Disability, Culture and Identity

223 Pages·2003·3.005 MB·English

by  Sheila Riddell, Nick Watson

Disability, Culture and Identity
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Disability, Culture
and Identity
Sheila Riddell
Nick Watson
First published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited
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Contents
List of contributors x
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiii
CHAPTER ONE
Disability, Culture and Identity: Introduction 1
Sheila Riddell and Nick Watson
Introduction 1
The social model of disability and culture 2
What is culture? 5
Culture and disability 6
Disability and identity 9
Structure and content of the book 11
Conclusion 15
References 16
CHAPTER TWO
A culture of participation? 19
E. Kay M. Tisdall
‘Dependent children’ 21
‘Troubled adolescents’ 23
‘Needy disabled people’ 24
Defined as ‘the other’? 25
Is it possible to have a culture of participation? 29
References 30
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CHAPTER THREE
Daily denials: The routinisation of oppression and
resistance 34
Nick Watson
Introduction 34
The importance of interaction: reclaiming social interaction 35
Prejudice 38
The daily experience of oppression 39
Oppression as patronage and the denial of agency 41
Oppression as the product of charity 44
Becoming the centre of attention 45
Engaging with non-disabled people 47
Oppression as ignorance 48
Conclusion 49
References 51
CHAPTER FOUR
‘It’s like your hair going grey’, or is it?: impairment,
disability and the habitus of old age 53
Mark Priestley
Introduction 53
Thinking about disability and old age 53
Talking about older disabled people 56
Preoccupation with the body and physical function 57
Biography and identity 61
Older disabled people, same or different? 63
References 64
CHAPTER FIVE
Challenging a ‘spoiled identity’: mental health
service users, recognition and redistribution 67
Iain Ferguson
Introduction 67
Challenging a ‘spoiled identity’ 68
Patient 69
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Customer 71
User 71
Survivor 72
Client 74
Member 74
Person with the diagnosis 75
Madperson 75
No suitable term 76
Towards a mental health identity? 76
A positive identity? 77
A permanent identity? 78
Social construct or immanent condition? 79
A shared identity? 79
Rethinking identity? 80
Conclusion: the limits of difference 84
References 86
CHAPTER SIX
Deafness/Disability – problematising notions of
identity, culture and structure 88
Mairian Scott-Hill
Introduction 88
Deaf studies: the structural penetration of culture 89
Disability studies: the cultural penetration of structure 94
Conclusion 99
References 101
CHAPTER SEVEN
Against a politics of victimisation: disability culture
and self-advocates with learning difficulties 105
Danny Goodley
Introduction 105
Disabling and disability cultures 106
Researching self-advocacy 108
Embracing cultures and resilient identities 109
Resilience in the family 111
Identity formation and institutionalisation 114
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Disabled identities and self-advocacy culture 119
Self-advocacy and the disability movement 122
Conclusion 126
References 128
CHAPTER EIGHT
Now I Know Why Disability Art is Drowning in the
River Lethe (with thanks to Pierre Bourdieu) 131
Paul Anthony Darke
Introduction 131
The development of Disability Art in the UK 131
Commercial sponsorship of art and Disability Art 134
State sponsorship of Disability Art 134
The domestication of Disability Art and Disability Artists 138
Conclusion 141
References 141
CHAPTER NINE
Mainstreaming disability on Radio 4 143
Brian Sweeney and Sheila Riddell
Introduction 143
Media, power and disability 145
Inclusion, exclusion and mainstreaming 146
Rights, citizenship and consumerism 147
Production issues 148
Content 155
Conclusion 158
References 159
CHAPTER TEN
Disability and ethnicity: how young Asian disabled
people make sense of their lives 161
Karl Atkin and Yasmin Hussain
Introduction 161
Disability and ethnicity 161
CONTENTS ix
The study 162
Negotiating identities 164
The meaning of disability for parents 165
Young people and the family 166
The social meaning of disability 168
Ethnic, cultural and religious identification 169
Religious and cultural identification 171
Discussion 176
References 177
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Can multiculturalism encompass disability? 180
Andrew Jakubowicz and Helen Meekosha
Introduction 180
Critical multiculturalism and the problem of the able body 182
Australia – a diverse settler society in crisis 185
Culture – the dimension of social meanings 186
Disability as a cultural movement 188
Crossover – disability, multiculturalism and reconciliation 191
Population and the popular: disability engages with multiculturalism 193
Conclusion 197
References 197
Index 200