GGRB13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ableism
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Focused on a narrow idea of function. Emphasizes the normal status of able bodied people. Disability is functional and linked to the body. Rather than looking at social and environmental factors. It is the problem of the person who is experiencing it. Says the distinction b/w normal" and disabled" is socially constructed. All people have a range of capacities and abilities which are vacillated or inhibited by their social and physical environments. Social and economic processes produce and reproduce spaces that disable people . There are strengths and limitations to different models. Economic/labour processes: the way work is organized excluded many disabled people. Social: exclusion from social processes due to inaccessibility of both transit and buildings as well as social attitudes. Political: disabled people are excluded from significant political voice. Violent processes: incarceration through institutionalization and other kinds of spatial and physical violence.
