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Miles To Go: Some Personal Reflections On Social Construction Of Disability, Dianne Pothier
Miles To Go: Some Personal Reflections On Social Construction Of Disability, Dianne Pothier
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The "social construction" of disability refers to the way an able bodied conception of disability magnifies its consequences. The social construction of disability assesses and deals with disability from an able bodied perspective. It includes erroneous assumptions about capacity to perform that come from an able bodied frame of reference. It encompasses the failure to make possible or accept different ways of doing things. It reflects a preoccupation with "normalcy" that excludes the disabled person.
Book Review Of Dangerous Supplements: Resistance And Renewal In Jurisprudence, Richard F. Devlin Frsc
Book Review Of Dangerous Supplements: Resistance And Renewal In Jurisprudence, Richard F. Devlin Frsc
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Dangerous Supplements: Resistance and Renewal in Jurisprudence (1991 ), edited by Peter Fitzpatrick, is the first instalment in a new series, Law and Social Theory, being published by the progressive British publisher Pluto Press. As someone who had been subjected to an intensely positivistic- perhaps even authoritarian- jurisprudential, undergraduate education in Belfast, both the title and the dustcover intrigued me. The latter portrays a towering, seemingly unassailable, citadel with "jurisprudence" inscribed upon it, being bombarded by paper planes with the insignia of critical theory, semiotics, feminism, postmodernism and "new ideas." This image led me to wonder whether the book would …