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Stone, Emma Victoria. "Reforming disability in China : a study in disability and development." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2293/.
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The thesis sits between three academic fields: disability studies, development studies and East Asian studies. It is an unusual but important study of disability in a nonwestern culture. The thesis is unusual because it explores macro-level (rather than grassroots) constructions of disability, focusing on institutions and ideologies. It is important because no-one has (to my knowledge) undertaken this kind of macro-level analysis on a developing country; and also (again, to my knowledge) because the story of the macro-level construction of disability in China has not been told before. In this thesis, evidence and arguments are put forward with reference to the historical construction of disability in imperial China (Chapter Three), in late Qing and early Republican China (Chapter Four) and in state socialist China under Mao Zedong (Chapter Five). These chapters explore the place of impairment in Confucian cosmologies; the imperial construction of an administrative category of disability; the influence of western ideas and institutions on internal Chinese debates about the body and nation; and the place of disability and disabled people in state socialist China. A hypothesis of a discourse of body, nation and development is developed, and continues through the next four chapters which focus on disability in post-Mao China. Chapter Six examines the unexpected appearance of disability on the national government’s agenda in the 1980s. Chapter Seven explores disability-related policies and their underpinning values. Also in Chapter Seven, three studies are provided which incorporate field-based data to inject some balance (from the “grassroots") into what is otherwise an intentionally imbalanced thesis. Chapter Eight analyses the content and implications of disability propaganda; Chapter Nine tackles the difficult subject of disability legislation, in which equal rights and eugenics appear to go hand in hand. The result is a study of disability and development - and of discourses of disability and development - which will inform current thinking and will provide important information on disability policies, provision and propaganda in post-Mao China.
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Kelly, Gabrielle Gita. "Conceptions of disability and desert in the South African welfare state: The case of disability grant assessment." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22810.
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Disability is a universally difficult concept to define and assess for social assistance and social insurance purposes. The ways in which access to disability welfare rights are defined and allocated remain especially neglected in the Global South. This thesis examines the administration of the disability grant (DG) in South Africa, where unusually generous disability benefits exist alongside very high levels of unemployment and poverty. It focuses on the role of doctors, who must confirm that applicants for the DG are disabled, serving as gatekeepers, and thus as 'street level bureaucrats' within the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). Observations of doctor-claimant interactions in clinics and hospitals showed that disability assessments are sites of contestation between doctors, claimants and the state over how social security rights should be allocated. Doctors struggled to balance their roles and obligations as medical professionals, gatekeepers and moral agents, in a context where issues of employability and disability are hard to separate. In the face of heavy workloads and significant pressure from claimants to recommend grants, doctors employed coping strategies that distanced and objectified patients. Despite efforts by SASSA to curb their discretion, doctors inserted their own subjective understandings of disability and deservingness into the assessment process as they interpreted and applied DG policy in their interactions with claimants - bending the rules for people they thought were 'deserving' and rigidly applying the rules in 'undeserving' cases. Variation in doctors' decision-making reflects different ways of framing disability cases. The interpretive schemas that doctors used to organise and make sense of cases were shaped by their social background and dispositions, work environment, professional and personal norms and values, and ideas about distributive justice. Framing is also an interactive process and was influenced by claimants, who brought their own agency to bear on the assessment. The concept of framing contributes to street-level bureaucracy theory by capturing the pluralism of norms and ideas that ground street-level actions, whilst allowing us to observe and explain patterns emerging in street-level decisions. It is also useful in examining the relationship and potential conflicts between professional expertise, social norms and values, and bureaucratic rules. The study also shows the need for scholars of street-level bureaucracy to consider the influence of citizen agency on policy implementation. The challenges and pressures doctors faced in categorising disability, combined with patients' misunderstanding of and resistance to these categories and related demands to be included in the system, demonstrate significant gaps in the design and application of social security and poverty alleviation policy in South Africa.
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Amoatey, Solomon Sackey. "Disability in Ghana." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1587471693522674.
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Grönvik, Lars. "Definitions of Disability in Social Sciences : Methodological Perspectives." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Sociology, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7803.
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This dissertation examines how disability researchers define disability. It is based on four studies. The first describes different definitions of disability in disability research. The second study is a conceptual analysis of the use of disability in a sample of disability research classics. In this study, it is evident that use of the concept is all but clear. It is concluded that especially environmentally based disability definitions would benefit from further empirical investigations. The notion that environmental factors (such as barriers) are a causal aspect of disability is rather widely accepted among disability researchers. However, it has not been empirically studied to such an extent that it is possible to construct workable theories of this relationship.
The third study focuses on administrative definitions of disability and investigates the possibility of using data on disabled people that have been gathered by Swedish welfare authorities. It is concluded that rich data are available, but also that researchers must scrutinize how disability has been defined in these contexts. These authorities often start from medical understandings of disability, which may clash with contemporary understandings of disability as being environmentally based.
The fourth study is a statistical analysis of the effects of different disability definitions on dependent variables. The analyses emphasize variables often included in studies of living conditions. There are major effects of choice of disability definition on the outcome in relation to such variables.
The dissertation strongly rejects efforts to standardize disability definitions; different analytical purposes require different kinds of conceptualizations. Instead, the dissertation suggests that case-constructing reflexivity be conducted. Case-constructing reflexivity means that the researcher starts with a careful analysis of how disability is best defined in relation to the aims of the study, and continues by being constantly aware of how the choice of definition may affect sampling, analyses and results.
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Sweeney, Brian J. "Mainstreaming disability on Radio 4." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4976/.
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In the autumn of 1997 it was announced that Radio 4's programmes were to be rescheduled and a commitment was given that disability would become a mainstream issue for the network. The new schedule and the mainstreaming initiative were implemented in April 1998. One of the immediate effects of rescheduling was the disappearance of Does He Take Sugar?, the network's weekly programme which presented in-depth treatment of general disability issues. By way of replacement, You and Yours, Radio 4's consumerist programme of longstanding, was given the remit to include regular coverage of disability issues in its content. It was intended that the outcome of these decisions would be that regular coverage of disability would emerge from a niche slot within the network and be positioned within the mainstream of the network's output. On the one hand, the implementation of the proposal to mainstream disability yielded the possibility of an increase in the coverage of disability issues on Radio 4 in an integrated way. On the other hand it could mean a loss of effective and focused treatment of disability issues and a qualitative shift in the nature of coverage. The proposal to mainstream disability issues on Radio 4 thus touched on central issues concerning the treatment of socially disadvantaged groups and the quest for equality. Its implementation took place at a time when the UK disability movement was growing in political power, and disabled people in Britain were becoming aware of the promise of potentially beneficial socio-cultural changes reflected by developments such as the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act CDDA 1995). This thesis examines three aspects of the introduction of the mainstreaming initiative and the early years of its implementation: a) it draws on interviews with key players, conversations with others involved, participant observation reports and documentary evidence to examine the rationale behind the mainstream initiative and, in the light of the decision to drop the network's programme which focussed on general disability issues (Does He Take Sugar?), it examines the decision to retain In Touch, the network's niche programme for blind or visually impaired listeners; b) it presents a quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis of the network's pre and post-mainstreaming treatment of disability issues. This includes analysis of ten editions of Does He Take Sugar? the disability issues covered in You and Yours during the months of September 1998, 1999, 2000 and analysis of the series No Triumph, No Tragedy. presented by a former member of the Does He Take Sugar? team in the summer of 2000.
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Lewthwaite, Sarah. "Disability 2.0, student dis/connections : a study of student experiences of disability and social networks on campus in higher education." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12406/.
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For many young people, social networks are an essential part of their student experience. Using a Foucauldian perspective, this qualitative study explores the networked experiences of disabled students to examine how dis/ability difference is ascribed and negotiated within social networks. Data comprises 34 internet-enabled interviews with 18 participants from three English universities. Accessible field methods recognise participant preferences and circumstances. Data is analysed using discourse analysis, with an attention to context framed by activity theory. Disabled students’ networked experiences are found to be complex and diverse. For a proportion, the network shifts the boundaries of disability, creating non-disabled subjectivities. For these students, the network represents the opportunity to mobilise new ways of being, building social capital and mitigating impairment. Other participants experience the network as punitive and disabling. Disability is socio-technically ascribed by the social networking site and the networked public. Each inducts norms that constitute disability as a visible, deviant and deficit identity. In the highly normative conditions of the network, where every action is open to scrutiny, impairment is subjected to an unequal gaze that produces disabled subjectivities. For some students with unseen impairments, a social experience of disability is inducted for the first time. As a result, students deploy diverse strategies to retain control and resist deviant status. Self-surveillance, self-discipline and self-advocacy are evoked, each involving numerous social, cognitive and technological tactics for self-determination, including disconnection. I conclude that networks function both as Technologies of the Self and as Technologies of Power. For some disabled students, the network supports ‘normal’ status. For others, it must be resisted as a form of social domination. Importantly, in each instance, the network propels students towards disciplinary techniques that mask diversity, rendering disability and the possibility of disability invisible. Consequently, disability is both produced and suppressed by the network.
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Kirkpatrick, Stephanie R. "The Disney-fication of disability the perpetuation of Hollywood stereotypes of disability in Disney's animated films /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1248051363.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, School of Communication, 2009."August, 2009." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 10/14/2009) Advisor, Mary Triece; Committee members, Therese Lueck, Carolyn Anderson; School Director, Carolyn Anderson; Dean of the College, James Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Sanchez, Taylor Morgan Violeta. "Beyond the Door: Disability and the Sibling Experience." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4761.
