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(2017) The Palgrave handbook of critical social psychology, New York, Palgrave Macmillan.
Critical disability studies
Dan Goodley , Rebecca Lawthom , Kirsty Liddiard , Katherine Runswick Cole
pp. 491-505
This is a chapter concerned with disability politics, interested in the possible offerings of critical psychology and engaged with a project questioning what it means to be a human being. When disability is defined as a problem and when that problem is located in an individual's body or mind, then there is only really one way we can go with disability and that is pathologisation. We know from our critical psychology colleagues—many of who are represented in this volume of work—that a discipline that individualises human diversity as human trouble will only ever exist as an antithetical community to that of disability activism. The latter, a community in which we locate ourselves, seeks not only to challenge pathologising accounts of disability but also to open up a discussion about the possibilities for human capital offered by disability.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-51018-1_24
Full citation:
Goodley, D. , Lawthom, R. , Liddiard, K. , Runswick Cole, K. (2017)., Critical disability studies, in B. Gough (ed.), The Palgrave handbook of critical social psychology, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 491-505.
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