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Disability, citizenship and uncivilized society: the smooth and nomadic qualities of self-advocacy [PDF]
, 2008 People with the label of "intellectual disabilities"1 are often objectified and devalued by master narratives of deviance, tragedy and lack. In this paper, we draw on poststructuralist and feminist resources (e.g.
Goodley, Dan, Roets, Griet
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Disability and political participation in Ghana: an alternative perspective
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014 Persons with disabilities (PWDs) rarely attain political positions in Ghana. This relates more to the scenario of PWDs as candidates contesting for political position than the mere participation as voters. The core objective of this article is to examine
Emmanuel Sackey
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2021 The metaphor of the 'body politic' is an apparently optimistic one, as it is supposed to signal the relationality and connectedness of all members of the whole. This paper argues that the metaphor does not deliver on its potential because it associates illness and disability with lack of quality of life.
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‘Disabled motherhood in an African community’: Towards an African women theology of disability
In die Skriflig, 2018 The politics of culture, motherhood and mothering in some African communities highlight the tensions that exist in the broader feminist theology agenda.
Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014 This is an introduction and has no abstract.
Michelle Jarman, Alison Kafer
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The emergence, importance of #DisabilityTooWhite hashtag
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2020 In this essay, I look at #DisabilityTooWhite (Thompson, 2016) as an activist call to center the messy intersectionality politics in the disability community, specifically in terms of disability and Whiteness.
Carrie Elizabeth Mulderink
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Addressing ethnicity in social care research [PDF]
, 2012 This article surveys recent developments in relation to the dimensions of ethnicity and ethnicdisadvantage in social policy research and practice, with a focus on social care.
Atkin, Karl, Craig, Gary, Vickers, Tom
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Systemic Silencing Mechanisms in Autism/Autistic Advocacy in Ontario, Canada
Social InclusionThis article reveals how systemic ableism operates within grassroots organizations in Ontario, formulating a normative standard for being an autistic person. In‐depth interviews were conducted with 50 participants in the years 2021 and 2022, triangulated
Cheuk Ming Tsang
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2019 My doctoral thesis, through a case study of the theocratic-nationalist politics of the Iranian regime and the imperialist politics of the U.S., Russia, and Western Europe in the Middle East, investigated the ways in which gendered-, ideological-, and ...
Sona Kazemi
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Would you date ‘the undateables’? An analysis of the mediated public debate on the reality television show ‘The Undateables’ [PDF]
, 2017 This article examines the different discourses in the online public debate surrounding the television dating show ‘The Undateables’. The programme, which exclusively focuses on dates of disabled people, was launched in the UK in 2012, and local ...
Vertoont, Susan
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