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This thesis explores the experiences of adult siblings of individuals with impairments. It expands on the existing literature by exploring the complexity of the sibling experience of disability while moving beyond the concepts of burden and maladjustment that have characterized much of the previous literature. In addition, it expands upon and extends to the sibling experience an emerging view of disability by examining the ways in which themes identified in sibling narratives cross lines between the Medical and Social Models of Disability. Building on work by Mark Priestly and Tom Shakespeare, I call this emerging view the Interactional Model of Disability. Using in-depth interviews, four key themes have been identified: encountering bodily difference, the importance of social relationships, the mediating effects of resources, and complex emotions within the sibling experience. Findings indicate that variations within the sibling disability experience depend largely on whether impairment is appropriately acknowledged and accepted by the larger community, accessibility of resources, and the strength of social support. The use of informal caregiving was also an important factor in terms of the emotions experienced by siblings. Those participants whose families relied exclusively on informal caregiving experienced greater concerns about long term care arrangements than those participants whose families utilized some aspect of formalized caregiving such in home supports or assisted living arrangements.
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Liddiard, Kirsty. "(S)exploring disability : intimacies, sexualities and disabilities." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50349/.
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This thesis details an empirical exploration of disabled peoples’ lived experiences of sexual and intimate life. Disabled people are predominantly desexualised and degendered and within ableist cultures; they are also, as Brown (1994: 125) states, assigned paradoxical social categories of ‘asexual, oversexed, innocents, or perverts’. Thus, this thesis begins from the position that disabled peoples’ access to and experiences of sexual life occur in the context of these dominant ableist constructions of disabled sexualities, and that the reclamation or formation of a sexual self requires resistance to, or strategic management and negotiation of such constructions. The research methodology worked to the central tenets of consultation, accessibility, empowerment and relevance. A Research Advisory Group made up of local disabled people was established, the purpose of which was to guide the research process, offer expert knowledge, and ensure that the research was accessible, engaging and empowering for the individuals who took part. Through a thematic analysis of the sexual stories told by twenty-five disabled people (and one non-disabled partner), in their own words and on their own terms, this thesis details the complex and variegated relationships between disability, impairment, sexuality, and gender. Findings show that heteronormative discourse had very complicated and contradictory implications for disabled men and women, but also empowered disabled men relative to disabled women. Moreover, analysis has illustrated the ‘complex invisible “work” performed by disabled people’ (Church et al 2007: 1) through participants regularly taking on the roles of teacher, negotiator, manager, mediator, performer, educator, and resistor within a variety of spaces in their sexual and intimate lives. While this work was evidence of sexual agency, the majority of participants’ labours were rooted in the oppressive and inherent inequalities of ableist culture. Furthermore, the majority of participants experienced extensive psycho-emotional disablism – ‘the socially engendered undermining of psychoemotional wellbeing’ (Thomas, 1999: 60) – as routine within their sexual and intimate lives.
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Sherry, Mark D. ""If I only had a brain" : examining the effects of brain injury in terms of disability, impairment, identity and embodiment /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16477.pdf.
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Carnaby, Steven. "Designs for living : a comparative study of learning disability services in London and Milan." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1997. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1482/.
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Normalisation as defined by Wolfensberger informs British services for people with learning disabilities, probably without exception. It is an approach which instructs services to help service users acquire behaviours and characteristics which are as 'culturally normative as possible' (1972:28). The later interpretation by O'Brien (e.g. 1980), where he summarises and translates normalisation into the Five Service Accomplishments, has attempted to aid support staff in the task of translating operational policies built upon normalisation principles into practice. While many studies have attempted to assess the efficacy of this approach, it is difficult to establish their success, as their measurement criteria are usually based upon levels of competence and participation - values themselves derived from the normalisation approach. This study attempts to step outside this dilemma by using a comparative research method. Services in London are compared with services in Milan, Northern Italy, as while the latter also undertake to support people with learning disabilities using individual planning processes and on rare occasions residential services, the operational policies, training and overall framework for doing so are underpinned by a holistic, legislative model which views the family or its substitution as the key to service provision. Milanese services also advocate a framework which values interdependence between service users, and indeed considers the group living perspective of living in the community as essential for the development of self esteem. This is felt to be a pre-requisite for effective integration with the local community. British services, conversely, aim to encourage relationships between people with learning disabilities and non-disabled others as the most appropriate pathway to integration. This then acts as a valuable contrast with normalisation and enables the impact of Wolfensberger's approach to be considered in a unique way. The comparison is on three levels. Residential services - one in London and one in Milan - are studied using in-depth interviews with a total of 12 service users and 11 staff, as well as participant observation of daily life in each project. Individual planning processes, seen as the most direct way by which service ideology is implemented, is compared by interviewing 21 service users and their key-workers and 5 relatives, and sitting in on individual planning meetings. Staff training structures are also compared. In addition, operational policies for the residential services and the planning services, as well as relevant legislation from each country, is analysed in depth. The findings are discussed at each stage and comparisons made. Recommendations related to interpreting service principles are made for increasing good practice in certain aspects of the British services. The main suggestion is that consistent, legislated training for support staff in British services might contribute towards ameliorating current difficulties described by much of the contemporary research. The observation that the implementation of normalisation is by way of an approach rather than a model of service provision is highlighted.
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Olsen, Terje. "Versjoner av arbeid : Dagaktivitet og arbeid etter avviklingen av institusjonsomsorgen." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9534.
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This dissertation is a study of employment and daytime activities for people defined as having an intellectual disability. The study’s point of origin is the somewhat paradoxical situation these individuals are put into when it comes to work and daytime activities. They are on the one hand granted a disability benefit and made objects for a logic of caretaking; they are regarded as vocationally disabled and defined as outside the workforce. On the other hand, they are still included in a hegemonic work ethic with political objectives for ‘full employment’ and ‘a working-life for all’. A main objective in this study has been to discuss what different types of work and daytime activities mean to these individuals themselves; what role work and daytime activities have in their identity management and self-presentation in everyday life. The study consists of three parts. Part I outlines a historical contextualisation of the relationship between intellectual disability and participation in work and production. This part also provides a brief account for the labour market situation for these individuals today, and discusses the present situation related to the official aims of the administrative reform, which closed down the state-financed institutions for people with intellectual disabilities. Part II discusses the theoretical perspectives and methodological approach used within the study. The theoretical perspectives are developed using concepts from Dorothy Holland et.al, Pierre Bourdieu and Erving Goffman. The methodological approach is based on qualitative case studies with participatory observations and interviews within the different settings where people with intellectual disability work. Part III presents and analyses data derived from fieldwork. Central elements in the meaning of work in identity management are discussed and classified in six basic ‘key stories’ about work and daytime activity. Different forms of adapted and ordinary work are discussed in context of gender roles and social class aspects.
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Paterson, Michael C. "The social and psychological adaptation of individuals and their families to temporary but prolonged disability." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334487.
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Nguyen, Thi Xuan Thuy. "Policy, power, and the paradigm shift in the Vietnamese discourses of disability and inclusion." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106369.
