Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing Our FutureThis powerful book presents a series of perspectives on the process of self-organisation of disabled people which has taken place over the last thirty years. The 1980s saw a transformation in our understanding of the nature of disability, and consequently the kinds of policies and services necessary to ensure the full economic and social integration of disabled people. At the heart of this transformation has been the rise in the number of organisations controlled and run by disabled people themselves. Through a series of interviews with disabled people who have been centrally involved in the rise of the disability movement, the authors present a new collective history which throws light on the politics of the 1980s, and offers insights into future political developments in the 1990s and on into the twenty-first century. |
Contents
| 1 | |
1 Setting the scene
| 17 |
2 Politics policy and disability | 28 |
3 Disability organisations and the political process
| 46 |
4 The rise of the disability movement | 62 |
5 Organising disabled people | 81 |
6 Disability consciousness | 105 |
7 Making connections through rights and
empowerment
| 125 |
8 New visions or the existing order? | 142 |
is it a new
social movement?
| 167 |
10 Interviews with Jane Campbell and Mike Oliver by Bamber Postance
| 181 |
Glossary | 206 |
| 210 | |
| 213 | |
Other editions - View all
Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future Jane Campbell,Michael Oliver Limited preview - 1996 |
Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future Jane Campbell,Michael Oliver No preview available - 1996 |