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'Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place': Anti-discrimination Legislation in the Liberal State and the Fate of the Australian Disability Discrimination Act [PDF]

, 2002
This article offers a critical analysis of some of the practical implications for disabled people of the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992. Specifically, it raises questions about politics and the role of the law as an instrument of social change ...
ACROD, ACROD, Attridge M., Banks R., Barnes C., Barry N., CAA [Community Aid Abroad], Cabassi J., Charlesworth H., Gooding C., Graham H.D., Greenwood G., Howe B., HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], Jones M., Jones M., Kanter A.S., Laski H., Mackimon C., Maddox G., Mason A., Menzies R., Mosley A., NSWADB [New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board], NSWADB [New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board], Pengelly K., Peter Handley, Riker W., Thornton M., UPIAS [Union of the Physically Impaired against Segregation], Yeatman A.   +33 more
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Transnationalising Disability Studies: Rights, Justice and Impairment

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014
In this paper we aim to explore the realm of impairment in terms of its politicization under transnational claims for justice. The realm of disability rights and justice has been a central theme in disability analytical inquiry and by disability movement
Karen Soldatic, Shaun Grech
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Mules and Madmen: On the Disabling Habitats of Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Toomer

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2023
This essay reads the work of two major Harlem Renaissance authors as underacknowledged sites of disability politics and aesthetics, situating this moment in African-American artistic innovation as integral to the literary history of disability and ...
Liz Bowen
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Diversity, inequality and a post-structural politics for education [PDF]

, 2006
This paper considers the contribution to understanding educational inequalities offered by post-structural theories of power and the subject. The paper locates this consideration in the context of the ongoing endeavour in education studies to make sense ...
Youdell, Deborah
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The experience of disability activism through the development of the disability movement: how do disabled activists find their way in politics?

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
This paper reflects critically upon part of the findings of research about key activists’ experience of disability politics in Cyprus from 1966 to 2004.
Simoni Symeonidou
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From the voice of a ‘Socratic Gadfly’: a call for more academic activism in the researching of disability in postsecondary education [PDF]

, 2017
In this article I use the lens of voices and silences to frame my review of research in the field of disability and postsecondary education. I argue that we need to view research in this field as a necessarily political act that seeks to turn voices of ...
Seale, Jane K
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Thinking With Disability Studies

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014
In this essay, I offer tentative ruminations about the possibilities/challenges of theory and praxis in the field of disability studies. I begin the essay by thinking through my own positionality as a non-disabled woman of color scholar/ally in the field.
Nirmala Erevelles
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The challenges of intersectionality: Researching difference in physical education [PDF]

, 2008
Researching the intersection of class, race, gender, sexuality and disability raises many issues for educational research. Indeed, Maynard (2002, 33) has recently argued that ‘difference is one of the most significant, yet unresolved, issues for feminist
A. Flintoff, Arnot M., Azzarito L., Benn T., Brah A., Brah A., Brah A., Butler J., Carby H., Carroll B., Corker M., Douglas K., Douglas K., Epstein D., Evans J., Fitzgerald H., Fitzgerald H., Flintoff A., Flintoff A., Flintoff A., Francis B., Gillborn D., Gillborn D., Goodwin D.L., H. Fitzgerald, Hargreaves J., Hill Collins P., Hooks B., Jordan‐Zachery J., Knez K., Mac an Ghaill M., Martino W., Maynard M., Meekosha H., Mirza H., Oliver K., Penney D., Penney D., Penney D., Ramazanoglu C., S. Scraton, Scraton S., Scraton S., Scraton S., Scraton S., Skelton C., Thomson R.G., Walkerdine V., Webb L.A., Weiner G., Wilkinson L., Wright J.   +51 more
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Paralympic cultures: disability as paradigm [PDF]

, 2013
This is an article about the Paralympic Games of summer 2012 and the experience of watching them. It rehearses the use of disability as political and cultural identity in relation to theatre and performance studies. Disability identity is not an identity
Conroy, Colette
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Pandemic Lived Experience, Crip Utopias, and Dismodernist Revolutions: For a More‐Than‐Social Model of Disability

Social Inclusion, 2023
At its height, the Covid‐19 pandemic dispersed across society a perception of bodyminded contingency that ushered in modes of “building community” that were unimaginable in pre‐pandemic times, alongside an intensification of health and social ...
Arianna Introna
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