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This study examines the inclusion of people with disabilities into Vietnamese social and educational systems. Using a Foucauldian perspective on discourse, power, and the governing of individuals in the modern context, I trace the shift in the global and local policies on disability and inclusion through three levels of analysis: global, national, and educational. At the global and national levels, I argue that this shift in social and educational policy has reconstructed a vision about disability and citizenship through the forces exercised by global and local institutions. This is indicated by the formulation of a rights discourse about disability, as well as by the institutionalization of social and educational programs that support people with disabilities. However, situated within the development context, the politics of inclusion is demonstrated by the influences of neo-liberal ideologies, as well as by the shift in disability policies that has been in place since the 1990s in Viet Nam. Using historiography, policy studies, visual studies, and site visits as the major methodological approaches to observe the ideological implications and the effects of inclusion on student participation, I argue that the political agenda of inclusion in Viet Nam in the current context is associated with neo-liberal ideologies of governmentality and modern development. This is demonstrated by the re-formulation of policies and laws which foster individual rights, in line with economic development, and the institutional process of normalizing people with disabilities through social and political programs. The fusion of global and local ideologies of citizenship entitlement, normalization, and development has the effect of re-constructing inclusion and exclusion in the Vietnamese context of social change. Within the process of institutional change, the educational system plays an essential role in fostering inclusion. Inclusive education forms an integral part of this social process. The contemporary discourse of inclusive education in Vietnamese education is filled with echoes of the special education discourse of the past and the rights and development discourses in the present. This discourse institutionalizes the politics of inclusion through the provision of educational programs for children with disabilities in public education. However, the inclusion of students with disabilities into public education, driven by neo-liberal ideologies, has continued to perpetuate exclusion in education. Thus, I argue that inclusion is challenged by the exclusionary policies and practices, as well as by the reconstruction of policies which entitle new forms of exclusion in education. Finally, by mapping out the re-conceptualization of disability discourse in the modern context, I argue that our knowledge about individual difference is not objective, natural, or free of bias. It is, rather, a process socially, historically, and politically constructed by our values, beliefs, and social action. Thus, although inclusion has an important impact on the participation of people with disabilities in the mainstream educational system, the bio-political agenda of inclusion and management needs to be interrogated as a new way of governing disability issues in social and educational arenas. Therefore, the study constructs an historical account that opens up new ways of thinking about inclusion and exclusion in the global and local context of development, wherein education plays a part in formulating institutional policies and practices.Cette étude examine l'intégration des personnes ayant un handicap dans le système social et éducatif du Viet Nam. Partant d'une perspective foucauldienne sur les discours, la puissance et la gouvernance des individus dans le contexte moderne, je trace l'évolution des politiques globales et locales sur le handicap et l'inclusion à travers trois niveaux d'analyse, soit au plan mondial, au plan national et au plan éducatif. Plus spécifiquement, aux niveaux mondial et national, je postule que l'écart entre la politique sociale et les systèmes éducatifs a réédifié la vision envers le handicap et la citoyenneté à travers les pressions exercées par les institutions mondiales et locales. La formulation du discours des droits des personnes ayant un handicap ainsi que l'institutionnalisation des programmes sociaux et éducatifs qui les supportent montrent cet écart.Située dans le contexte du développement, la politique d'inclusion du Viet Nam semble toutefois être influencée par des idéologies néo-libérales et par les changements survenus envers les politiques du handicap qui ont été mis en place dans ce pays depuis 1990. En utilisant l'historiographie, les études politiques, les études visuelles, et les visites sur le terrain comme principales approches méthodologiques pour observer les implications idéologiques et les effets de l'inclusion sur la participation des élèves, je montre que le programme politique de l'inclusion du Viet Nam, dans le contexte actuel, est associé aux idéologies néo-libérales sur la gouvernabilité et le développement moderne. La reformulation des politiques et des lois qui favorisent les droits de l'individu parallèlement avec le développement économique et les processus institutionnels de normalisation des personnes ayant un handicap aux programmes sociaux et politiques, montrent cette association idéologique. La fusion des idéologies globales et locales sur le droit de citoyenneté, sur la normalisation et sur le développement a pour effet de reconstruire l'inclusion et l'exclusion dans le contexte du changement social au Viet Nam. Au sein du processus de changement institutionnel, le système éducatif joue un rôle essentiel dans la promotion de l'inclusion. L'éducation inclusive fait intégralement partie de ce processus social. Le discours contemporain sur l'inclusion dans le système éducatif du Viet Nam fait écho à l'ancien discours de l'éducation spécialisée et réfère également à l'actuel discours sur les droits et développement des personnes ayant un handicap. Ce discours institutionnalise la politique d'inclusion par l'intermédiaire des programmes de formation pour les élèves ayant un handicap dans l'éducation publique. Toutefois, l'intégration de ces élèves dans l'enseignement public, inspirée par les idéologies néo-libérales, a continué de favoriser l'exclusion en éducation. Ainsi, je postule que l'inclusion est mise à l'épreuve par les politiques d'exclusion, les pratiques et par la reconstruction des politiques qui autorisent de nouvelles formes d'exclusion dans l'éducation.Enfin, en traçant la re-conceptualisation des discours sur les personnes ayant un handicap dans le contexte moderne, je souligne que nos connaissances sur les différences individuelles ne sont pas objectives, naturelles, ou libres de biais. Elles sont plutôt des processus socialement, historiquement et politiquement construits par nos valeurs, nos croyances et nos actions sociales. Ainsi, quoique l'inclusion ait un impact important sur la participation des personnes ayant un handicap dans le système éducatif traditionnel, le programme biopolitique d'intégration et de gestion doit être questionné comme une nouvelle façon de gérer cette problématique d'un point de vue social et éducatif. Par conséquent, cette étude ouvre de nouvelles façons de penser l'inclusion et l'exclusion dans le contexte global et local dans lequel l'éducation joue un rôle important dans la formulation des politiques et pratiques institutionnelles.
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Epp, Timothy D. "People first voicing disability, embodied identity and social policy in Ontario /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ43422.pdf.
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Brinkley, Tanya Rosemary. "A Case Study of the United States Veterans' Disability Compensation Policy Subsystem." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3611071.
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In public policy literature, there is a lack of research that integrates social construction theory within the advocacy coalition framework, and far less is known about how these theories address policy change and processes related to programs for disabled veterans.The purpose of this study was to conduct a policy analysis to evaluate how well the needs of veterans are met through the U.S. Veterans' Disability Compensation (USVDC) program. In a case study of a city in the southeastern U.S., gaps between formulation and implementation of USVDC policy were examined. The theoretical frameworks used in this study were Hacker's formulation and implementation gap to analyze policy, Schneider and Ingram's conceptualization of social construction, and Sabatier and Weible's advocacy coalition framework. The central research question for this study explored the extent to which the USVDC program meets the needs of disabled veterans (DVs). Data consisting of over 355 USVDC formulation and implementation documents, from March 2007 through August 2013, were coded using a priori codes and content analysis methodology.Findings indicate the USVDC policy subsystem struggled to manage the claims backlog that grew to over one million claims. Between April 2013 and September 2013, an emphasis to reduce the claims backlog improved stalled policy formulation, resulting in a shift to positive social constructions for DVs.Implications for positive social change include improved collaboration between policy makers, the Veterans' Administration, and recently transitioned target group DVs, to reshape policy formulation and implementation to further improve the quality of life for sick and injured veterans when entering the USVDC policy subsystem.
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Rowbury, Claire S. J. "Parenting and visual disability : a study of mothers and infants with differing combinations of visual status." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334851.
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Heslop, Pauline. "Childhood factors associated with the self-reporting of long-standing illness, disability or infirmity in adulthood." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263919.
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Garcia, Nicholas B. "Disability and disadvantage in Ohio: A cross-county comparison of livelihood barriers among wheelchair users." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367359363.
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Amin, Aizan Sofia. "Disability and gender in the global South : the lived experiences of disabled women in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5451/.
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Disability is argued to have some relation to gender and culture. However much disability and gender research is based on data collected in the Global North, and little is known about disabled women in the Global South. This thesis therefore sets to explore how disabled women in Malaysia experience their lives. Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country located in the heart of South East Asia. It is now recognised as an upper-middle income country but was previously considered as a lower income country following its independence from Britain in 1957. Although the Malaysian government has developed significant disability provision, policies and legislations since the period of colonialism, disabled people still encounter major barriers in many aspects of their lives. More importantly research involving Malaysian disabled women is very limited and this study seeks to fill the gap.
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KOUTSOGEORGOU, ELENI. "SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITY." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/640911.
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Aim: The aim of this study was to explore structural, functional, and cognitive characteristics of social relationships of women across and within three types of disability, as well as aspects of their social participation in the wider community – barriers and facilitators of their social and physical environment in that respect. The three types of disability explored were: sensory (deafness), physical (inability to move lower limbs), and mental (psychotic disorder).
Methods: In the study participated 30 women – 10 per type of disability – aged 22-44, living in the metropolitan area of Milan (Italy), and having at least one role of relative autonomy. Qualitative semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted. All interviews were held in Italian language [or Italian Sign Language (LIS) for six deaf participants], and were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data analysis was conducted using the template analysis technique of thematic analysis. Comparisons within and across the three types of disability were performed as well.
Main findings: The findings highlighted barriers that women with disability face within their social and physical environment. In specific, it emerged that women with mental disability faced prejudice, discrimination, stigmatisation, and/or lack of empathy towards them from other people of the wider population which hinder their social participation. All women with physical disability faced barriers to social participation related to numerous accessibility hindrances of the physical environment, and most of them had also faced prejudice and mentality barriers towards them from persons of the wider population. Women with sensory disability encountered mostly barriers for social participation related to lack of resources for communication with people of the general population, whether in private or public places, when there is no sign language interpreter or subtitles, while they have also limited opportunities for employment compared to hearing persons. From comparison across types of disability various common patterns emerged. Women with mental disability appeared to have the lowest level of social participation, whereas women with physical disability the highest.
Conclusion: It appears compelling to focus on the exploration of aspects of the social relationships and social participation of persons with disability since the barriers they face relevantly are numerous, multi-faceted and related to their personal and social development. The biopsychosocial model of health and disability could be employed towards the goal of full social inclusion.
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De, Los Reyes Erica A. "Self-representation of Disability Identity and Intersectionality Through the Use of Online Blogs| A Qualitative Study." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10752203.
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The following qualitative study examines the social media’s role in the self-representation of disability identity and community. The data samples analyzed in this study are public blog posts authored and published by persons with disabilities. All postings collected were creations of authors who openly self-identified as persons with disabilities on their given webpage. The study uses snowball sampling to select 11 blog sites by authors who identify as persons with disabilities. Three samples were taken from each blog site, for a total of 33 samples; the samples included the inaugural blog which generally identifies purpose and demographic factors, and a randomly selected post from 2016 and 2017, respectively. Content analysis derived the themes of disability identity, externalization of their disability, representation, media, and intersectionality. Results indicated that social media has allowed people with disabilities to more easily access social spaces and conversations that allow them to represent and advocate for themselves. Furthermore, the unique blogging element of self-reporting allowed disability bloggers to better address the complexities of how social identities, such as gender, sexual orientation, race, and socioeconomic class, interact with one’s disability experience. Ultimately, social media is seen by people with disabilities as a valuable tool in providing representation for minority social identities that might otherwise go ignored in mainstream media.
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Passey, Clare. ""I've changed my life" : understanding what helps offenders with a learning disability to avoid reoffending." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2014. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2046/.
