Pendant la majeure partie du XXe siècle, les personnes handicapées ont été considérées comme des « victimes » de leur état et un « fardeau » pour la société. Plus récemment, cependant, les personnes handicapées et leurs organisations en Europe et en Amérique du Nord ont contesté les explications conventionnelles de leur désavantage individuel et collectif, appelant à des mesures politiques pour changer l'image et le statut des personnes handicapées dans le monde occidental.
Dans ce nouveau livre, Barnes et Mercer fournissent une introduction concise et accessible au concept de handicap. S'appuyant sur une littérature en plein essor sur les « études sur le handicap » du monde entier, et d'un éventail de perspectives disciplinaires, les auteurs explorent l'évolution de ce concept et offrent une large critique des orthodoxies académiques, politiques et professionnelles établies. Le livre met en évidence l'exclusion et la marginalisation des personnes handicapées dans des domaines clés de l'activité sociale et de la participation dans différents contextes historiques et culturels, tels que la vie familiale et la reproduction, l'éducation, l'emploi, les loisirs, l'imagerie culturelle et la politique.
L'analyse se concentre sur le handicap en tant que forme distinctive d'oppression sociale similaire à celle vécue par les femmes, les groupes ethniques et « raciaux » minoritaires, les lesbiennes et les hommes gais. Les principaux problèmes abordés comprennent : la théorisation du handicap, les perspectives historiques et comparatives, la déficience et le handicap, l'intervention professionnelle et politique dans la vie des personnes handicapées, la politique, la politique sociale et la citoyenneté des personnes handicapées, et la culture du handicap.
Ce sera une lecture essentielle pour ceux qui étudient la sociologie, la politique sociale, le travail social, les études de santé, les études sur le handicap et ceux qui travaillent dans les professions thérapeutiques et infirmières.
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For most of the twentieth century, people with disabilities have been regarded as victims of their condition and a burden on society. More recently, however, disabled people and their organizations across Europe and North America have challenged conventional explanations for their individual and collective disadvantage, calling for policy measures to change the image and status of disabled people in the Western world.
In this new book, Barnes and Mercer provide a concise and accessible introduction to the concept of disability. Drawing on a burgeoning disability studies literature from around the world, and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the authors explore the evolution of this concept and offer a wide–ranging critique of established academic, policy and professional orthodoxies. The book highlights disabled peoples exclusion and marginalization in key areas of social activity and participation across different historical and cultural contexts, such as family life and reproduction, education, employment, leisure, cultural imagery and politics.
The analysis concentrates on disability as a distinctive form of social oppression similar to that experienced by women, minority ethnic and racial groups, and lesbians and gay men. Key issues addressed include: theorizing disability; historical and comparative perspectives; experiencing impairment and disability; professional and policy intervention in the lives of disabled people; disability politics, social policy and citizenship; and disability culture.
This will be essential reading for those studying sociology, social policy, social work, health studies, disability studies, and those in the therapy and nursing professions.
"In Disability, Barnes and Mercer raise the bar for any future discussions of the social model of disability. Their well–grounded work uses the social model to analyse the classic questions of the definition, production, representation, experience, stratification, exclusion, politics and globalization of disability. This timely book is a must read for students, scholars and activists."
Gary L. Albrecht, University of Illinois at Chicago
"This book is essential reading for all disability studies scholars. It is historically well–grounded and theoretically rigorous, carefully exploring theories of disability, impairment and the body. The nature of the social oppression experienced by disabled people is analysed, and disability is located in relation to gender, ′race′ and social class. Like all good sociology, the book is highly accessible and an excellent read."
Sheila Riddell, University of Glasgow
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