Mark,
With all due respect, maybe the time has come (or long since passed)
that the "original remit noted in the list description" needs to be
revised in a way that acknowledges the diversity of the international
community. For the international commmunity of disability studies (and
even the UK community of disability studies!) has surely changed since
the list began in the early 90s.
You suggest that listmembers should 'make of it what they will' that the
original remit targets those 'working within a social model'; you
suggest, furthermore, that "there is no party line on what that means as
far as you know." This seems disingenuous, however, since most people
(as recent debates here demonstrate) familiar with the literature of
disability studies regard reference to "the social model" as reference
to the UPIAS conception with its impairment/disability distinction. In
other words, the remit for the list privileges (and indeed explicitly
promotes) an historically and culturally specific construal of
disability, which may in fact be at odds with the local, regional, or
national understandings of disability, of the body, of human relations,
of social organization, of the division between nature and culture, etc.
of many listmembers (or other users of) this (international) list.
You can of course do what you want with the list (I'll stay on it), but
I don't accept your line of argument.
Best regards,
Shelley Tremain
Mark Priestley wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Just to underline Michael's posting, the list should not be used for
> personal flames. That is simply a common courtesy. The purpose of the list
> is to foster debate, exchange and greater understanding within our diverse
> international community. Although it is also fair to note, as list owner,
> that the original remit (noted in the list description to new members) was
> to target those 'working within a social model of disability'. Make of that
> what you will - there is no party line on what that means as far as I know.
>
> As chairman Mao finally got round to saying:
>
> 'Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend' (or
> something like that)
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark Priestley
> Centre for Disability Studies
> University of Leeds
> LEEDS
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> UK
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