LAWS 3904 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ableism, Immigration Law, Prenatal Diagnosis

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 3904
• Professor: Collin Fletcher

Document Summary

North american societies viewed as bastions of liberty, equality, and inclusion; celebrate canadian charter of rights and freedoms. Not all share equally in the good life recurring coercion, marginalization, and social exclusion; esp. for persons w/ disabilities. Challenges to core assumptions of liberalism has a hard time dealing w/ disability. Liberalism incorporates embedded assumptions that conceptualize disability as misfortune, and privilege normalcy over the abnormal: structures for societal organization based on able-bodied norms are inevitable; productivity is essential to personhood. Language used in context of disability (cid:862)the disa(cid:271)led,(cid:863) (cid:862)pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)s (cid:449)ith disa(cid:271)ilities,(cid:863) (cid:862)disa(cid:271)led pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)s,(cid:863) (cid:862)people (cid:449)ith i(cid:373)pai(cid:396)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts,(cid:863) (cid:862)a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455) li(cid:373)itatio(cid:374)s,(cid:863) (cid:862)people (cid:449)ho li(cid:448)e (cid:449)ith i(cid:373)pai(cid:396)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:863: discomfort w/ what the english language seems to be able to offer. Titchkosky person-first language as an apolitical, individualized, and inappropriate means by which to (cid:862)dis(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) disa(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the self(cid:863) To be a person is to have the capacity to appear on the political radar screen.