Bypassing the Perils of Victimisation: A Suggested Future Pathway for Disability Studies
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Keywords
Disability Studies, Social Model, Reflexive Sociology
Abstract
Current trends in Disability Studies hint at an overemphasis on the social model. Much description and analysis has been devoted to the dimensions of stigmatisation––how and why people with a disability are a disadvantaged social minority. While this is important, it can exacerbate victimisation in political and personal domains. This article scrutinises victimisation in disability thought and suggests ways to bypass the perils of victimisation. The article focuses on psychosocial implications of disability and, above all, suggests prescriptive measures––something rarely mentioned in disability thought.
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Paul Gordon Jacobs, University of Melbourne
Paul Gordon Jacobs recently completed a Masters of Education by research at the University of Melbourne. His thesis explored aspects of maximising psychosocial potential in mainstream Australian society by people who are deaf. He was also an inaugural member of the Disability Advisory Council of Victoria between 2000 and 2003. Mr. Jacobs has commenced a Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne. His work aims to uncover how non-Deaf people who are deaf maximise their psychosocial potential in mainstream society. This will include applying social psychological theory to the study of deafness, and the recruitment of participants from the USA, Great Britain and Australia.