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The new politics of disablement / by Michael Oliver and Colin Barnes.

By: Oliver, Michael, 1945- [author.].
Contributor(s): Barnes, Colin, 1946- [author.] | Oliver, Michael, 1945-. Politics of disablement.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: [Rev.] ed.Description: vii, 240 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780333945674 (paperback).Subject(s): Sociology of disability | People with disabilities -- Government policy | People with disabilities -- Civil rights | Health and Wellbeing | Society & culture: general | Disability: social aspects | Social work | Politics & governmentDDC classification: 305.908 | 305.908 OLI
Contents:
Part I: Concepts and origins -- The importance of definitions in the disability debate -- The origins of disability studies -- The rise of disabling capitalism -- Part II: Representations and discourses -- Ideology and the disabled individual -- Constructing disabled identities -- Creating the disability problem -- Part III: Agendas and actions -- Dealing with the disabling society -- Resisting the disabling society -- Doing disability studies.
Summary: This text presents an agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.
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Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition which reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.

Rev. ed. of: The politics of disablement : a sociological approach / Michael Oliver. 1990.

Bibliography: (pages 187-227) and index.

Part I: Concepts and origins -- The importance of definitions in the disability debate -- The origins of disability studies -- The rise of disabling capitalism -- Part II: Representations and discourses -- Ideology and the disabled individual -- Constructing disabled identities -- Creating the disability problem -- Part III: Agendas and actions -- Dealing with the disabling society -- Resisting the disabling society -- Doing disability studies.

This text presents an agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure. A timely new edition reignites the debate on the nature of disability and reasserts the political power of the academic field of disability studies.

CIT Module SOCI 8004 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part I Concepts and Origins
  • 1 The Importance of Definitions in the Disability Debate (p. 11)
  • Introduction (p. 11)
  • Setting the Scene (p. 13)
  • The Importance of Definitions (p. 14)
  • Official Definitions of Disability (p. 16)
  • Challenging Official Definitions (p. 20)
  • Official Responses to this Challenge (p. 24)
  • Rethinking Disability Definitions (p. 27)
  • Conclusion (p. 31)
  • 2 The Origins of Disability Studies (p. 32)
  • Introduction (p. 32)
  • Anthropology and Disability (p. 32)
  • Sociology and Disability (p. 39)
  • Revisionist Sociology (p. 41)
  • Alternative Sociology and Disability (p. 43)
  • Developing a Social Theory of Disablement (p. 48)
  • Conclusion (p. 51)
  • 3 The Rise of Disabling Capitalism (p. 52)
  • Introduction (p. 52)
  • Creating Disability (p. 53)
  • Constructing Disability (p. 57)
  • The State and Disability (p. 60)
  • Defining and Dealing with Disability (p. 61)
  • Disability in the Twentieth Century (p. 65)
  • Explaining Disability Responses (p. 67)
  • Rationalizing Disability (p. 70)
  • Conclusion (p. 72)
  • Part II Representations and Discourses
  • 4 Ideology and the Disabled Individual (p. 77)
  • Introduction (p. 77)
  • Ideology and the Individual (p. 77)
  • Individualism and Disability (p. 79)
  • The Ideological Exclusion of Disabled Individuals (p. 82)
  • The Medicalization of Disability (p. 83)
  • The Medicalization of Everyday Life (p. 86)
  • The Normalizing Society (p. 88)
  • Normality and Eugenics (p. 92)
  • Conclusion (p. 96)
  • 5 Constructing Disabled Identities (p. 98)
  • Introduction (p. 98)
  • Culture, Impairment and Disability (p. 100)
  • Disabling Imagery in Recent History (p. 102)
  • Resisting Disabling Imagery (p. 104)
  • Poverty Inequality and Identity (p. 107)
  • Disabling Culture and Identity Formation (p. 110)
  • Social Divisions and Identity (p. 112)
  • Conclusion (p. 117)
  • 6 Creating the Disability Problem (p. 119)
  • Introduction (p. 119)
  • Defining the Disability Problem (p. 120)
  • Disabling Social Policies (p. 121)
  • Reconstructing the Disability Problem (p. 123)
  • Creating the Disability Problem (p. 125)
  • The Idea of Dependency (p. 126)
  • Creating Economic Dependency (p. 128)
  • Legislating for Dependency (p. 131)
  • Promoting Dependency in Practice (p. 133)
  • Internalizing Dependency (p. 137)
  • Conclusion (p. 139)
  • Part III Agendas and Actions
  • 7 Dealing with the Disabling Society (p. 143)
  • Introduction (p. 143)
  • Capitalism in Crisis (p. 144)
  • Tackling the Crisis-the Market (p. 147)
  • Tackling the Crisis-Rights (p. 148)
  • Tackling the Crisis-Politics (p. 154)
  • Tackling the Crisis-Internationalism (p. 157)
  • Conclusion (p. 159)
  • 8 Resisting the Disabling Society (p. 161)
  • Introduction (p. 161)
  • Transformation or Resistance (p. 162)
  • The Social Model (p. 164)
  • Independent Living (p. 165)
  • Disabling Corporatism (p. 169)
  • Identity Politics (p. 171)
  • New Social Movements (p. 172)
  • Conclusion (p. 175)
  • 9 Doing Disability Studies (p. 177)
  • Introduction (p. 177)
  • Disciplining Disability Studies (p. 177)
  • Locating Disability Studies (p. 178)
  • Debating Disability Studies (p. 179)
  • Politicizing Disability Studies (p. 182)
  • Rescuing Disability Studies: The Wind is Still Blowing (p. 184)
  • Bibliography (p. 187)
  • Index (p. 229)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michael Oliver is Emeritus Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. He has published widely on the field of disability and disability studies, and was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the United Kingdom.
Colin Barnes is Professor of Disability Studies and Founder of the Centre for Disability Studies (formerly the Disability Research Unit) at the University of Leeds, UK. He also established the Disability Press and the Disability Archive UK.