Hi all,
I think it can to a point, but if you want to challenge 'essences' of
humanity that can form the basis for human rights laws, then you may have
problems in shifting who is included and excluded from a social
understanding of disability that can also captured by a set of core rights
that define being human.
It is a problem of long standing in how a set of essential human rights can
bridge different cultures without transgressing cultural differences. On
the one hand I do believe that a set of human rights could avoid many
people who experience cultural prejudice because they are disabled, to be
stigmatised. On the other, they are difficult to formulate without
essentialising to how people should be and the values and expectations that
inform them. Is this what you were thinking about or am I thinking
differently to your question ?
Glenn.
At 23:21 26/10/00 -0400, Dr. Andrew L. Blais wrote:
>How do you think a social constructivist model of disability fits with a
>social constructivist model of human rights?
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