Re: Joanna Ridley's query
I think that discussions about the impact of impairment are at the
heart of a social model. See Abberley's paper in 1987 and Hughes and
Paterson's cracking paper on revisiting impairment with the social
model as ally. I would suggest Watson's paper on impairment as it
relates to learning difficulties. Finally, keep an eye out for a
cracking book out in the new year (!), which emamines impairment as
it realtes to learning difficulties through the work of the
self-advocacy movement.
Dan Goodley
Abberley, P. (1987). The Concept of Oppression and the Development of
a Social Theory of Disability. Disability, Handicap and Society, 2, 1,
pp.5-21., reproduced in Barton, L. and Oliver, M. (1997). Disability
Studies: Past Present and Future. Leeds: The Disability Press.
Hughes, B., & Paterson, K. (1997). The Social Model of Disability and
the Disappearing Body: Toward a Sociology of Impairment. Disability &
Society, 12(2), 325-340.
Watson, W. (1996). Bad Samaritan: Very
Cognitively Disabled People and the Sociological Sensibility.
International Journal of Critical Sociology, 37(3-3), 231-251.
Goodley, D. (2000a). The Politics of Resilience: Self-advocacy in the
Lives of People with Learning Difficulties. For the 'Disability, Human
Rights and Society' series (Edited by Len Barton). Buckingham: Open
University Press.
Dan Goodley
Bolton Institute
Department of Psychology
Deane Campus
Bolton BL3 5AB
Tel : 01204 903676
"Revolution is necessary ... the class which
overthrows the ruling class can rid itself of
the accumulated rubbish of the past and become
capable of reconstructing society". (Marx 1845)
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