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This thesis aims to add to the evidence base regarding offenders with a Learning Disability (LD) living in UK communities. The thesis also aims to enhance the reader’s understanding about why offenders with a LD avoid reoffending. The first paper reviews the current literature on the community-based treatment and support of offenders with a LD. In line with social policy, effective treatment reduces reoffending. Current developments show that effective treatments are long-term Cognitive Behavioural Therapy programmes, innovative treatment components that enhance empathy and skills to problem solve, and community integration. The review highlights issues with a small sample size in the quantitative evaluations of treatment efficacy, which researchers address by stating other measures of change (e.g. community engagement and reductions in support). Throughout the literature, these measures are inconsistent and informal. Therefore, the review outlines a need to use consistent and robust methods to evaluate treatment efficacy, which could include qualitative research. The second paper employs narrative methodology to explore the reasons why, offenders with a LD do and do not reoffend. The research involves interviews with six male offenders living in the community. Analysis and interpretation suggest that offenders with a LD need to have the ability or support to make decisions to avoid reoffending. Offenders with a LD must also have meaningful relationships and engagement in the community, which they fear losing if they reoffend. The outcomes endorse community-based treatments and improving community opportunities for offenders with a LD. The third paper offers a reflective commentary focused on overcoming the barriers to completing a thesis. The barriers relate to the conduct of the literature review and the research. Overall, the thesis provides an insight into what helps offenders with a LD to avoid reoffending, with reference to the evidence base and regard to individual stories.
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Ferrie, Joanna M. "The impact of the Disability Discrimination Act Part 4 on Scottish schools." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/415/.
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This thesis aims to highlight the dilemmas within education provision for disabled pupils. This is the product of competing frameworks, coming from different historical and philosophical contexts. The Warnock Report (1978) only managed a partial transition within education for disabled pupils from segregation to inclusion. This midway stage of integration continued the bureaucratic and professional dominance over access to additional support and continued to segregate the most affected pupils despite using humanitarian and equality rhetoric to defend its position. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s this tension led to wide variation in policy interpretation throughout the UK, yet the SEN policy framework went largely unchallenged until the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA, 1995) launched the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, also known as Part 4 in 2001 (DDA, 2001). The DDA attempted to impose a rights-based model of equality on education. The survey data and qualitative in-depth interviews generated by this thesis show that the existing tension fuelled a resistance that has challenged a thorough engagement with the DDA. Further the surveys sent to schools and local authorities suggest that insufficient time was afforded the DDA Part 4 to impact on Scottish schools before new legislation was introduced and ratified in Scottish law (Additional Support for Learning Act, 2004). In-depth interviews exploring the system of complaint under the DDA Part 4 revealed a further tension between impairment effects and social expectations of discipline in schools related specifically to a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or allied conditions. In following the ethos of the social model, this thesis concludes that the DDA Part 4 failed to account for the differentiation of experience within the disabled community, and so offered little support for those most challenged by the pedagogical structures in schools. Based on the findings of this thesis, the DDA Part 4 has had little impact on Scottish schools, due in part to the tension within the competing SEN framework and timing of other policies. In addition inherent flaws within the terms of the DDA Part 4, including the omission of auxiliary aids and services from the remit of discrimination, contributed to its failure to impact on Scottish schools.
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Pongpanit, Kanravee. "A critical analysis of the themes of disability, welfare and community in the Thai documentary series Kon Kon Kon." Thesis, University of Essex, 2014. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15603/.
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The study extracts themes from ten documentary films about disabled poor individuals produced and broadcast in the television documentary series Kon Kon Kon in Thailand during 2007-2011. Recurrent themes are those focusing on individual performance and personal characteristics of resourcefulness, patience and positive attitude. These themes are argued here as demonstrating common themes of human interest stories which aim at agency empowerment or at encouraging self-change in order to gain control over structural constraints or predicaments. Such stories of personal triumphs and struggles are a main feature of media in late modernity. Late modernity is a period when human beings gain a central role and individuals are given autonomy to construct identities when those issued by traditional meta-structures such as religion, nation or gender are competing and none can hold exclusive authority any longer. However, human interest media texts represent part of a late modern contradiction: the belief in the rights of self-assertion yet the inefficient address on structural conditions conducive to the actualisation of such rights. The study then provides a commentary to the human interest stories/films about the disabled poor in Thailand. It outlines the physical and ideational conditions that contribute to poverty and social injustice experienced by a large number of people in Thailand and, in turn, to the resourcefulness and resilience of many of poor people with disabilities, such as those featured in the films. The co-evolving structural conditions relating to economic liberalism since the 1960s, the structures and politics of welfare, and socio-cultural ideologies of self-help and individualism are discussed as weaving positions and relations that the poor with disabilities are situated in. These positions and relations both influence and interact with agency and other intrinsic factors of an individual such as the nature of impairment. Thus a cultural representation of an experience of living with disability should provide an intimation of how intrinsic factors of a person with disability, such as the nature of impairment, aspirations and competence, are to a large degree influenced by and at the same time actively interact with structural forces. The account then can avoid being both overly voluntaristic and fatalistic. The former places insurmountable responsibility on an individual to do well regardless of constraints, while the latter deprives an individual of a capacity to transform or even to be reflexive of any institutionalised social relations. The thesis provides a commentary to the films, hoping to facilitate the viewing of a surface event of a heroic act of a person with disability as neither purely individualistically nor socially determined, but rather as a result of an active interaction between the social structural conditions and agency both in the past and present of her/his life.
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Welch, Melissa Jane. "Decreased Visibility: A Narrative Analysis of Episodic Disability and Contested Illness." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7378.
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In the United States alone, disability touches the lives of a tremendous amount of people. An increased prevalence of chronic illness, coupled with an aging population means it is likely and perhaps inevitable that everyone will experience disability in one way or another over the course of their lifetime. However not everyone who is disabled is recognized as such. Culturally, the narrative of “the healthy disabled person,” – or someone who is healthy, permanently, predictably, and visibly disabled renders many people with chronic and episodic pain, fatigue, and illness as unrecognizable as disabled. Even though increasing numbers of disability scholars have begun to acknowledge that the embodied experiences of disability are far more fluid than the theoretically static divisions between healthy or ill, abled or disabled allow for, there has been little research that explores the experiences that exist in between these spaces In this dissertation I use narrative analysis to examine “who counts” as disabled in the United States, and why by exploring the interconnected narratives of disability at the cultural, institutional, and personal levels of society.
In the first of three substantive chapters I examine cultural narratives about contested illness published in The New York Times between 1999 and 2016. I argue that stigmatization of episodic illness and disability occurs when the reality of lived experiences contradict the cultural assumptions and expectations; namely that health and illness, disability, and ability are natural, discrete, and static states of being for physical bodies. In the second chapter I examine institutional narratives of disability as they are told in town hall meetings for the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act. I argue that these narratives serve to distinguish between morally good people with disabilities who deserve to be protected and accommodated in the workplace, and those who would use disability as an excuse to take advantage of their employers. In the final substantive chapter, I examine how women with chronic and contested illness reconstruct their identities through narrative in an online forum. I argue that these online spaces are an important site from which these women are able to counter the stigmatization and isolation that results from the dominant narrative that portrays them as morally corrupt. In each of these three chapters I find that the shifting and unpredictable reality of bodies that appear normal, healthy, and abled sometimes, and periodically ill, impaired, and disabled others are at best culturally unrecognizable as disabled and at worst, subject to disbelief and hostility regarding their claims as such. I argue that in order to overcome the stigmatization and disbelief of invisible and episodic disability, we need a cultural reorientation towards the story of disability; one that moves away from the belief that it is something that only happens to a small number of people in society, and towards an understanding of disability as an inevitable experience for the majority of the population; and in doing so works towards a more inclusive society that is designed to meet the needs of an ever changing and diversifying population.
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Donovan, Elizabeth A. "Arab American parents' experiences of special education and disability| A phenomenological exploration." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618900.
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Within the field of school psychology there exists literature for school psychologists working with specific ethnic and linguistic groups (Frisby & Reynolds, 2005; Tomes, 2011). The Arab American population is estimated to be 3.6 million (Arab American Institute, 2012). However, there is a paucity of school psychology research on Arab American students and families (Goforth, 2011; Haboush, 2007). As active members of the special education process, school psychologists will benefit from information regarding Arab American cultural and religious beliefs about special education and disabilities. Such information will assist them in providing culturally sensitive and appropriate services to students and families.
This study utilized a phenomenological qualitative approach to illuminate Arab Americans parents' experiences with their children's encounters with the special education process and perceptions of their children's disabilities. Phenomenological data analysis revealed four core themes. First, parents attached significance to specific steps within the special education process and to cultural stigmas around special education and disabilities. Next, parents reflected on special education services and key relationships. Additionally, parents discussed their children's abilities, their understandings of special education, and their advocacy work. Finally, parents reported that their goals for their children had not changed as a result of the special education process, although the goals were tailored to their children's identified disabilities. These findings have significant implications for professionals working with Arab American students and their parents. Recommendations are made for culturally sensitive school psychology practice with Arab Americans. Suggestions are provided for further research on this important yet under-researched topic.
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Maconi, Melinda Leigh. ""I'm Not Broken": Perspectives of Students with Disabilities on Identity-making and Social Inclusion on a College Campus." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6113.
