“…We support recently emergent contentions and new ways of thinking about 'disability' presented by disability researchers and activists over the last decades, which locate much of 'the problem' in the surrounding environment, including societal structures, attitudes, mechanisms, relationships and institutions (Kristiansen, 1993;Van Hove & Roets, 2000). This includes the notions of some scholars who place 'disability' in an economic context and in the wider economic needs of materialism and capitalism (Oliver, 1996;Oliver & Barnes, 1998;Roulstone, 2002;Barnes & Mercer, 2003):…”