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dear all (especially north american colleagues) I am passing on a request from an American colleague, a sociologist who is not a specialist in the disability field, who needs a bibliography of basic American literature on disability. He's putting together material on space and civil society and is very keen to include stuff about disability in this and wants some guidance on the american literature. I'm pasting in part of his message so you get the drift of the kind of areas he's interested in. Any help would be most appreciated. What are the key texts he should certainly know about? "For the handbook we're developing, one of our authors is writing on space and civil society. I suggested that one of the areas she cover ought to be disability and how barriers not only limit access and independence but affect how people with disabilities are able to participate in community and civic life. Do you have a reference list I could pass on? It would help if there were some American references since they're likely to be easier to access. What I'm thinking here is that there ought to be some straightforward writings about disability, access, and spatial redesign. Then there ought to be some things about disability, barriers, and the capacity for independence. It would be important to have these. Then I'm wondering whether there are writings about how the experience of being disabled relates to one's self-concept as a citizen or how it affects one's sense that one is part of an oppressed minority, so that disability leads to a political reconceptualization of identity. Then it also would be nice to have references that are more in the therapeutic realm of the sort saying that disabled people in rural settings where there is lots of natural support find it easier to be independent than people in urban settings and in urban settings people in neighborhoods with complex, interactive social climates would allow greater independence than neighborhoods that either are suburban in style or where the infrastructure of social interaction has been eliminated". Thanks Nick Acheson Dr Nick Acheson, Research Fellow, Centre for Voluntary Action Studies, School of Public Policy University of Ulster ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.