Postmodern synergistic knowledge creation: extending the boundaries of disability studies

Simmons, Ben; Blackmore, Theo; Bayliss, Phil

doi:10.1080/09687590802469222

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“…Similarly, in research of Simmons, Blackmore, and Bayliss (2008) the situated nature of disability, inclusion and exclusion was revealed. Children should have the chance to evolve from being a recipient of supports to becoming an agent of their own supports.…”

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‘I want support, not comments’: children's perspectives on supports in their life

Mortier

Desimpel

Schauwer

et al. 2011

Disability & Society

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Supports are a major part of the daily lives of children with special educational needs who participate in general education schools. Little attention has been paid to how they experience supports. Six children and their peers who were interviewed appreciated supports because they remove restrictions in activities due to the impairment.However, the analysis also shows how these positive supports can have negative psycho-emotional repercussions, and that they are less focused on addressing disabling barriers. The children"s accounts demonstrate the ambiguous and situated nature of supports, and need for the children to be able to direct supports as "chief partners" in the inclusion process.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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‘I want support, not comments’: children's perspectives on supports in their life

Mortier

Desimpel

Schauwer

et al. 2011

Disability & Society

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“…This argument constructs conceptual and theoretical space to explore experiences, impairment and the role of discourse in constructing disability through social processes (Meekosha 2004). As Armer (2004) suggests, disability theory is developed incrementally, drawing upon different critical approaches (Danieli and Woodhams 2005) or differing paradigmatic perspectives to illuminate different aspects of disabled people's experiences (Simmons et al 2008). This enables researchers to build new insights and understanding reflexively (Alvesson et al 2008) and appreciates that social model informed research, which was central to conceptualizing disability beyond an individualized discourse, continues to make a contribution, albeit one that is focused upon a particular range of interests.…”

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“…Personal e-mail communication, 16 April 2009;Goodley 2009) has begun to contribute to this agenda. It has done this by shifting focus solely from disability as deficit (individual interpretation) or disablism (social model) to, for example, social interaction (Simmons et al 2008) and ableism (Campbell 2009a,b). This is usually referred to as critical disability studies, to reflect the shift in theoretical interests (Goodley, D. Critical disability studies.…”

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Section: Disability Impairment and Ableism From Disability Studiesmentioning

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Disability as Constructed Difference: A Literature Review and Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies

Williams

Mavin

2012

Int J Management Reviews

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Disability theory and disabled people's voices have remained marginal in attempts to include a wider range of theoretical perspectives and voices in organization studies. This includes studies of the normative assumptions underpinning socially constructed categories of difference. This paper addresses this gap by reviewing the literature on social categories of difference, intersectional studies and studies across human resource management and diversity literatures. The argument here is that, while research has begun to move from an individualized discourse of disability, disability remains inadequately theorized as a constructed difference. The paper reviews the disability studies literature to identify the relevance of conceptualizing disability for work organizations, problematizes the concepts of disability and impairment and differentiates competing discourses of disability. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, it offers an alternative social interpretation discourse which argues that disability is constructed as a negated difference through assumed ableism, which is a normative expectation of non‐disability. Second, it presents impairment effects as legitimate organizing requirements rather than individualized problems. The paper argues impairment effects, the effects of bodily and cognitive variation, have legitimate implications for how disabled people negotiate organizing contexts. Third, it develops a disability studies lens to advance theoretical approaches to the study of social categories of difference in the field of management and organization studies.

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“…Both Papers pinpoint that to be regarded as rehabilitation, the services must be offered in planned and coherent courses adapted to patients' changing needs. Thus, the process of rehabilitation, by reactive means, is directed toward people with impairment to help them reach and maintain their optimal functioning levels in order to eliminate their impairment or help them return to 'societal normativity' (Simmons, Blackmore, and Bayliss 2008;Mji et al 2013, 5).…”

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Norwegian rehabilitation policies and the coordination reform’s effect: a critical discourse analysis

Røberg

Feiring

Romsland

2016

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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This article applies a critical discourse analysis of two Norwegian White Papers published within a period of 10 years, and that focused on rehabilitation policies. Concerning the way medical and socio-political conceptual models are embedded in the texts, the analysis has revealed three orders of rehabilitation discourse: The discourse of reaction, the discourse of action, and the discourse of pro-action. The analysis outlines the repositioning of rehabilitation to adhere to socio-political approaches; however, it also questions whether this social turn has some unintended consequences.

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Postmodern synergistic knowledge creation: extending the boundaries of disability studies

Cited by 21 publications

References 12 publications

‘I want support, not comments’: children's perspectives on supports in their life

‘I want support, not comments’: children's perspectives on supports in their life

Disability as Constructed Difference: A Literature Review and Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies

Norwegian rehabilitation policies and the coordination reform’s effect: a critical discourse analysis

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