Presage of a paradigm shift? Beyond the social model of disability toward resistance theories of disability

Gabel, Susan L.; Peters, Susan

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“…The article is therefore both a celebration of the success and potency of the resistance practices of the DPM and an analysis of these practices that we hope will be of use to activists, allowing them to reflect upon their successes, consider the challenges ahead and identify strategies for over-coming these. We acknowledge that there are certain affinities between our objectives and those of Peters (2004 andwith Symenonideu 2009). We suggest that whilst we employ a different array of concepts as part of our analysis, our article might usefully be read alongside theirs.…”

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The social model of disability as an oppositional device

Beckett

Campbell

2015

Disability & Society

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This article engages with debates about the UK Disabled People s Movement s Big )dea the social model of disability -positioning this as an oppositional device This concept is adapted from the work of the art activist and theorist Brian Holmes, elaborated using insights from Foucault and others The model s primary operation is introducing contingency into the present facilitating disabled people s resistance-practices. We recognise, however, that the device can operate in a disciplinary manner when adopted by a machinery of government. Whilst our primary goal is to understand the character and operation of the social model, by providing a more general definition of an oppositional device as the concrete operation of technologies of power, we also propose a concept potentially useful for the analysis of the resistance-practices of activists involved in a wide variety of struggles. This concept may thus have implications for wider social and political analysis. Keywordssocial model of disability; oppositional device; technology; resistance; social movements; biopower.The social model of disability as oppositional device. Points of Interest This article is a fresh intervention into debates about the Big )dea of the UK Disabled People s Movement the social model of disability. It considers the social model of disability as an oppositional device  The concept of an oppositional device is adapted from the work of the art activist and theorist Brian (olmes elaborated using Michel Foucault s concepts of technology, resistance and bio-power. Whilst others have argued that the social model should be understood as a tool we argue that the concept of an oppositional device has greater relevance for sociological analysis when seeking to understand the operations of the model.

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The social model of disability as an oppositional device

Beckett

Campbell

2015

Disability & Society

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“…In 1988 and 1992, numbers were generally limited to media spokespeople attached to NPCs, who relayed messages to local media in the country of origin. After 1992, interest increased markedly to 1600 at the Atlanta Games of 1996, 2400 at the Sydney Games of 2000 and 3100 at the Athens Games of 2004(Gilbert & Shantz, 2008. Journalists, in particular sports journalists, were beginning to focus on the potential of the Paralympic Games to produce dramatic human interest stories.…”

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Reframing Impairment? Continuity and Change in Media Representations of Disability Through the Paralympic Games

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Scott

2016

International Journal of Sport Communication

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“…The CRPD is a good example of the revolution which has overwhelmed traditional concepts of disability, with the emergence of the so-called 'social model' of disability. The social model, the exact contours of which are contested (Gabel & Peters, 2004), involves a rejection of both the 'medical model' which locates disability as an inherent, problematic quality of the individual; and the 'social welfare model', which sees social policy in terms of charity and philanthropy towards people with 'special needs'. Instead, it is a model grounded in equality, rights, and their infringement (Kanter, 2015).…”

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A Clash of Conventions? Participation, Power and the Rights of Disabled Children

Sandland

2017

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This article considers the neglected topic of the relationship between the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with regard to the participation rights of disabled children. It analyses key articles in both conventions and considers relevant general comments from both convention committees (the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), and their interpretation by academic contributors. The article argues that much work on this topic fails to develop an adequate understanding of power relations, and that the 'social model of disability' which underpins the disabilities convention, when applied to 'childhood' (as opposed to 'children') suggests that the implications of that convention for the participation rights of all children, not only disabled children, are profound. This is because the disabilities convention rejects the relevance of tests of capacity and 'best interests' for disabled adults, for reasons which are equally germane to disabled children, and children in general. The article concludes with discussion of the difficulties in implementing the insights derived from the analysis of the disabilities convention in substantive law in the absence of a right to freedom from age discrimination for children, and suggests other, less far-reaching, reforms that could be made this notwithstanding.

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Presage of a paradigm shift? Beyond the social model of disability toward resistance theories of disability

Cited by 144 publications

References 2 publications

The social model of disability as an oppositional device

The social model of disability as an oppositional device

Reframing Impairment? Continuity and Change in Media Representations of Disability Through the Paralympic Games

A Clash of Conventions? Participation, Power and the Rights of Disabled Children

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