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Narratives help individuals to make sense of their lives and their everyday worlds. Within these narratives, individuals make sense of identities. Historically, people with disabilities have been depicted as helpless victims of their own bodies. However, during the twentieth century, disability rights social movements constructed a counter-narrative, stating that society’s reactions to different bodies was the real source of disability. While this was a positive status change for people with disabilities, it did not do enough to shed the status as victim. Yet many students with disabilities do not see themselves as victims. Therefore, I used narrative analysis to answer the question: “How do university students with disabilities make sense of their identities as adults with agency through narratives?” Furthermore, these narratives are not created in a vacuum. Many stories of identity-making surrounded narratives of being included or excluded from various social situations, leading to my second research question: To what extent have students with disabilities felt included/excluded in aspects of university life including clubs, organizations, sporting events, and other social aspects of the university in which other students participate? I am focusing on people with disabilities who seek accommodations, as they are acknowledging that they need help, which goes against the narrative of rugged individualism found in the United States of America. However, my research found that university students who seek accommodations do not construct themselves as victims. On the contrary, many students receiving accommodations construct narratives in which they are more hard working and more moral than other students.
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Russell, Sian. "Phantom dispositions & devalued bodies : a Bourdieusian analysis of the experiences and perceptions of stroke survivors living in the community." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2014. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/760e040e-c350-4982-b53d-f2ec91155571.
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Sherman, Michelle D. "Distress and professional impairment due to major life events and work factors among applied psychologists /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841183.
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Ollis, Cindy L. "An Evaluation of the Allocation of Funding for Assistive Technology: A case study." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/234.
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Although benefits of assistive technology (AT) to people with disabilities are widely apparent, barriers, primarily funding, still inhibit access to needed AT. All agencies receiving federal funding are required to show no discrimination with regard to age, race, disability, and gender. This case study of a state run agency providing funding for AT to enable independent living among people with disabilities involved analyzing spending data from 2003 2008 to determine who used the fund, what was purchased, and whether it was equitably distributed according to age, ethnicity, gender, and population density. Additionally variables predictive of amount spent per person were also sought. Results indicated the fund was equitably distributed according to ethnicity and gender, but not age and population density. Age, gender, population density, and device type were found to have main effects with an interaction between device type and primary cause of disability in predicting the amount spent per person. (210 pages)
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Gavério, Marco Antônio. "Estranha atração : a criação de categorias científicas para explicar os desejos pela deficiência." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2017. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8921.
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In the problematization of the insertion of the desire by disability, as sexual or identity pathologies, this project proposes an incursion into the terminology and biomedical configurations on the subject in order to understand which discourses are triggered when it is sought to discriminate as ‘sick’ those and those who seek to relate erotically to the disabled or who want to cause disabilities in their own bodies. For this, the intention is to investigate the clinical bibliography produced on devotees, pretenders and wannabes, aiming to systematize to the maximum historically the continuities and discontinuities in the creation of these 'pathological types'. Concomitantly, aiming to establish a critical dialogue with the biomedical knowledge on sexuality and disability, I propose a more theoretical theoretical incursion into one intersection between disability studies and queer theory, the so-called crip theory.
Ao problematizar as colocações do desejo pela deficiência como patologias sexuais ou identitárias essa pesquisa propõe uma incursão nas terminologias e configurações biomédicas sobre o tema a fim de compreender quais discursos são acionados quando se busca discriminar como ‘doentes’ aqueles e aquelas que buscam relacionar-se eroticamente com deficientes ou que querem causar deficiências em seus próprios corpos. Para isso, a intenção é investigar a bibliografia clínica produzida sobre devotees, pretenders e wannabes, almejando sistematizar ao máximo historicamente as continuidades e descontinuidades na criação destes ‘tipos patológicos’. Concomitantemente, almejando estabelecer um diálogo crítico com o conhecimento biomédico sobre sexualidade e deficiência, proponho uma incursão teórico bibliográfica mais pontual na intersecção entre disability studies e teoria queer, a chamada teoria crip.
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Enqvist, Charlotta, and Jensen Johanna J. ""Alla har rätt att funka olika" - eller? -En studie om framställning av funktionsnedsättning och normalitet i spelfilm." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-75490.
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This essay aims to examine how the disabled figure is represented in motion pictures and if these representations differ when the actors are disabled. It aims to shed some light on the social construction of normality and disability. The theoretical framework is that of stigma, social interaction and Crip Theory and the method we use is discourse analysis. The movies in which we examine this are as follow: Hur många lingon finns det i världen?, Hur många kramar finns det i världen?, Café de Flore and Le huitième jour. Our conclusion is that known stereotypes did not occur as much as limited course of action and the tendency to treat the disabled character as a group and not as individuals. Our result also indicates that the story of the disabled figure is not the one that is being told and how their humanity is something that has to be confirmed instead of being self-evident.
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Mason, Paul Nicholas. "Identity and friendship : the social lives of people described as having a learning disability." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36752/.
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This thesis is divided into three chapters. A general theme running throughout concerns "the social lives of people described as having a learning disability". Chapter 1 is a critical review, focusing on the literature that has sought to understand how people described as having a learning disability negotiate their identities in the routine and mundane social interactions of their lives. In contrast to earlier research, that has attempted to explore how a "learning disabled identity" is perceived and experienced through direct interviews; the literature in this area offers a different perspective in that all of the studies critiqued use Conversation Analysis [CA] as a methodology. What they illustrate is the influential role of the environment, and more specifically, the roles that professionals and staff can play in relation to empowering or disempowering those whom they support. The contributions of these studies are assessed and clinical implications and recommendations for future research are considered. Chapter 2 is a qualitative study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to explore friendship in the lives of people described as having a learning disability. For participants in the study, friendship was reported as playing an important role in their lives; however other relationships also had considerable significance. Of particular note were relationships with staff and family members. These relationships were at times spoken about as being welcomed and depended on, but at other times seen as a source of frustration. Limitations of the study are discussed, along with clinical implications and recommendations for future research. Chapter 3 is specifically related to Chapter 2, and provides a reflective account of the experience of undertaking a piece of research within the area of learning disabilities. Particular attention is given to some of the dilemmas and challenges that were encountered along the way.
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Quibell, Ruth Grace, and rquibell@swin edu au. "Unmaking the other? : discourses in intellectual disability in contemporary society." Swinburne University of Technology. Department of Sociology, 2005. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050830.133554.
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Unmaking the Other? is a qualitative sociological analysis of the discourses of intellectual
disability present in contemporary Australian society. It attempts to reveal the ways that people with intellectual disabilities 'are' for Australians. This is important because people with
intellectual disabilities have a long history of being seen as 'other' or 'not one of us'. For many
years they were kept 'out of sight, and out of mind� on the margins of our communities, locked
in institutions or hidden in sheltered workshops. Yet, during the last few decades there has been
a concerted effort to bring people with intellectual disabilities back into society. Institutions and sheltered workshops closed, and policies of inclusion, normalisation and community living were vigorously pursued. People with intellectual disabilities are now equal citizens in the eyes of the law.
But how readily have we accepted that people with intellectual disability are 'one of us'? Have
community living reforms overturned deep cultural dispositions that cast people with intellectual disabilities as 'lesser', 'defective', and lacking personhood? This thesis investigates recent community living reforms, especially the assumption that inclusion and education would
radically transform our conceptualisations of people with intellectual disabilities. To do this, it draws on contemporary social and political theory to explore how the meanings of disability are created and maintained, focusing on the Foucauldian concept of discourse. This Foucauldian
theorisation of discourse, power and knowledge informs a methodology devised to provide a
more detailed and sophisticated analysis of the meanings of intellectual disability than previous
investigations. Texts from three key social arenas are analysed for the way in which our society
constructs intellectual disability, and these analyses lead to a number of theoretical and practical conclusions.
Specifically, the main contributions of this thesis are: the identification and analysis of fourteen distinct discourses of intellectual disability, the theoretical explication of their relations to one another, and theoretical discussion of what their presence reveals about intellectual disability in today�s Australia. The findings of a variety of discursive constructions of intellectual disability suggest a complex picture in which discourses of inclusion and membership have emerged that are consistent with community living reforms, while at the same time there has been a continuation of discourses that view people with intellectual disabilities as defective humans.
Drawing on theory and empirical evidence, possibilities are suggested for further political and educational interventions into the discursive construction of people with intellectual disabilities.
The problems posed by our attempts at liberation through community living reforms are major;
this thesis contributes to this task by revealing the complexity, contradictions, and resistances
inherent in this task. What is more, it sees these findings not as causes for dismay, but as reasons for cautious hope.
