Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world
My aim in this paper is to engage with definitions of disability and resilience. Despite the changing social position of people with disabilities in the community, notions of resilience are often invoked to describe the experience of people with disability and attributes of successful (often conside...
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| description | My aim in this paper is to engage with definitions of disability and resilience. Despite the changing social position of people with disabilities in the community, notions of resilience are often invoked to describe the experience of people with disability and attributes of successful (often considered ‘inspiring’) people with disability. Drawing on Runswick-Cole and Goodley’s argument that individualising qualities of resilience in inspirational people with disabilities has not benefitted people with disabilities, this paper reveals the importance of resilience as a response to social oppression. People with disabilities in their formation of a disability cultural movement are reworking and redefining resilience as a response to oppression. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-365212019-03-08T10:37:59Z Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world Ellis, Katie oppression resilience social model inspiration disability disability culture illness narrative My aim in this paper is to engage with definitions of disability and resilience. Despite the changing social position of people with disabilities in the community, notions of resilience are often invoked to describe the experience of people with disability and attributes of successful (often considered ‘inspiring’) people with disability. Drawing on Runswick-Cole and Goodley’s argument that individualising qualities of resilience in inspirational people with disabilities has not benefitted people with disabilities, this paper reveals the importance of resilience as a response to social oppression. People with disabilities in their formation of a disability cultural movement are reworking and redefining resilience as a response to oppression. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36521 http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/707 Materials Research Society fulltext |
| spellingShingle | oppression resilience social model inspiration disability disability culture illness narrative Ellis, Katie Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world |
| title | Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world |
| title_full | Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world |
| title_fullStr | Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world |
| title_full_unstemmed | Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world |
| title_short | Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world |
| title_sort | breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world |
| topic | oppression resilience social model inspiration disability disability culture illness narrative |
| url | http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/707 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36521 |