Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts

Humphry, Debbie; Clifford, E. H. M.; Greene, Andrew; Peters, Paula; Walker, Keith

doi:10.1080/13604813.2020.1739458

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“…The adoption of this model by the disabled people’s movement as an organizing principle has built a foundation for transforming the world in terms of opportunities for the participation of disabled people in ordinary life (Cameron, 2011). Many rights have been gained through social activism events in countries including the United States, Australia, and Britain, such as the Disability March, Disabled People Against Cuts, the Broken of Britain, the Campaign for a Fair Society, We Are Spartacus and the Hardest Hit (Humphry et al, 2020; Mann, 2018).…”

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Deconstructing social exclusions: The practice of digital activities among disabled people in China

Liu

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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This study focuses on the experiences of disabled individuals in online activism in the context of China. Adopting the social model of disability, this study found an iceberg structure consisting of two levels and three layers. The explicit level included observed labels, attitudes and legislation. The implicit level involved both social and internalized stereotypes. These three layers of social structures interacted with each other and together brought about social exclusion into being. Adopting the social model as an organizing principle represents a starting point to alter social patterns and possibly change social isolation.

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Deconstructing social exclusions: The practice of digital activities among disabled people in China

Liu

2022

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“…Many are classed as "clinically extremely vulnerable" and urged to only leave home with extreme caution and strict social distancing (Public Health England 2020). What does this mean for DPAC whose direct actions focused on occupying city streets and asserting their demands in embodied collective ways (Humphry et al 2020…”

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Campaigning in the time of coronavirus

Humphry

2020

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ast week, in the midst of lockdown, I attended a DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) online event for Ellen Clifford' s book launch and rally (DPAC 2020a). Ellen' s book, The War on Disabled People (2020), recounts DPAC' s struggles against the past decade of austerity in the UK, situated in the historical context of exclusionary capitalism, whilst providing a contemporary activists' guide for a more socially-just alternative. Ellen said the hardest thing about writing her (brilliant) book was not the writing or the research, but the authorial demand that she put herself forward as an individual, not as a collective. The book launch, therefore, was a deliberate return to collaboration, consisting of a rapid and rousing succession of speakers, a solidarity event kick-started by a radical poem and accompanied by kick-ass live music. The event brought DPAC campaigners and supporters together, eliding space as participants connected from across the UK, Greece, the United States and Uganda. A solidarity event full of love, shared pain, remembrance and intention. This is just one example of campaigning in the time of coronavirus. Writing about a moving target is an unstable business, but we can begin to think about what new connections, concepts, practices and potentials are emerging from the technologies of lockdown and the modalities of crisis. The calm and the storms of these Covid-19 times are generating new forms of struggle, a hybrid urbanism (Leontidou 2015, 2020) combining online and on-the-streets campaigning, generating a productive dialectic. I speak from my position in London, the UK, but try to make sense of what I have heard and observed through my own campaign networks of resistance in the broader international context. It may seem ironic that while we are being contained in so many spatial, social and economic ways during the coronavirus pandemic, resistance is being URL

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‘I’ve always felt these spaces were ours’: disability activism and austerity capitalism

Humphry

2023

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Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Deconstructing social exclusions: The practice of digital activities among disabled people in China

Deconstructing social exclusions: The practice of digital activities among disabled people in China

Campaigning in the time of coronavirus

‘I’ve always felt these spaces were ours’: disability activism and austerity capitalism

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