Understanding disabling barriers: a fruitful partnership between Disability Studies and social practices?. Issue 2 (7th February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Williams, Val; Tarleton, Beth; Heslop, Pauline; Porter, Sue; Sass, Bernd; Blue, Stanley; Merchant, Wendy; Mason-Angelow, Victoria
• Is Part Of: Disability & society. Volume 33:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 157
• Page End: 174
• Publication Date: 2018-02-07
• Subjects: Social practice theory -- disability theories -- disabling barriers -- change -- co-production -- disabled students -- personal assistants; People with disabilities -- Periodicals; People with disabilities -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Special education -- Periodicals; Rehabilitation -- Periodicals; 362.4
• DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2017.1401527
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0968-7599

Abstract

Abstract: Disabled people are regularly denied their human rights, since policies and laws are hard to translate literally into practice. This article aims to make connections between social practice theories and Disability Studies, in order to understand the problems faced by disabled people, using different methods to look in detail at how practices are shaped and how disabled people get excluded. Disabled people are active agents in making change, both informally on an everyday basis and through formal actions. Thus we also suggest that the insights of disabled people could bring a fresh perspective to social practice theories, by troubling the taken-for-granted in our everyday lives.