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Kelly, Gabrielle Gita. "Biological citizenship in Blikkiesdorp : the case of the disability grant." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71632.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines local understandings and use of the Disability Grant in The Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area, locally referred to as Blikkiesdorp (tin can town). The study takes an ethnographic approach and focuses particularly on a group of people accessing or seeking to access Disability Grants who formed a support group as a result of the study. Findings reveal that in a context of social and economic marginalisation, there is a high reliance on government grants for survival and a particularly high demand for Disability Grants by the unemployed in Blikkiesdorp. As social assistance in South Africa is categorically targeted at particular vulnerable groups, the majority of the unemployed of working age are not eligible for social assistance. As a result, Disability Grant recipients face significant pressure from their households and the community at large to share their grants with those who cannot find unemployment but are not catered to by the social security system. It also means that disability or illness is often valued over health. Given the use of the Disability Grant as a livelihood strategy within households and the related importance of Disability Grants to individuals and families, those who receive their grants on a temporary basis engage in a struggle to reapply for grants through performances of disability and humanitarian appeals to medical doctors who, as a result, are not only burdened by high numbers of grant applications, but also pressured to make decisions that go beyond their role as medical professionals. The analysis draws on the concept of biological citizenship to explore the relationship created between illness or disability of the bodies of marginalised citizens and the potential to access to social citizenship rights, enabled through the receipt of the Disability Grant.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek aan die hand van ʼn etnografiese benadering plaaslike begrippe en gebruike van die Ongeskiktheidstoelaag in Die Simfonieweg Tydelike Hervestigingsgebied, plaaslik bekend as Blikkiesdorp. Die studie fokus op ʼn groep mense wat die Ongeskiktheidstoelaag ontvang of probeer om daartoe toegang te verkry en wat as gevolg van hul deelname aan die studie, ʼn ondersteuningsgroep gevorm het. Die bevindinge dui daarop dat in ʼn konteks van maatskaplike en ekonomiese marginalisering, daar vir oorlewing tot ʼn groot mate op staatstoelaes staatgemaak word en dat daar spesifiek onder werkloses in Blikkiesdorp ʼn groot aanvraag vir die Ongeskiktheidstoelaag is. Maatskaplike ondersteuning in Suid-Afrika word op spesifieke kategorieë kwesbare groepe gerig en die meerderheid werkloses kwalifiseer nie vir maatskaplike ondersteuning nie. Om die rede verkeer die ontvangers van die Ongeskiktheidstoelaag onder besondere druk van lede van hul huishouding en ook van ander gemeenskapslede om hul toelae te deel met werkloses wat nie deur die maatskaplike sekuriteitsisteem gedek word nie. In dié konteks gebeur dit dikwels dat ongeskiktheid of siekte bo gesondheid van waarde geag word. As gevolg van die belangrikheid van die Ongeskiktheidstoelaag vir individue en hul gesinne is diegene wat hierdie toelaag op ʼn tydelike basis ontvang, betrokke in ʼn stryd om heraansoek deur die voorstelling van ongeskiktheid teenoor en humanitêre beroepe op mediese beroepslui. Hierdie beroepslui word derhalwe nie slegs belas met ʼn groot aantal aansoeke nie, maar verkeer ook onder druk om besluite te neem wat verder as hul rol as medici strek. Die konsep biologiese burgerskap word gebruik om die verband wat geskep word tussen siekte of ongeskiktheid van die liggame van gemarginaliseerde burgers en die potensiaal vir toegang tot maatskaplike burgerskapsregte deur die ontvangs van die Ongeskiktheidstoelaag, te ontleed.
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Tupe, Debra Ann. "The Lived Experience of Caring: The Voices of Mothers of Children with Disabilities in Cardenas, Cuba." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/81759.
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Cuba's community-based health care system is both internationally renowned and the signature of the Cuban revolution. Since the time of Cuba's catastrophic economic crisis known as the Special Period in Time of Peace, the health care system has been closely linked to the state's political legitimacy and the nation's economic development. The Special Period also led to the state's self evaluation of institutional practices in health and social sectors. Lack of disability services and resources to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities and their families was a key finding of the state's assessment. The intent of this study is to present how, during Cuba's Post Special Period, structure and culture come together to help in understanding the subjective experiences of women who care for their children with disabilities in a specific context, the community of Cardenas, Cuba. The experiences of women who mother their children with disabilities were examined through survey, semi-structured interactive interviews and observation of mother-professional interactions in the rehabilitation gym of El Centro de Rehabilitacion y Neurodesarrollo, the site where this study was conducted. This study shows that structural and cultural conceptions of disability, gender, and the authority of health professionals are reflected in how mothers understand their children's conditions, enact their roles as mothers, and navigate institutional arrangements. The dominance of Cuba's health care within the society strongly influences the construction of disability as strictly a medical phenomenon. The continuation of significant structural economic constraints clearly has an impact on the methods mothers use to gain resources for their children and access services. Cultural expectations that mothers with children with disabilities embody traditional "good mother" archetype contradict the state's legislated position of gender equality. This study reveals group differences in how mothers accept or reject the dominant discourse surrounding disability by examining how they explain their children's conditions, the visions they hold for their children and their role in promoting their children's progress. Within group differences are explained by individual location in the social structure, class. The three different approaches that mothers take on in the care of their children are described as provincial, community or cosmopolitan. These categories are distinguished by mothers' educational level, geographical location and their access to material and informational resources. We can conclude that Cuba's economic crisis and a recovery plan that included capitalist initiatives played a role in augmenting economic stratification, resulting in a new but somewhat hidden class structure within this socialist nation. Thus the everyday lived experience of mothers who care for their children with disability in Cuba is influenced by the society's structural and cultural arrangements.
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Egner, Justine E. "An Intersectional Examination of Disability and LGBTQ+ Identities In Virtual Spaces." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7149.
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This dissertation is a multi-methodological project that examines the experiences of being both LGBTQ+ and disabled from an intersectional perspective through narratives constructed in virtual spaces. In this project, I address the question ‘how do individuals who identify as both disabled/chronically ill and LGBTQ+ negotiate these often contradictory identities?’ I also complexify this intersectional analysis by examining how LGBTQ+/disabled identities are constructed in relation to race, class, and gender. Additionally, by conducting virtual ethnography as the primary method of data collection, I explore questions pertaining to how members of LBGTQ+ and disability online communities engage in virtual identity construction and virtual community building. Through these projects I seek to bring disability and LGBTQ+ identities into the intersectionality literature and discourse that has frequently excluded, and at times even ignored, these positionalities.
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Gibilisco, Peter. "The political economy of disablement : a sociological analysis /." Connect to thesis, 2005. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001483.
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Norkienė, Lina. "Regėjimo negalią turinčių asmenų socialinės integracijos proceso ir konkurencingumo atviroje darbo rinkoje aspektai." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070816_174307-62834.
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Tiriamasis darbas, skirtas regos negalią turinčių asmenų situacijai dabartinėje visuomenėje ištirti. Nagrinėjami jau atlikti šioje srityje tyrimai, ir bendros darbines gyventojų nuostatas tiriančios apybraižos. Gilinamasi į regos negalės specifiką, įstayminės bazės teikaimas galimybes, jos pritaikymą, istorinę regos negalią turinčių asmenų įdarbinimo raidą, jų ugdymo paradigmas, teorines neregių ugdymo nuostatas, neregių ir silpnaregių mokinių rengimą gyvenimui, profesinį orientavimą. Kadangi šiuolaikiniame darbe labai svarbus yra kūrybinis darbuotojų potencialas - nagrinėjamos regos tiriamųjų meno suvokimo ir jų kūrybiniai sugebėjimai. Teorinį šio darbo pagrindą sudaro prof. R. Grigo įtampos laukų teorija. Apžvelgiamos ir kitos sociologinės bei ugdymo teorijų paradigmos, jų pritaikomumas tirti problemą.
Tyrime naudota kiekybinė anketinė Lietuvos Respublikos RNT (regos negalią turinčių) asmenų apklausa ir kokybinio metodo giluminis interviu su sėkmingiausiai įvairiose veiklos srityse dirbančiais RNT žmonėmis. Nagrinėjamos pagrindinės problemos: RNT asmenų ugdymo ir rengimo darbo rinkai potencialios galimybės, visuomenės pasiruošimas priimti RNT darbuotojus, aplinkos pritaikymas, pačių neįgaliųjų nuostatos ir pasirengimas darbui atviroje darbo rinkoje, problemos, iškylančios darbiniuose kolektyvuose.
Tyrimo duomenys leidžia daryti išvadas, kad visuomenė turi per mažai žinių apie RNT asmenų darbines kompetencijas. Specializuotos šalies ugdymo įstaigos nepakankamai parengia... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]This study examines the situation of people having sight disability in modern society. It analyses the data of various researches in this area and general outlines in residents’ attitudes towards employment. Theoretical background of this paper is a theory of tension fields by professor R.Grigas. In this study societal paradigms and their applicability to analysis of issues are reviewed. Disability is a physical or mental condition that makes it difficult for someone to use a part of their body properly, or to learn normally. It can be caused by physical, mental or sensory disorders, or by inappropriate therapy. These disorders, states or illnesses can be chronic or transient. Integration is systematic meeting of people who have different abilities for purposeful activity. Social integration is characteristics of the unity of different social groups’ and individual aims. Rehabilitation is coordinated and complex use of medical, social, pedagogical and professional means to achieve one’s maximal functional activity. Attitude is a way of thinking or acting. Attitude can be formed immediately or during a longer period of time acquiring special experience. In the study is used quantitative interviewing of people who live in Lithuania and have sight disability and deep interviewing of those who are successful in their activities. The main issues that are analyzed: how our society is prepared to accept workers having sight disability, how surrounding is adapted for them, how... [to full text]
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Richardson, Emily. "Peer Harassment of Students with Disabilities| A Legal Standard Analysis." Thesis, Indiana University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13811630.
