discourse and
>language, and my reasons for this are both theoretical and practical ones.
>I have therefore tried to develop other strands of a social THEORY of
>disability which bring these issues to the fore.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>
>Best wishes
>
>
>Mairian
>
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>
>Mairian Corker
>Senior Research Fellow
>University of Central Lancashire
>c/o 111 Balfour Road
>Highbury
>London N5 2HE
>U.K.
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