The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul K. Longmore ◽  
Bruce Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Disabled People ◽  
Randolph Bourne ◽  
History Of

History of the Paralympic movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-79
Author(s):  
Natalia Sakhno
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Life ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Body ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Active Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation

Worldwide, December 3 is the international day of persons with disabilities. As early as 1982, a 10-year programme of action for persons with disabilities was adopted, called the Decade of persons with disabilities, and at its end in 1992, the General Assembly declared December 3 as the International day of people with disabilities. The goal of this day was to promote the rights of persons with disabilities in all spheres of public life, as well as to attract the attention of the General public to the problems of disabled people. Every year there are more and more people with disabilities, so only in the Russian Federation the total number of disabled people is 9% of the population. Someone comes to terms with their fate and closes in the walls of their home, and someone continues to lead an active life, not wanting to change something in the usual way in connection with their new status. Such strong-minded people learn new professions, acquire previously unknown skills, and try to expand their horizons in various ways available to them. And some unique individuals in the desire to prove to others, and first of all to themselves, that disability is not a sentence, even take part in sports competitions organized specifically for people with disabilities. And if for any famous athlete participation in the Olympics, and even more so victory in it, is a matter of prestige and world recognition, for a disabled person participation in the Paralympic games primarily means victory of the spirit over the body, victory over their own helplessness and infirmity, recognition of the fact of beauty and fullness of life.

scholarly journals „Możesz kląć, możesz płakać, ale wstań i idź dalej”… Ośrodki rehabilitacyjne dla osób niepełnosprawnych po polio w Polsce po II wojnie światowej jako przestrzeń życia codziennego

2018 ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Marcin Stasiak
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Source Material ◽  
World War ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rehabilitation Facilities ◽  
Author Keywords

„You can curse, you can cry, but get up and go on...”Rehabilitation centres for people with disabilities resulting from polio in Poland after World War II as an everyday life space The article focuses on selected issues of everyday life of disabled people with polio-related impairments who were treated and rehabilitated in closed rehabilitation facilities. A network of such institutions was established in Poland as a response to polio epidemics outbreak in the early 1950s. The article analyzes the period between the early 1950s and late 1960s. The text highlights the specificity of daily life at these facilities. In particular, I consider interpersonal relations among members of these various communities. In terms of source material, the study is based primarily on autobiographical oral histories collected and recorded by the author. Keywords: history of disability, Poland, rehabilitation, healthcare facilities, 1945–1989

scholarly journals The Notion of Disability and Related Research Terminology: Discussion Points

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Stroganov
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Related Research ◽  
History Of

The history of civilization is also the history of incapacitation and the use of new artificial appliances and practices gradually introduced at every stage of humanity’s development in order to help people survive regardless of the laws of natural selection. This article considers the terminology related to the sphere of disability and bodily deviation through a historical perspective while also focusing on forms of representation and their comprehension by society. The author demonstrates that the term “deviation” serves to classify people with disabilities and forms of their representation. People with a bodily deviation can be easily portrayed from the point of view of the visual, with artistic attention to them reaching its climax between the seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries. In such works, disabled people try to overcome the stigma and start being perceived like everyone else. Starting with the early nineteenth century, works of fiction refer to deviant sense organs. Only in the twentieth century did writers start focusing on deviant psyches and minds, which were previously associated with deviations in social behaviour. The author maintains that the terminology of disability relies on the existing universal bodily norm describing it and its deviations. A person with a bodily deviation is perceived as a disabled one when they are perceived as ‘the other’. When compared with a ‘healthy’ person, a deviant is taken as a disabled one; when considered separately, a deviant is a person with alternative possibilities. From this perspective, disability is part of a paradigm of otherness (age, gender, and nationality).

Wellness Decolonized: The History of Wellness and Recommendations for the Counseling Field

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-245
Author(s):  
Katie Gamby ◽  
Dominique Burns ◽  
Kaitlyn Forristal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Health Counselors ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The West ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crucial Information ◽  
Counseling Literature

The word wellness became mainstream in the United States around 1980, and wellness counseling literature often cites the beginnings of wellness around this time. The problem with this identification is that the roots of what counselors understand the wellness movement to be stretch back to between 3,000 and 1,500 BCE in India. Since wellness counseling literature often is not contextualized appropriately, failing to address the historical roots of wellness concepts and practices earlier than the 1980s wellness movement in the West, counselors are often missing crucial information regarding wellness for themselves and their clients. The purpose of this article is to encourage social change by grounding the wellness counseling literature in this missing history. To do this, we explore wellness from its conception until the present day, discuss wellness practices for historically marginalized groups (i.e., Black, Indigenous People, queer, fat, and disabled people), and provide implications for mental health counselors.

