Invisible to Themselves or Negotiating Identity? The Interactional Management of 'Being Intellectually Disabled'

Rapley, Mark; Kiernan, Patrick; Antaki, Charles

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“…Included in socialisation processes are expectations and beliefs about who we are, and who we should be (Kristiansen, 2000). Social identities can be understood as achieved social statuses or entitlement to which requires negotiation and maintenance (see Rapley et al, 1998). This is a different way of understanding identity than as immutable properties of persons.…”

Section: The Social Construction Of Identitymentioning

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Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self‐identity

Barron

2002

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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Section: The Social Construction Of Identitymentioning

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Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self‐identity

Barron

2002

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…Antaki, 1999) and the manner in which they manage their identities in interviews (e.g. Rapley, Kiernan and Antaki, 1998).…”

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Conversational Shaping: Staff Members' Solicitation of Talk From People With an Intellectual Impairment

2007

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In initiating and maintaining talk with people with intellectual impairments, members of care staff use a range of recurrent conversational devices. We list six of the more common of these devices, explain how they work interactionally, and speculate on how they serve institutional interests. As in other dealings between staff members and the people with intellectual impairments they support, there is a pervasive dilemma between, on the one hand, encouraging participation and , on the other, getting institutional jobs done. We show how the practices of encouraging talk that we describe move between the two horns of that dilemma.

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“…Furthermore, Craig et al (2002) describe how individuals struggle to come to terms with an identity of intellectual disability. However, a negatively ascribed identity is not something that people should strive to accept or confess about (Rapley, Kiernan, and Antaki 1998). People are aware of how they are labelled, not least as a result of other people's prejudice and attitudes towards them.…”

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Self-presentations and intellectual disability

Kittelsaa

2013

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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The aim of this article is to demonstrate how some young individuals who are labelled as having intellectual disabilities present themselves and how they understand and relate to the fact that they are included in the category of intellectual disability. The article draws on findings from a study based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews with seven young adults about their self-understanding and daily life experiences. During the data gathering period, which lasted for two years, the participants were followed in their daily activities, at home, at work, and in their leisure time. The study shows that the participants were well aware of their impairments. However, they resisted the notion that intellectual disability should be central to defining who they are.

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Invisible to Themselves or Negotiating Identity? The Interactional Management of 'Being Intellectually Disabled'

Cited by 86 publications

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Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self‐identity

Who am I? Women with learning difficulties (re)constructing their self‐identity

Conversational Shaping: Staff Members' Solicitation of Talk From People With an Intellectual Impairment

Self-presentations and intellectual disability

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