Critical Disability Studies

Goodley, Dan; Lawthom, Rebecca; Liddiard, Kirsty; Cole, Katherine Runswick

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-51018-1_24

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“…Community psychology has an important contribution to make to the field of disability: It can help to develop and critically reflect on psychological concepts and theoretical ideas as they pertain to the real world experience of social exclusion by disabled people. Contemporary, critical disability studies are currently being invigorated through innovative work by psychologists, which take seriously the relationship between the personal and the political and explore personal investments in dominant constructions of disability (Ecclestone & Goodley, ; Goodley, Lawthom, Liddiard, & Runswick‐Cole, ; Watermeyer, ).…”

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Troubling stereotypes: South African elite disability athletes and the paradox of (self‐)representation

Bantjes

Swartz

Botha

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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Despite the increasing prominence of competitive disability sport, the literature on the experiences of disabled athletes, particularly in low‐ and middle‐ income countries, is sparse. We aimed to describe the participation experiences of a group of athletes in competitive disability sport in South Africa, as well as exploring the ways they talk about issues of identity and self‐representation in the context of elite disability sport. Data were collected via in‐depth, semistructured interviews with a purposefully sampled group of 22 athletes competing at a national level. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants reported that disability sport is personally transformative and that sport allows them to experience their bodies as capable and to feel a sense of pride. Participant narratives reinforced supercrip discourses and both reproduced stereotypes and challenged them. Participants experienced pride and social inclusion by reproducing aspects of supercrip discourse. The findings imply that participating in competitive disability sport can reinforce stereotypes about disability by strengthening supercrip discourses while simultaneously providing a context for internal personal transformation and private political struggles.

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Troubling stereotypes: South African elite disability athletes and the paradox of (self‐)representation

Bantjes

Swartz

Botha

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Alongside these debates, discussions around the Politics of Disablement (Oliver and Barnes, ) and the intersection of identity, politics, agency and oppression (see Goodley, ; Goodley, Lawthom, Liddiard, et al., ) pave the way for a re‐examination of ‘wicked problems in special and inclusive education’ (Armstrong, ). It is, perhaps, no surprise that many post‐Soviet contexts, including the Republic of Armenia, are currently under‐represented in these debates.…”

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Armenian teachers’ dichotomous perspectives on children with high‐functioning autism

Allan

Hallett

2019

Research in Spec Educ Needs

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This article uses the views of student teachers and serving teachers from a post‐Soviet context in order to better understand current thinking around teachers’ perceptions of children with what might be termed ‘hidden’ disabilities. Drawing on social comparison theory, and adopting a phenomenographical approach, the study explores teachers’ perspectives of autism in the Republic of Armenia, offering an insight into the impact of its social, cultural and political history. Whilst serving teachers demonstrated contrastive and downward comparisons when presented with a vignette of a young person with Asperger's Syndrome, student teachers expressed more connective comparisons. The data suggest, then, that Armenian student teachers represent progressive attitudinal change towards individuals with disabilities. These results also shed light on how social comparison theory might be used to tease out assumptions and taken‐for‐granted attitudes in the global West.

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“…A key contribution of disability studies to academic practices is its insistence on the value of insider narratives for understanding the issues at stake -the slogan 'nothing about us without us' has profound implications for methods and for knowledge (Goodley et al 2017), for what kinds of data we take seriously. But as the field moves, appropriately so, to a more global politics of action, disability scholars need to appraise more carefully the investments of the more powerful (which includes us as non-disabled white South Africans) in how the less powerful are presented and called upon to participate in the production of knowledge of disability.…”

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