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This dissertation examines the special issue of peer harassment of students with disabilities through a legal lens, exploring the legal standards used in cases involving three federal statutes—Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (“Section 504”), the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ("IDEA"). Using legal research methods, litigation trends regarding the number of cases and the legal standard used and applied were explored. There has been no Supreme Court case on the legal standard to be used under Section 504, the ADA, or IDEA in peer harassment of students with disabilities, and circuit courts of appeals have not reached consensus on which legal standard should apply. Instead, courts have applied several different legal standards, including the Davis standard, a modified Davis standard, bad faith and gross misjudgment, deliberate indifference, disability discrimination, intentional discrimination, and denial of a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). This dissertation synthesizes the relevant legal standards used in each federal circuit and identifies trends that might guide the future of this type of litigation.
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Lantz, Elise. "Des marginalités encadrées : étude des rapports au handicap dans différentes configurations associatives du monde du cirque contemporain français." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014MON14001.
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Le monde du cirque contemporain, qui a émergé en France à la fin des années 70, et qui a toujours entretenu une certaine marginalité, révèle les rapports ambivalents qu'entretient notre société à l'égard du handicap. Nous avons adopté une approche relationniste du handicap pour réaliser une étude exploratoire quantitative, puis une étude qualitative de onze associations circassiennes. Nous avons mis à jour quatre types de rapports à la différence : certaines associations organisent un Regroupement et Mise à distance des différences, qui sépare les personnes qui ont des limitations de capacités intellectuelles des autres pratiquants, par la création d'un véritable secteur de cirque spécialisé; une majorité d'associations accepte également la participation de personnes qui ont peu d'incapacités dans des pratiques de cirque normalisées, par un processus d'assimilation, traduisant une hiérarchisation des comportements; dans certaines associations professionnelles, quelques artistes aux corps hors-normes sont mis en avant, par leurs différences corporelles créatives; seule une des associations étudiées propose une forme originale de participation, acceptant des personnes ayant tous types de capacités et incapacités pour des pratiques inclusives, révélant une mixité créative. Le cirque contemporain a ainsi mis en place un secteur spécialisé, qui reproduit le détour ségrégatif organisé par les secteurs médico-sociaux et psychiatriques. Il propose un simulacre d'intégration hors du monde du handicap, tout en instituant une mise à distance de la différence. Cette participation au processus de ségrégation est masquée par la mise en avant d'artistes ayant des incapacités motrices et l'utilisation créative de leurs différences corporelles, à condition qu'ils démontrent un contrôle exceptionnel du corps. Une unique association combine l'organisation de pratiques inclusives et le rejet affirmé de sa propre institutionnalisation. Pour les autres, ni le statut associatif, ni la posture de marginalité, ne produisent des formes originales de participation pour les personnes ayant des limitations de capacités. On assiste à une polarisation du rapport à la norme, la marginalité « négative » des personnes « handicapées » – au sens d'un manque de contrôle des comportements – est encadrée par une prise en charge globale alors que la marginalité« positive » des différences corporelles est encadrée comme une œuvre, par une mise en piste spectaculaire, symbole de la marginalité renouvelée du cirque contemporainThe contemporary circus emerged in France during the late 70s and so far it has taken up a marginal position. Itsframework reveals the ambivalent relationship between society and disability.A research approach in which disability is the result of interaction between individuals and their environments wasadopted. We conducted a wide angle quantitative study about circus associations throughout France, followed by aqualitative study centered on eleven circus associations. We established four relationship patterns with respect todissimilarities: some associations organize a Clustering and segregation, that separates people with intellectual disabilitiesfrom other participants, with the creation of a specialized circus programs; a majority of associations also accepts theparticipation of people who carries low impact disabilities in normalized circus practices, by a process of assimilation,reflecting a Behavioral prioritization ; in associations that regroup professional performers, few artists with unconventionalbody types are emphasized by their Creative corporal dissimilarity ; only one among all organizations studied offers anoriginal pattern of participation, where people with all types of abilities and disabilities are united in inclusive practices, bythe virtue of a creative mosaic.Contemporary circus has established specialized programs that reproduce the segregation utilized in the medicosocialand psychiatric sectors. It proposes a simulated integration aimed to the world outside of the disability, whileestablishing a distancing of the difference. Recurrent highlighting of artists with physical disabilities that creatively usestheir corporal differences and demonstrates exceptional body control masks this participation in the process of segregation.A single organization combines inclusive practices and affirmatively rejects its own institutionalization. For others,neither association status nor the posture of marginality produces original forms of participation for people withdisabilities.Norm is polarized: “Negative” marginality of the “disabled” – those that have a lack of behavioral control – isframed by a global care, while the “positive” marginality of corporal differences is framed as a fine art piece by spectacularstaging, the symbol of the renewed marginality of the contemporary circus
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Purdue, David. "Conflict and consensus within the paralympic field : a sociological investigation of an elite disability sport competition." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8367.
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This research provides a sociological investigation of an elite disability sport competition known as the Paralympic Games. A quadrennial multi-sport competition for individuals with specific impairments, the Paralympic Games, is explored in this thesis through the method of semi-structured interviews. Individuals interviewed included current and former Paralympians, active and retired disability sport administrators as well as social researchers of disability and disability sport. A number of themes surface in this research which identifies and begins to explore the relationships between the core constituents which influence the Paralympic Games. Assertions about which bodies have a legitimate claim to be involved in Paralympic sport, alongside how impaired bodies are used to create an elite disability sport spectacle, such as the Paralympic Games, remain contested by members and organisations that influence, through consensus and conflict, the development of the Paralympic Movement. The Paralympic Games, of course, has not developed in isolation, but in the context of wider developments across sport. In relation to this the positive and negative influences of the International Olympic Committee upon the Paralympic Games are considered. At the core of the thesis, critical analysis has been generated through the use of the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu. In particular Bourdieu's related concepts of habitus, capital and field, in conjunction with previous research into the Paralympic Movement and the extant literature in the field of disability studies, are used to illuminate the existence of a Paralympic field. The possible manifestation of a Paralympic field is explored through the empirical data collected. As a result this thesis highlights the nexus between the sociology of sport and disability studies. Through the fusion of these fields, and by grounding them in a robust theoretical framework, it is hoped that this research will add positively to the literature in this emerging specialism of the sociology of disability sport.
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Soldatic, Karen Maree. "Disability and the Australian neoliberal workfare state (1996-2005)." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Education, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0190.
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Australia, like other Western liberal democracies, has undergone extensive social policy restructuring as a result of neoliberalism. While neoliberalism had its genesis with Australian Labor governments during the 1980s, it secured the status of orthodoxy under the radical conservatism of the Liberal Coalition government (1996 - 2007). Under the leadership of Prime Minister John Howard a widespread campaign was instigated to advance neoliberal social policy measures across all spheres of social life, leading to the dismantling of rights for a diverse range of social groups including women, refugees, people with disabilities and Indigenous Australians. The restructuring of social provisioning with the intensification of neoliberalism was largely driven by workfare a key domestic social project of neoliberal global restructuring. The thesis examines the Australian experience of workfare and the primary areas of contestation and struggle that emerged in this environment for the Australian Disability Movement during the peak period of workfare restructuring for 'disability' (1996 2005). The thesis draws on the work of critical disability theory to discuss the bivalent social collective identity of disability as it cuts through the politics of recognition and the politics of distribution. From here, the thesis engages with sociological work on emotions, bringing together theories of disgust and disability. The thesis demonstrates that there is a synergy between disability and disgust that informs the moral economy of disability; framing, shaping and articulating able-bodied disabled relations. Drawing on the policy process method the research involved extensive qualitative interviews with members of the Australian Disability Movement, disabled people involved in workfare programs, service providers and their peak organisations, families, as well as the policy elite charged with the responsibility of disability workfare restructuring. Additionally, the study incorporated a range of documents including parliamentary Hansards, key policy texts, government media releases, and publicly available information from disability specialist services and the disability movement. The analytical centrality of policy processes highlighted the strategic interrelationship between macro-structural policy discourses and practices and the role of policy actors as agents, including those collective agents engaged in mediating disability social relations. Three dominant themes emerged from the analysis of the data: movement politics, representation and participation; emotions and processes of moralisation; and finally, the role of temporality in inscribing (disabled) bodies with value. Each of the findings chapters is dedicated to explicating these mechanisms and the effects of these discourses and practices on disabled people involved in workfare programs and the disability movement's struggles for respect, recognition and social justice.
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Simpson, Murray Kinnoch. "Idiocy as a regime of truth : an archaeological study of intellectual disability through the work of Edouard Seguin, William Ireland, and Alfred Binet and Th. Simon." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390680.
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Paterson, Kevin. "An examination of the social model of disability and the politics of everyday life : the case for a sociology of impairment." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443156.
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Bryden, Anne Marie. "Navigating Resources after Spinal Cord Injury: The Utility of Human Rights." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1596613461603617.
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Watermeyer, Brian Paul. "Conceptualising psycho-emotional aspects of disablist discrimination and impairment : towards a psychoanalytically informed disability studies." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1176.
