----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley Tremain" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Maria" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:08 PM
Subject: Fw: impairment
> Maria,
> would you mind posting this to this disability-resarch list for me. For
> some mysterious reason, I am not able to post to that list. Thanks, and
best
> regards, Shelley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shelley Tremain" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:00 AM
> Subject: Fw: impairment
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Shelley Tremain" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: "Mark Priestley" <[log in to unmask]>;
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 9:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: impairment
> >
> >
> > > This is of course a tendentious misconstrual of the (hegemonic) social
> > > model.
> > >
> > > That version of the model holds that there is a strict division of
> > > impairment and disability. As the saying goes, "disability is not a
> > > necessary consequence of impairment" (a view which you reiterate in
your
> > > latest book). However, if, as you state below, " impairment is itself
a
> > > social construct" and as you further state
> > >
> > > "The definition and labelling of impairment is critical to the process
> of
> > > disablement - a long standing technique of surveillance or governance
> that
> > > has a real impact on people's lives (e.g. influencing decisions about
> > which
> > > schools people attend, where they live, if and where they are
employed,
> > > whether they can be parents, whether they should live or die, etc.)."
> > >
> > > the distinction between impairment and disability breaks down.
> > >
> > > The UPIAS document from which the social model apparently emerged
makes
> a
> > > definite nature/culture distinction. This is an ontological
assumption.
> > In
> > > a post in April, you indicated that you agreed with the ontological
> > > assumptions of the UPIAS document (it may be that you have
reconsidered
> > > your/their view or maybe you simply aren't familiar enough with that
> > > philosophical terminology). Regardless, in your remarks below, you
> > collapse
> > > this distinction. I'm afraid that in neither case can you have it
both
> > > ways.
> > >
> > > I would think for your students' sake (if not for the sake of others
on
> > this
> > > list) you would try to be more consistent in your stated views.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > ______________________
> > > Professor Shelley Tremain
> > > Department of Philosophy
> > > University of Toronto at Mississauga
> > > Erindale College
> > > Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
> > > L5L 1C6
> > >
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> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mark Priestley" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:39 AM
> > > Subject: impairment
> > >
> > >
> > > mmm... it's a well trodden debate but my own view, for what it's
worth,
> is
> > > that it's more helpful to think about social model analysis as a tool
to
> > > expose the oppression experienced by people with 'perceived
impairments'
> > or
> > > people 'labelled as having impairments' (since impairment is itself a
> > social
> > > construct). The definition and labelling of impairment is critical to
> the
> > > process of disablement - a long standing technique of surveillance or
> > > governance that has a real impact on people's lives (e.g. influencing
> > > decisions about which schools people attend, where they live, if and
> where
> > > they are employed, whether they can be parents, whether they should
live
> > or
> > > die, etc.).
> > >
> > > In a social world constructed and governed around shifting
expectations
> of
> > > normality those impairment labels change over time and in response to
> > > changes in the social relations of production and reproduction (hence
> > > disability changes too). From a social model perspective it would be
the
> > > construction and regulation of human normality and social norms that
> gives
> > > rise to disabling barriers (e.g. norms developed in response to the
> > > emergence of capitalism, industrialization, modernity, cultural
> > imperialism,
> > > nationalism, eugenics, medicalisation, etc.).
> > >
> > > Understanding how this kind of labelling takes place, the assumptions
on
> > > which it is based, and the impact it then has on people's lives seems
> > pretty
> > > consistent with social model analysis as far as I can see. I don't
think
> > it
> > > necessarily requires a belief that anyone actually 'has an
impairment',
> > > whatever that is (!), as an individual property (e.g. Carol Thomas'
> > book?).
> > > Sara is right about learning differences for example. From a social
> model
> > > perspective, understanding why some but not others are labeled as
> > > impairments (learning difficulties) exposes how institutions of
learning
> > and
> > > teaching fail to accommodate some differences.
> > >
> > > To take Sara's and Simon's points, the research literature on learning
> > > difficulties' seems to have taken this on board more thoroughly than
> other
> > > fields by often talking explicitly about 'people labelled as having
> > learning
> > > difficulties' rather than 'people with learning difficulties' (a
> > > construction that has evolved radically over recent years to include
> many
> > > new labels and many new groups of people).
> > >
> > > PS. I found Hughes and Paterson's paper on the 'disappearing body'
quite
> > > helpful in highlighting the risk of 'abandoning the body to medical
> > science'
> > > by accepting fixed biophysical notions of impairment.
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Larry Arnold
> > > Sent: 31 August 2004 23:04
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: New Book
> > >
> > > Except of course that your version of the social model still
> discriminates
> > > because it contains the concept of impairment, which is a personal and
> as
> > > negative as any "word" and anglo centric linguistically.
> > >
> > > Oh well whats the point of trying to change and challenge peoples
> beliefs
> > as
> > > they hang onto them anyway, Ossification would be a good word for it?
if
> > it
> > > weren't so latinate in construction.
> > >
> > > I leave you word people to it, you can't see beyond your personal
> > constructs
> > > because you can't think beyond your language into anothers mind who
> thinks
> > > differently.
> > >
> > > Larry
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> > > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Colin Barnes
> > > > Sent: 31 August 2004 07:39
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Subject: New Book
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Dear All
> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> > > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Colin Barnes
> > > > Sent: 31 August 2004 07:39
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Subject: New Book
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Dear All
> > > >
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