I typically read and enjoy the postings on list serv. However, I have felt the need to weight in on this conversation. Although the work that has been suggested as seminal by Mark is important, most particularly historically, the range and
diversity of work from all over the globe is impressive and important in moving disability studies into the larger , current, and perhaps more useful discussion and analysis of global diversity, rights, and distributive justice. Important
disability studies work should not be overlooked that has been done in many countries. For example, Scotch, new work by Albrecht, our work ( DePoy and Gilson), Nussbaum, Linton, Hahn, Davis, Garland-Thompson, Deborah Stone, among many others, all
provide superb and differing perspectives in diverse fields of inquiry that move our discussion beyond identity and cultural politics. Seems to me that when we delimit our "seminal" work" too narrowly and do not expand globally, the richness and
multi-disciplinarity of scholarship that is relevant to and informs disability studies is lost. Moreover, much of the work that is considered to be new and paradigm shifting to some disability studies scholars has been part of the scholarly
discussions in our field and in other fields for quite some time. Not to consider disability studies works and work from other fields such as that by Badinter, Benn Michaels, Shiao, Kukathus, Omi and Winant, Wegenstein, Howson, Appiah, Kymlica, does
not give credit to ideas that are only new to those who have not read them.
Liz
Elizabeth DePoy, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
University of Maine
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