On Our Own Behalf: Theory, Strategy, and Practice within the Disabled People's Movement in Britain

大曼彻斯特残疾人联盟（GMCDP）的档案是与英国残疾人运动（DPM）有关的最大的实物收藏。与利兹大学残障档案只包含学术出版物和讲座不同，它拥有超过100箱的文件，这些文件来自地方和国家残障组织（DPOs），从1974年到现在，包括政治报告、政策讨论和理论出版物。尽管残疾研究最初承诺“与由残疾人控制和经营的组织建立牢固的联系”，并“反映和发展他们的见解和兴趣”（Barnes: 2008），学术研究和残疾人组织活动家的项目之间的鸿沟正在扩大。这反映在2019年的《残疾与社会》特刊上，该特刊呼吁“更新”他们的关系，重新聚焦残疾活动人士的声音。夏季开放的GMCDP档案馆为发展这种更新提供了一个独特的机会。学者和活动家的分离是基于理论争议和缺乏可用的研究材料。残疾研究中的许多人（参见，Shakespeare and Watson: 2002, Armer: 2004）明确拒绝dpo常见的残疾的唯物主义方法，而支持后结构主义方法；虽然在已发表的研究中，关于活动家对自己角色的概念的描述仍然很少。通过利用GMCDP档案来探索以前无法获得的活动家声明，并构建DPO行动主义的政治史，我试图缩小这一差距，并发展一种可以将残疾行动主义与学术工作重新结合起来的残疾哲学方法。

Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People's (GMCDP's) archive is the largest physical collection relating to Britain's Disabled People's Movement (DPM). Unlike the University of Leeds Disability Archive, which contains only academic publications and lectures, it holds over 100 boxes of papers from local and national Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs) from 1974 to the present: including political reports, policy discussions, and theoretical publications. Despite the initial promise of Disability Studies to build 'firm links with organizations controlled and run by disabled people' and 'to reflect and develop their insights and interests' (Barnes: 2008), the gulf between academic research and DPO activists' projects is widening. This is reflected in the 2019 special issue of Disability and Society, which calls for a 'renewal' of their relationship and a re-centering of the voice of disabled activists. The summer opening of GMCDP's archives offers a unique opportunity to develop this renewal. The academic-activist disjunct is predicated on theoretical controversies, and a lack of available research material. Many in Disability Studies (cf, Shakespeare and Watson: 2002, Armer: 2004) explicitly reject materialist approaches to disablement common to DPOs in favour of post-structuralist methodologies; while accounts of activists' conceptions of their roles remain rare within published research. By utilising the GMCDP archives to explore previously unavailable activist statements and construct a political history of DPO activism, I attempt to close this gap and develop a philosophical approach to disablement that can reunite disability activism and academic work.