From stigma to identity politics: Political activism among the physically disabled and former mental patients

Anspach, Renée R.

doi:10.1016/0271-7123(79)90123-8

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“…Such historical knowledge can also serve as a cautionary tale in regards to claims of major shifts in societal beliefs and practices -whether actual or aspirational -from the asylum to independent living (Boyce et al 2001); from charity to parity (McCreath 2011); from stigma to identity politics (Anspach 1979); or from paternalism to rights (Valentine and Vickers 1996). The material and discursive particulars of any such claims of social progress must be carefully and concretely probed…”

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Reconsidering Knowledge and Power: Reflections on Disability Communities and Disability Studies in Canada

Prince

2016

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Reflecting on knowledge production offers imaginative ways to think about disability organizations and Disability Studies. Following Foucault, the concepts of knowledge and power are central to this discussion and in addressing these questions: what kinds of knowledge circulate in and around disability communities in Canada? How does this knowledge connect disability organizations and movements with the Canadian state and other institutions in society? What might the future hold for more creative and innovative knowledge production for disability studies, disability activism and social change? The article maintains that the politics of knowledge production are not so much about generating evidence in contrast to ignorance, as about multiple forms of knowledge interacting with, and struggling against each other within particular fields of power relationships. The marginal status of lived experience by people with disabilities is the outcome of a politics of reality, of who gets to decide what counts as evidence and who gets to decide the rules around knowledge production and dissemination.

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Reconsidering Knowledge and Power: Reflections on Disability Communities and Disability Studies in Canada

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2016

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“…La lutte contre la stigmatisation dont les malades sont victimes occupe ici une place centrale, sous la forme d'une revendication du droit à faire valoir leur expertise et leur participation aux politiques publiques les concernant. Ces collectifs marquent la fin de l'idéologie de l'assimilation et de la réhabilitation des groupes stigmatisés [6]. Dans la littérature anglo-saxonne, différents auteurs se sont efforcés de catégoriser les associations de malades soit selon leurs objectifs, en distinguant alors le modèle de l'association philanthropique de celui des maladies chroniques ou de l'association plus politique, soit selon leurs rapports aux professionnels, distinguant l'association-auxiliaire, l'association-partenaire et l'association-opposante [7].…”

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Les collectifs d’usagers dans les champs du sida et de la toxicomanie

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2004

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“…Like other social groups and disability movements in other countries, the Canadian community emphasizes post-materialist values of cultural meaning. Anspach (1979) describes this activism among disabled people as a shift from stigma to identity politics. Anspach uses the term "identity politics" in reference to altering self-and societal-conceptions of people with disabilities from passive, deviant, and powerless to positive, self created conceptions for themselves.…”

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Canadian Disability Activism and Political Ideas: In and Between Neo-Liberalism and Social Liberalism

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2012

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The Canadian disability movement expresses a style of activism distinguished by values and beliefs which are a form of social liberalism. Disability activism, however, is taking place within a contemporary setting in which a set of ideas and interests often called neoliberalism prevail in political discourse and policy making. This article considers the role of neo-liberalism and its interplay with social liberalism in relation to the full citizenship goals of the Canadian disability movement. Political activism, among other things, is a discursive production; an expression of ideas and information as well as a performance of power. Disability activism, in the Canadian context, is a form of social liberalism that emphasizes individual self-development and also community and the rights of numerous politically salient social groups. In many respects, social liberalism is a counter-discourse to the dominant discourse of neo-liberalism; in other ways, they are mutually reinforcing systems of ideas; and, at all times, they connect together in a larger historical and institutional context of particular societies.

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From stigma to identity politics: Political activism among the physically disabled and former mental patients

Cited by 125 publications

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Reconsidering Knowledge and Power: Reflections on Disability Communities and Disability Studies in Canada

Reconsidering Knowledge and Power: Reflections on Disability Communities and Disability Studies in Canada

Les collectifs d’usagers dans les champs du sida et de la toxicomanie

Canadian Disability Activism and Political Ideas: In and Between Neo-Liberalism and Social Liberalism

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