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Are we truly fighting ableism? Digressions for a complex society [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
Ableism, as a pervasive yet often unchallenged structure of oppression, operates across multiple social domains, shaping perceptions of disability and normalcy.
Lucas Teles da Silva, Dimitri Marques Abramov, Daniel de Freitas Quintanilha   +2 more
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Expanding Ableism: Taking down the Ghettoization of Impact of Disability Studies Scholars

Societies, 2012
This paper highlights the utility of an expanded ableism concept beyond how it is used in disability studies; expanding the concept of ableism so it connects with all aspects of societies and making ableism applicable to many academic fields.
Gregor Wolbring, Wolbring Gregor
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The study of ableism in population health: a critical review

Frontiers in Public Health
Over the past three decades, health equity has become a guiding framework for documenting, explaining, and informing the promotion of population health.
Belinda L Needham, Needham Belinda L
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Developing and Validating Measures of Structural Ableism to Improve Health Outcomes for the Disability Community: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study [PDF]

JMIR Research Protocols
BackgroundStructural ableism, defined as the processes, policies, and institutions that privilege able-bodied people over disabled people, is a root cause of health inequalities faced by the disability community.
Rupa S Valdez, Bonnielin K Swenor, Franz Castro, Caroline Cerilli, Bailey A Middleton, Kara S Fitzgibbon, Ashley Shew, Varshini Varadaraj, Hari Srinivasan, Diana Cejas   +9 more
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How adults with cerebral palsy successfully confront and cope with ableism: a peer-led research project [PDF]

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being
Purpose This study focused on how adults with cerebral palsy successfully confronted ableism during encounters with others and successfully coped with ableism in general.
Cadeyrn J. Gaskin, Andrew D. Brown, Sue Harris, Alex Birnie, Carmen Vargas, Finn O’Keefe, Angela Dew, Debbie Dorfan, Freya Munzel, Claudia Strugnell, Maddie Fogarty, Adam Goodridge, Joy Martin Mitchell, Shelley Spencer   +13 more
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Housing ableism in finding and maintaining housing among people with disabilities: A scoping review. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundAccess to safe and affordable housing is a human right; however, people with disabilities are more likely to live in inaccessible, insecure, unaffordable and poor-quality housing than people without disabilities.
Sally Lindsay, Gözde Öncil, Sarah Leo
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Ableism and the Life Stories of People with Disabilities

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2019
This paper investigates the narrative circulation of ableism. By drawing on anti-oppressive perspectives and narrative inquiry, this article argues that narrative circulation is crucial for understanding the performance and practice of ableism.
Merja Tarvainen
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The symbolic intersecting ableism and racism scale [PDF]

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
IntroductionIntersectionality recognizes and maps the ways oppressions interact and intersect for multiply marginalized people. This framework is a pushing back against the historical approach to discrimination that has taken a “single-axis” view of ...
Carli Friedman
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Ableism and Exclusion

Journal of Research Management and Administration, 2023
Academic institutions are abelist. This, however, does not have to be the case. How do individuals involved in research management address this culture?
Jennifer Leigh, Josie Caplehorne, Sarah Slowe   +2 more
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Undoing Ableism

On_Culture, 2017
In this essay, I will apply disability as a category of legal and historical analysis to undo the different forms ableism can take in US history and law.
Lisa Beckmann
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