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Thesis (DPhil (Psychology))—University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the 1970s, the international disability movement has galvanised around the "social model" of disability, as an adversarial response to traditional, individualising "medical" accounts of disablement. The model foregrounds "disablist ideology", identifying systematic exclusion and discrimination as central mediators of disabled life. Latterly, feminist authors within disability studies have problematised the "arid" materialist orientation of the social model, for its eschewing of personal and psychological aspects of disability, and poor theorising of embodiment. Social model orthodoxy construes the psychological as epiphenomenal, diversionary, and potentially misappropriated in the buttressing of pathologising accounts of disablement. A legacy of "traditional" psychoanalytic theorising on disability implies causal links between bodily difference and psychopathology, eliding a critical interrogation of oppression in mediating the severely marginal social and economic destiny of the disabled minority. The new "critical" psychoanalytic approach to disability interprets broad social responses to disablement as the enactment of defences engaged in reaction to the universal unconscious existential conflicts evoked by disability images. The present work seeks to elaborate the integration of psychoanalysis into disability studies, towards development of a politically situated psychology of disability oppression, which creates theoretical links connecting ideology with the nature of individual subjectivity. Conceptual ideas to begin describing the psycho-emotional aspects of disablist oppression and impairment were developed via an integration of clinical data with a renewed, psychoanalytically informed critical synthesis of disability-related research from a range of disciplines. Clinical data was gathered via psychoanalytically oriented group psychotherapy with severely physically impaired university students. Full transcriptions and in-depth fieldnotes were utilised as a record of data, which was then analysed via interpretive, psychoanalytic and "interpretive auto-ethnographic" methods. Follow-up interviews were held to assess the resonance and utility of new concepts. A range of theoretical contributions was combined in illuminating the modernist cultural and political underpinnings of oppressive responses to the impaired body, and integrated with accounts of the psychological and relational predicaments of disablism gleaned from the clinical record. Topics drawn from literature, critically evaluated, developed and re-synthesised included narcissistic culture, the family, "medicalisation", social mirroring, internalised oppression, liminality, and representations of disability in charity, art and modern bioethics. The nature of countertransference dynamics in therapeutic work with disabled people was considered. Key concepts from the clinical data were developed and progressively reformulated; these included the distortion of boundaries, the discourse of loss, control, independence, identity, complicity, trauma, and the imperative to silencing the subjective experience of disabled life.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die internasionale gestremdheidsbeweging mobiliseer sedert die 1970’s rondom die “sosiale model” van gestremdheid - in afwysende reaksie op tradisionele individualiserende, “mediese” diskoerse. Dié model plaas die kollig op “gestremdheidsideologie”, en identifiseer sistematiese uitsluiting en diskriminasie as die sentrale bemiddelaars van die gestremde lewe. In die laaste tyd word die “droëe” materialistiese benadering van die sosiale model egter deur feministiese outeurs binne gestremdhiedsstudies geproblematiseer, spesifiek as synde ontwykend van die persoonlike en sielkundige aspekte van gestremdheid, en vanweë die model se swak teoretisering van beliggaming. Die ortodokse sosiale model beskou die sielkundige as ‘n epifenomeen, ’n afleiding, en potensieël kaapbaar in diens van patologiserende narratiewe oor gestremdheid. ‘n Nalatenskap van “tradisionele” psigoanalitiese teoretisering oor gestremdheid impliseer kousale verbande tussen liggaamlike alteriteit en psigopatologie, wat lei tot die weglating van ‘n kritiese ondervraging van verdrukking in die bemiddeling van die uiters marginale sosiale en ekonomiese lotsbestemming van die gestremde minderheidsgroep. Die nuwe “kritiese” psigo-analitiese benadering tot gestremdheid interpreteer breë sosiale response op gestremdheid as die aktivering van verdedigingsmeganismes in reaksie op universele onbewuste eksistensiële konflikte wat deur beelde van gestremdheid na vore geroep word. In hierdie verhandeling word daar gepoog om die integrasie van psigo-analise binne gestremdheidstudies uit te dy, en ‘n aanset te lewer tot die ontwikkelling van ’n polities-gesitueerde sielkunde van gestremdheidsverdrukking, waardeur teoretiese verbande tussen ideologie en die aard van individuele subjektiwiteit gelê word. ‘n Aanvanklike begripsapperatuur ten einde die beskrywing van die psigo-affektiewe aspekte van gestremdheidsverdrukking en –benadeling aan die gang te sit, is deur middel van ’n integrasie van kliniese data met ’n hernude, psigoanalities skatpligtige kritiese sintese van gestremdheidsgeoriënteerde navorsing in ‘n verskeidenheid van vakdissiplines ontwikkel. Kliniese data is met behulp van psigo-analitiesgerigde groepspsigoterapiesessies met fisiek swaar gestremde universiteitstudente versamel. Volledige transkripsies en uitgebreide veld-aantekeninge is gebruik as data-rekord, wat dan vervolgens deur middel van interpretatiewe, psigo-analitiese en “interpretatiewe autoetnografiese” metodes geanaliseer is. Opvolg-onderhoude is gehou ten einde die mate van weerklank en bruikbaarheid van die nuwe konsepte te evalueer. ’n Verskeidenheid teoretiese bydrae is gekombineer ten einde die modernistiese kulturele en politieke stutte van verdrukkende response tot die belemmerde liggaam te belig, en is voorts geïntegreer met beskrywings van die sielkundige en verhoudingsmatige verknorsings van gestremdheid wat uit die kliniese rekord vergader is. Onderwerpe wat uit die literatuur ontleen, krities geëvalueer, ontwikkel en hersintetiseer is, sluit in die kultuur van narcisme, die gesin, “medikalisering”, sosiale spieëling, geïnternaliseerde verdrukking, liminaliteit, sowel as uitbeeldings van gestremdheid in barmhartigheidsdiens, kuns en bio-etiek. Die aard van teenoordrag-dinamieke in terapeutiese werk met gestremdes is ook in oorweging geneem. Sleutelbegrippe ontleen aan die kliniese data is ontwikkel en vootdurend herformuleer; hierdie sluit in die verwringing van grenslyne, die diskoers van verlies, van beheer, onafhanklikheid, identiteit, medepligtigheid, trauma, en die imperatief tot stilswye oor die subjektiewe ervaring van die gestremde lewe.
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Murillo, Lafuente Iblin Edelweiss. "Experiences of Bolivian Disabled Activist Women." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1588613995048859.
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Faria, Raclene Ataide de. "Autorrepresentação de pessoas com deficiência intelectual: a concepção sobre a deficiência e os “sonhos” para o futuro." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8750.
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This research, carried out from a qualitative approach and with data collected through in-depth interviewing, has as its main objective to know the representations that young people with intellectual disabilities (ID) have concerning their disabilities and the aspirations that they have for their personal future. With this intent, ten people with ID were interviewed. They live in various regions of the city of Goiânia/GO, have formal schooling experiences and their ages range from sixteen to thirty-three years old. The theoretical basis is grounded, among others, on American (2010), Berger and Luckmann (2003), Foucault (1995, 2001), Glat (1989), Lobo (2015), Meireles (2014), Moscovici (2007), Pessotti (2012), Silva (1986), Vaginay (2012) and Vygotsky (2012). The bibliographic research revealed that historically people with ID have experienced situations of exclusion, segregation and social silencing. Representations of them, for centuries, have been based on conceptions of supernaturality or subhumanity. The emergence of more dignified social and scientific representations occurred mainly in the second half of the twentieth century. In Brazil, the social effects of such representations, especially in their personal lives, were intensified with the emergence of inclusive education in the late 1990s. Data analysis indicates that awareness of the disability is not generalized; they perceive their singularities, but do not relate them to ID; they explain it, as a rule, through capacities, not difficulties and/or limitations; they experience freedom and interactive possibilities, including virtual ones, similar to those of their age peers; they are happy people; they are aesthetically similar to any young person; they strive to forge a positive social image of themselves; they aspire to have an ordinary life regarding work, money, a quiet life, profession, home and family.
Esta pesquisa, realizada com enfoque qualitativo e com coleta de dados por meio de entrevistas de profundidade, tem como principal objetivo conhecer as representações que jovens com deficiência intelectual (DI) têm a respeito desta deficiência e as aspirações que têm para o seu futuro pessoal. Com este intento, foram entrevistadas dez pessoas com DI, residentes em diversas regiões da cidade de Goiânia/GO, com experiência de escolarização formal e com idades entre dezesseis e trinta e três anos. O aporte teórico foi composto, dentre outros, por American (2010), Berger e Luckmann (2003), Foucault (1995, 2001), Glat (1989), Lobo (2015), Meireles (2014), Moscovici (2007), Pessotti (2012), Silva (1986), Vaginay (2012) e Vygotski (2012). A pesquisa bibliográfica desvelou que historicamente a pessoa com DI tem experienciado situações de exclusão, de segregação e de silenciamento social. As representações a respeito dela, por séculos, embasaram-se em concepções de sobrenaturalidade ou de sub-humanidade. A emergência de representações sociais e científicas mais dignificantes ocorreu principalmente na segunda metade do século XX. No Brasil, seus efeitos sociais, sobretudo na vida pessoal delas, foram intensificados com a emergência da educação inclusiva em fins dos anos de 1990. A análise dos dados denota que a consciência da deficiência não é generalizada; percebem as suas singularidades, mas não as relacionam à DI; a explicam, via de regra, por meio das capacidades e não das dificuldades e/ou limitações; vivenciam liberdades e possibilidades interativas, inclusive virtuais, semelhantes às dos seus pares etários; são pessoas felizes; esteticamente, são similares a qualquer jovem; se empenham em forjar uma imagem social positiva de si; aspiram ter uma vida comum no que concerne ao trabalho, ao dinheiro, à vida tranquila, à profissão, à casa e à família.