A Way Forward: Presenting a Post-modern Framework for Disability
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Keywords
modern, post-modern, disability rights
Abstract
People with disability continue to be engaged in a rights struggle which is reinforced through processes of modernity. This paper reviews the modern framework and its far-reaching effects in influencing understandings of disability, using the Australian experience as an example. An alternative post-modern framework is then presented in contrast. A post-modern conceptualisation of disability is presented as a way forward for understanding disability and for application to disability studies and research.
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Egan, S. (1998). Disability as a social construct. Interaction 12(1), 30-34.
Fitzpatrick, T. (2001). Welfare theory: An introduction. New York: Palgrave.
Frohmader, C. (2002). The Status of Women with Disabilities in Australia - A Snapshot. There is No Justice - Just Us! The Status of Women with Disabilities in Australia. Retrieved from http://www.wwda.org.au/snapshot.htm
Giddens, A. (2006). Sociology (5). Cambridge: Polity Press.
Giddens, A., Duneier, M., & Appelbaum, R. (2007). Introduction to Sociology (6). New York: Norton.
Goggin, G., & Newell, C. (2005). Disability in Australia: Exposing a social apartheid. Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press.
Grace, R. (2005, February 11). Disabled man infested with maggots. The Age. Retrieved from http://www.accessibility.com.au/news/regional/maggots.htm
Hallahan, L. (2001). Abandoned or embedded? When being there is not enough [Memorial Lecture.] Adelaide, South Australia.
Jakubowicz, A. & Meekosha, H. (2000). Disability studies dis/engages with multicultural studies. Paper presented at the Disability with Attitude Conference.
Jolley, W. (1999). Fighting discrimination Australian style. Paper presented at the Japan Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities, International Program of Leadership Training, Japan.
Kincheloe, J., & McLaren, P. (2003). Rethinking critical theory and qualitative research. In N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (Eds.). Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 138 - 157). California: Sage.
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McDonald, A. (2009). If we keep babies alive we must give them a life worth living. Retrieved from http://home.vicnet.au/~dealcc/Anne4.htm
McRuer, R. (2009, May 4). Disability nationalism in Crip Times. Presented at Pac Rim International Conference, Honolulu.
McVilly, K. & Parmenter, T. R. (2006). Professional Ethics and Disability Services. In I. Dempsey & K. Nankervis (Eds.). Community disability services: An evidence based approach to practice (pp. 241 – 271). Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press.
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Meekosha, H. (2000). Changing discourses of disability and human rights in Australia. Paper presented at the Conference of the Asia Pacific Societies, Kwansei Gakuiun University, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Mowbray, P. (2005). Workshop for the taskforce on pastoral responses to abortion. Paper presented at the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
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Oliver, M. (1999). Final accounts and the parasite people. In M. Corker & S. French (Eds.). Disability Discourse. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
Ozdowski, S. (2002, April 8). Disability discrimination legislation in Australia from an international human rights perspective: History achievements prospects. Paper presented at the Social Relations of Disability Network Seminar, University of NSW.
Perry, D. & Whiteside, R. (2000). Women, gender and 'disability' - Historical and contemporary intersections of 'otherness.' Paper presented at the Abilympics International Conference, September 1995. Slight revisions and additions January 2000. Retrieved from http://www.wwda.org.au/whites.htm
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Racevskis, K. (2002). Michael Foucault. In H. Bertens & J. Natoli (Eds.), Post-modernism: The key figures. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Rader, D. & Rader, J. (1998, April 5–7). The three little pigs in a postmodern world. Paper presented at MidSouth Instructional Technology Conference, Murfreesboro, TN. Retrieved from http://www.mtsu.edu/-itconf/proceed98/drader.html.
Russell, M. (1998). Beyond ramps: Disability at the end of the social contract – A warning from an Uppity Crip. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press.
Seidman, S. (2004). Contested knowledge: Social theory today (3rd ed.) UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Shapiro, J.P. (1994). No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. New York: Times Books.
Sherry, M. (2008). Disability and Diversity: A Sociological Perspective. New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
State Records NSW (2006). Archives Investigator: Agency Detail. State Records NSW. Retrieved from http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Details/Agency_Detail
Stone, E., & Priestly, M. (1996). Parasites, pawns and partners: Disability Research and the role of non-disabled researchers. British Journal of Sociology, 45(4), p 699 – 716.
Swain, J. & Cameron, C. (1999). Unless otherwise stated: Discourses of labelling and identity in coming out. In M. Corker & S. French (Eds.), Disability discourse. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
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Rachel Carling-Jenkins, Research Fellow, Monash University
Rachel Carling-Jenkins, Ph.D., is a part time Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia and has a son with Asperger’s Syndrome.