This book offers new direction in disability studies, by integrating
the medical and social model of disability. The first aim is to
provide an integral approach to thinking about impairment and
disability through the integrative lens of being vulnerable. The
second aim is to transcend the normative trap which impairment and
disability debate finds itself locked in. Disability debate is trapped
in a normative struggle to escape oppressive norms. Either, by
legitimizing the desire to be free from impairment, where a
legitimization identity is promoted through the medical model. Or, by
resisting discriminative social norms, where the desire is to be free
from oppressive social barriers that exist on top of having
impairment. Identifying with one’s vulnerability, or embodied
uncertainty, allows for the possibility of forging meaning and
building new identity. It allows freedom to express embodied
difference, rather than to transform or defend it.
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New Directions in Disability Studies
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781137318992
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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