The social model analysis of disability and the majority world
Keywords:
Disability, models, globalizationAbstract
There is a strong controversy of how disability should be understood and if the models suggested in the minority world can or should be used in other places. Is the social model as relevant to the disabled people in the majority world as it is to disabled people in the minority world? It is exactly part of this controversy that we will try to examine in this paper. This article will begin by defining key concepts relevant to the discussion and following that it will address issues and questions raised by critics of the social model and some answers to them. First, we will examine whether the dominance of the minority world has resulted in a “colonization” of ideas and practices on the majority world (including the social model approach). Secondly, reference will be made to the social model of disabil-ity, and whether it is or is not ignoring what impairment means for disabled peo-ple in the majority world. Thirdly, an analysis of whether it is relevant to apply the social model of disability in the majority world; is the issue of poverty forgot-ten? Is survival a first priority for disabled persons in some places? A brief analy-sis of the links between poverty, impairment and disability will be presented.References
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Lang, R (2011). “Community-based rehabilitation and health professional prac-tice: developmental opportunities and challenges in the global North and South.” Disability and Rehabilitation, 2011; 33(2): 165-173.
Meekosha, H. (2011): “Decolonizing disability: thinking and acting globally”. Disability & Society, 26(6): 667-682.
Miles, M. (1996) “Community, individual or informational development? Di-lemmas concept and culture in South Asian disability planning”. Disability & Society 11(4): 485-500
Miles, M. (2003) “CBR works best the way local people see it and build it”. Asia Pacific Disability Rehabilitation Journal 14(1): 86-98
Morris, J. (1991). Pride Against Prejudice, London: The Woman Press.
Oliver, M. (1990): The Politics of Disablement, Basingstoke: Macmillan
Oliver, M. (1996): “Defining Impairment and disability: issues at stake”, in Barnes, C. & Mercer, G (eds), Exploring the Divide: Illness and Disability, Leeds: The disability Press.
Populin, E. (2005): “Disability and Rehabilitation: reflections on working for the World Health Organization.” Barnes, C. and Mercer, G (eds) 2005: The So-cial Model of Disability: Europe and the Majority World. Leeds: The disabil-ity Press, pp 193-209.
Riger S. (1993): “What’s wrong with empowerment?”. American Journal of Community Psychology 1993; 21: 279-292.
Shakespeare, T. (2002): “The social model of disability: an outdated ideology?”. Research in Social Science and Disability. Vol 2:9-28
Sheldon, A. (2005): “One World, One People, One struggle? Towards the global implementation of the social model of disability.” Barnes, C. and Mercer, G. (eds): The Social Model of Disability: Europe and the Majority World, Leeds: The Disability Press, pp 115-130.
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Yeo, R. (2005): “Disability, Poverty and the ‘new’ development agenda.” A Re-port to the KaR Programme. (Available at: http://www.disability-archive.leeds.ac.uk/).
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