Disability politics and theory
Disability politics and theory
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残疾政治和理论
DOI:
10.1080/09687599.2013.864854
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Roddy Slorach
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作者:
Roddy Slorach
This brings the discussion to the pioneering distinction between disability and impairment, made by a small group of socialist disability activists almost 40 years ago. As subsequently developed by Michael Oliver, the new ‘social model of disability’became the founding principle of disability studies. Withers contrasts the former’s emphasis on the need for social change with the ‘rights model’, which ‘focuses on getting disabled people access to society and changing it only as much as is necessary to secure their desired rights’(82). This self-limiting approach, leaving ‘oppressive structures intact…[means that] rights will only ever take a particular group so far’(86).Withers details the declining influence of the social model in recent years in favour of identity-based or more mainstream perspectives. Having found the rights model wanting, she then goes on to reject the social model on three grounds. Firstly, she argues that ‘social modelists’ obsession with participation in paid employment (ie participation within the capitalist system) works to legitimise capitalism rather than undermine it’(90). However, her later statement that ‘one of the primary reasons we have been, and continue to be categorised as disabled is because we are considered to be unproductive or under-productive in the capitalist system’(108) contradicts this claim.