The history of the Paralympic Movement creation

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Georgiy Rubenovich Petrosyan
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
The Body ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Action Program ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Active Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Federation

Worldwide, December 3 is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Back in 1982, a 10-year Action Program for Persons with Disabilities, called the «Decade of Disabled Persons», was adopted, and at its end in 1992, the General Assembly proclaimed December 3 the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The task of this day was to promote the rights of persons with disabilities in all spheres of public life, as well as to draw the attention of the general public to the problems of disabled people. Every year there are more and more people with disabilities, for instance, in the Russian Federation alone, the total number of disabled people is 9 % of the population. Some people resign themselves to their fate and close themselves within the walls of their home, while others continue to lead an active life, unwilling to change anything in their usual way in connection with their new status. Such strong-minded people master new professions, acquire previously unknown skills, and try to expand their horizons in various available ways. What is more, some unique personalities in a desire to prove to others, and first of all to themselves, that disability is not destiny even take part in sports competitions organized specifically for people with disabilities. While participation in the Olympics, and even more so victory in it, is a matter of prestige and world recognition for any famous athlete, participation in the Paralympic Games for a disabled person primarily means the victory of the spirit over the body, victory over their own helplessness and weakness, recognition of the fact of beauty and the value of life.

Peter Brereton Townsend 1928–2009

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOWARD GLENNERSTER
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Older People ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Peter Townsend was a towering figure in the intellectual history of social policy in the twentieth century. He was both a sociologist and a tireless campaigner for poor and disabled people, who opened up new areas of study in sociology: inequalities suffered by older people and those with disabilities. Townsend was elected to the British Academy in 2004 and was a key member of the Black Review in the late 1970s. He was a Founding Professor at the University of Essex and later held professorships at Bristol and New York universities and the LSE. Obituary by Howard Glennerster FBA.

Memoirs of Sight Loss from Post-Independence Ireland

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-280
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Grubgeld
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Sight Loss ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

Life writing by disabled people in Ireland during the post-independence period constitutes a culturally specific narrative emphasizing the relationship between disability and class and the shaping forces of social and geographical insularity. Because of the often contentious history of activist blind workers in Ireland, as well as the ongoing association between ocular impairments and Ireland's political and economic history, memoirs of sight loss provide a particularly rich field of inquiry into the relationship among disability, class, and the impact of colonialism. Key to this investigation are Sean O'Casey's I Knock at the Door (1939) and Joe Bollard's memoir of mid-century Ireland Out of Sight (1998).

Trading Zones

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sandell ◽  
Jocelyn Dodd ◽  
Ceri Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Experimental Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Disability History ◽  
Trading Zones ◽  
History Of ◽  
Museum Staff ◽  
The Public Sphere

Because of the determined efforts of disability activists, public historians, and other scholars, the hidden history of disabled people is emerging in the public sphere. Although museums and other cultural institutions hold wide-ranging material in their collections that links to the lives of disabled people, its significance is often underresearched and poorly understood. Although disabled people desire greater visibility, like other groups who have been marginalized or misrepresented, they also want to be involved in the process and empowered to make decisions about their representation. Drawing on insights from research and experimental practice, we suggest that the idea of the “trading zone,” the creation of a space of exchange for collaborative and equitable dialogue, provides a way forward for disabled people to make their voices heard in the museum and for museum staff to confront and develop new ways of incorporating disability history into their collections and displays.

scholarly journals The Story of My Work: How I Became Disabled

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Helen Keller ◽  
Feminist Disability Studies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opening Line

<div class="WordSection1"><p>Perhaps the best opening line in disability studies comes from Georgina Kleege: &ldquo;Writing this book made me blind.&rdquo; Following this honorable tradition, I begin my explication of disability studies through my own experience with a similar starting point: &ldquo;Feminism made me disabled.&rdquo; Honoring as well the tradition of making theory through narrative, I also follow Helen Keller, who like Kleege situates her knowledge in the local. From these exemplary works of feminist disability studies, I develop an explication of how I grew disability studies and how it grew me. Throughout, I consider the categories of <em>disabled </em>and <em>nondisabled </em>and the ways in which they have developed in disability studies literature broadly. I conclude by asserting the importance of both access and identity and community for disabled people.&nbsp;</p></div> <p class="Body1"><strong>Keywords:</strong> feminist disability studies, disability identity, misfitting, history of disability studies</p>

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