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- Altermark, Niklas
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The ideology of neuroscience and intellectual disability: reconstituting the 'disordered' brain
- 2014
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 29:9, s. 1460-1472
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last two or three decades, neuroscience has changed how we understand brain functioning. This shift, which is re-conceptualizing the relationship between the materiality of the brain and consciousness, is bound to have implications for intellectual disability, which is commonly seen as a condition of the brain. At present, examinations of intellectual disability that deploy techniques and concepts from neuroscience constitute a growing research field that has been welcomed in some quarters of the disability research community. The purpose of this article is to urge for caution as regards this development. I argue that the neuroscience of intellectual disability is embodying ideological propositions that need to be problematized. By theorizing the relationship between biology and politics and examining neuroscientific publications on intellectual disability, I argue that this strand of research is underpinned by a discursive division between normal and pathological, that it therefore constitutes a continuation of understanding intellectual disability as a 'disorder' and that any firm separation between the 'nature' of intellectual disability and processes of power is inherently problematic. To be able to critically approach the neuroscience of intellectual disability, it is vital that disability researchers problematize the relationship between biology and politics.
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- Altermark, Niklas
(författare)
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The post-institutional era : visions of history in research on intellectual disability
- 2017
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Ingår i: Disability and Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 32:9, s. 1315-1332
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, I address how the history of intellectual disability politics is made sense of in social scientific research and popular discourse. In particular, I discuss the construction of a narrative break between a past of institutionalisation and the present policies of citizenship. By drawing on how postcolonial theorists criticise common ideas about decolonisation, I argue that this narrative impedes our appreciation of how power has transformed, rather than disappeared, after deinstitutionalisation. Instead, I propose ‘post-institutionalisation’ as a name for the present era of intellectual disability politics, suggesting that we need to attend to continuities and discontinuities of how the group is governed; how paternalism lives on after deinstitutionalisation and how the goals of citizenship inclusion give rise to new technologies of government. I conclude the article by discussing the necessity and the dangers of involving people with intellectual disabilities in the analysis of post-institutional government.
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- Anderberg, Peter, et al.
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Being there
- 2005
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 20:7, s. 719-733
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the use of the Internet as experienced by people with significant mobility/physicalimpairments who are accustomed to using computers. The study is based on interviews andfocuses on computer usage in everyday action and interaction. In many cases, the possibilities thatthe computer and Internet offer have meant not only important improvements in quality of life, butfirst-time occurrences of great personal significance. The analysis is phenomenographic, resultingin main categories and subcategories, illustrated primarily through direct quotations. The threemain categories are independence, communication, and learning.
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- Anderberg, Peter
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Peer assistance for personal assistance: Analysis of online discussions about personal assistance from a Swedish web forum for disabled people
- 2007
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 22:3, s. 251-265
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes and analyses a community of disabled people in Sweden that use an online forum to discuss personal assistance issues. The forum is a community of practice (CoP) that has its roots in everyday living with personal assistance. The contributions to the forum were studied over a 41/2 year period, including a total of 2755 postings from 146 persons. The levels of the CoP learning system were analysed using the FACE tool, which examines function based on attitude, control and enabling. The results indicate that a learning system was established within the CoP that made it possible for disabled people to complement, confront and counterbalance the influences of existing learning systems, theories and methods of professionals in the area of personal assistance.
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- Apelmo, Elisabet
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(Dis)Abled bodies, gender, and citizenship in the Swedish sports movement
- 2012
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 27:4, s. 563-574
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to examine how the Swedish Sports Organization for the Disabled (SHIF) portrays disabled people. A text analysis of two policy documents, 'Disability Sports Policy Programme' and 'Sports Objectives - A Summary of Aims and Guidelines for the Sports Movement', examines ways in which sports are supposed to affect people's bodies and contribute to society. Counter to its own aim to integrate disabled people, SHIF constructs such people as different and subordinated to able-bodied people, setting up an insurmountable boundary between the two groups.
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- Bahner, Julia
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Sexual professionalism: for whom? The case of sexual facilitation in Swedish personal assistance services
- 2015
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 30:5, s. 788-801
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sexuality is a taboo subject in disability services, leading to insecurity for both service users and personnel about how to handle upcoming situations. In Sweden, there is also a lack of policy in this area, highlighting the need to study sexuality both as an individual and a political, and in this case also, depoliticized issue. A critical feminist policy analysis reveals that norms around disability, sexuality and professionalism in a particular legal, political and cultural context strongly influence the willingness to recognize disabled people’s sexual rights. The Swedish case indicates a need for increased transnational work to develop ethical, professional and non-discriminatory rights-based approaches to sexual facilitation.
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- Barnes, Colin, et al.
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Disability, Politics and Poverty in a Majority World Context
- 2010
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 25:7, s. 771-782
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper argues that the spread of free market economics throughout the world has generated unprecedented inequalities within and between nation states. This has led to the systematic exclusion of people with perceived impairments from the mainstream of economic and community life in almost all societies, the generation of an international disabled people’s movement, and their demand for legal frameworks with which to address the multiple deprivations encountered by people viewed as ‘disabled’. It is argued that the poverty and exclusion encountered by disabled people and other oppressed groups in all societies will not be eliminated without fundamental structural change at the international level
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- Barron, Karin, 1949-
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RESEARCH AND IDEOLOGY
- 1994
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - Abingdon : Carfax Publishing. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 9:1, s. 93-95
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Barron, Karin, 1949-
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The bumpy road to womanhood
- 1997
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Ingår i: Disability & Society. - Abingdon : Carfax Publishing. - 0968-7599 .- 1360-0508. ; 12:2, s. 223-239
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper is based on a qualitative study dealing with societal constraints with regard to womanhood for physically disabled young women in Sweden. The findings show that the young women are subjected to stereotyped views on what having an impairment inv
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