From disability to ability: changing the phrasing of the debate

Enabling the classroom and the curriculum: higher education, literary studies and disability

“…Nevertheless, Anglophone terms have emerged in the form of ableism and disablism. The one is more widely used around the world, while the other is favoured in the United Kingdom (Ashby, 2010), which suggests the terms have emerged because of the distinction between person-first and British social model language (Harpur, 2012). That is to say, ableism designates the ideology against which a focus on personhood rather than disability is asserted, while disablism resonates with the contention that people with biological impairments become disabled because of social barriers.…”

“…There is no uniformly accepted term for discrimination against people who identify or are labelled as disabled (Harpur, 2012), a form of prejudice consequently referred to as the nameless apartheid (Goggin and Newell, 2003). Nevertheless, Anglophone terms have emerged in the form of ableism and disablism.…”

Not forgetting happiness: the tripartite model of disability and its application in literary criticism

“…Ableism is more widely used around the world, while disablism is favoured in the United Kingdom (Ashby, 2010), which suggests that the two terms have emerged because of the distinction between person-first and social model language (Harpur, 2012). In essence, both terms denote the same thing (Harpur, 2012), discriminatory or abusive conduct toward people based on physical or cognitive abilities (Harpur, 2009). Here, however, I follow work that has sought to appreciate the respective merits of the terms (Campbell, 2008(Campbell, , 2009Harpur, 2012;Bolt, 2014a;Goodley, 2014).…”

“…There is no uniformly accepted term for discrimination against those of us who identify as disabled (Harpur, 2012), a form of prejudice sometimes referred to as the nameless apartheid (Goggin and Newell, 2003).…”

“…In essence, both terms denote the same thing (Harpur, 2012), discriminatory or abusive conduct toward people based on physical or cognitive abilities (Harpur, 2009). Here, however, I follow work that has sought to appreciate the respective merits of the terms (Campbell, 2008(Campbell, , 2009Harpur, 2012;Bolt, 2014a;Goodley, 2014). From such a perspective, ableism and disablism render radically different understandings of disability: the former is associated with the idea of ableness, the perfect or perfectible body, and the latter relates to the production of disability, in accordance with a social constructionist understanding (Campbell, 2008).…”