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Disabling Political Theory: Essays at the Intersection of Political Theory and Disability Studies

2013
The purpose of this project is to establish disability as an integral subject of inquiry for political theorizing. To date, there has been scant interaction between the academic disciplines of political theory and disability studies, and this dissertation proposes that each has much to learn from the other.
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Disability Policy and Politics

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2000
This historical case study of the League of the Physically Handicapped, a disability-rights activist group in Depression-era New York City, examines some of the ways in which people with disabilities have contested and endeavored to alter the public policies and social values that have affected their social identities and social careers.
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Researching Disability Politics

2013
s I begin to write this chapter, I recall a book edited by Clough and Corbett (2000), in which key academics of inclusive education reflected on their background experience, explaining their journey of researching and theorizing about disability ...
Symeonidou, Simoni, Symeonidou, Simoni
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The politics of disability identity

2018
This chapter looks at the possibilities for contributions to disability identity in the developing theories of post-modernism, liberal and radical feminist theories, and critical pedagogy. It argues that the ideologies hold promise for transforming the field of sociology both at the ideological level and at the level of practice and methodology.
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Politics of Disability: International

2006
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Body Politic: Disability and Political Cohesion

Disability is a human universal and a complex social category with far-reaching implications for American law and public policy (Bagenstos, 2000; Scheer and Groce, 1988). Yet, little is known about the potential implications of disability for political psychology.
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Radical Disability Politics

2019
This roundtable discussion brings six prominent disability organisers in Canada and the US into conversation. Key issues discussed are what is radical about radical disability politics, the omissions of disability in many forms of activism, the tendency for disability organising to be single-issue and the contributions disability and a disability ...
Lydia X. Z. Brown, Loree Erickson, Rachel da Silva Gorman, Talila A. Lewis, Lateef McLeod, Mia Mingus   +5 more
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The Politics of Disablement

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1991
Michael Oliver, HUGH M. BOCHEL
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Disability and Political Representation

Abstract Disability and Political Representation explores how and why representation is important for disabled people, but also how disability can help us think about the contours of political representation. The book examines the barriers to political participation that disabled people face and discusses why increasing the number of ...
Evans, Elizabeth, Reher, Stefanie
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Disability, Politics and Citizenship

1996
This chapter will return to the relationship between the personal and political, originally discussed in Chapter 1. Its main focus will be on collective empowerment and this will be discussed in relation to the rise of the disability movement in Britain. The discussion will draw upon the recent reintroduction of the idea of citizenship, heralded by the
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