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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Disability oppression"”.
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The disability press: A wheel still in spin
This study, exploring the messages of the disability press, also utilizes Marxist theory to explain empowerment in the disability community. Although Marxism has significant value for explaining disability oppression, Marx's theory of internal relations, describing an interconnected web of …
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Laughing Back: A Phenomenological Study of Disability Humor Using Culturally Responsive Methodologies
… not been viewed as innovators of humor because disability is associated with tragedy. My dissertation challenged the association of disability with tragedy by positioning disabled comedians as educators and ambassadors of disability rights. I reviewed the literature on disability and humor as …
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Disability as an entanglement: A new materialist reimagination of disability
… humanity, despite decades of hard work from the disability rights movement, support workers, and families and whānau, among many others (Goodley, 2017). In this thesis, I seek to find some answers as to why this situation persists. I seek further to investigate if this ongoing marginalisation can …
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THE TENSIONS OF NORTHERN IMPORTS: DISABILITY AND INCLUSION IN KENYAN PRIMARY EDUCATION
… Northern concepts of inclusive education and disability rights are imported to countries in the global South. Specifically, through this project I examined the development of a sustainable inclusive education system in western Kenya through community-based participatory research (CBPR) and …
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Democratic Justice for Brazilians with Impairments
… are three key stakeholder groups: policymakers, disability nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and people with impairments. The analysis is organized as follows. First, I provide an overview of the study, its aims and significance and research questions. Second, I discuss the theoretical …
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Perceptions of Disability, Identity, Agency, Goal Attainment, and Young Adult Disability Programs
<p>Youth with disability are oppressed and marginalized by a dominant cultural narrative called ableism (Adams, Reiss, and Serlin, 2015; Campbell, 2015 as cited in Adams et al., 2015). Challenging ableism is a matter of social justice. Without serious attitudinal shifts and the removal of systemic …
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Separate but Equal? A Postmodern Analysis of Educational Structures for Individuals with Disabilities
… terms of class, gender, and race, the impact of disability as a social category has been absent from the field. In this work, postmodern analysis is applied to the concept of disability in field of education; first, in terms of the nature and effects of the practices educators employ to define …
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Cripping Justice: Enabling Theory on Disability
Disability activism and disability studies have, over the last half-century, evolved theories to understand disability and operationalise justice for disabled people. Historically, the starting point is the Medical Model, where disability is a bodily ‘defect’, and therefore the responsibility of …