scholarly journals Harry Potter and the Stigma of Disability: Squibs as Outsiders to the Magical Universe

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Book Series ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Do So

In the young adult book series Harry Potter, there exists a class of citizens known as Squibs. By all accounts they can be considered a disabled group: they have a ‘disease’ (no magical abilities) that detracts from their overall quality of life and prevents them from operating at a normal level within society. This paper will prove that Squibs are restricted within the fictional world by the institutions of school and government. It will do so by studying Argus Filch and Arabella Figg, two of the most visible Squibs in the series. In this case, the social model of disability and Michel Foucault’s theories about government restrictions on disability will support the idea that Filch and Figg could succeed within the Harry Potter universe if the barriers put in place against the disabled Squibs were removed. In addition, the paper expresses the hope that the fans of Harry Potter will be able to rectify the discriminatory mistakes that the author, J.K. Rowling, has created against Squibs.

scholarly journals Self-care of people with intestinal ostomy: beyond the procedural towards rehabilitation

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Damiana Menis Sasaki ◽  
André Aparecido da Silva Teles ◽  
Natália Michelato Silva ◽  
Tatiana Mara da Silva Russo ◽  
Lorena Alves Pantoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Neoplasia ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Care Experience ◽  
The Social

ABSTRACT Objectives: to interpret the self-care experience of people with intestinal ostomy registered in an ostomy program, based on the framework of the Social Model of Disability. Methods: qualitative exploratory research, with the participation of nine people with intestinal ostomy, based on the Social Model of Disability. Results: majority were elderly, married, male with colostomy due to colorectal neoplasia. The self-care of these people was analyzed in two thematic groups: “Interdisciplinary assistance needed for people with intestinal ostomy” and “Self-care for the rehabilitation of the person with intestinal ostomy”. It was proved that there was a need for a specialized health team, offering information on disabilities, teaching self-care and perioperative follow-up. Final Considerations: when the social barriers of physical disabilities are overcome in the context of assistance for health and life, self-care will go beyond the reductionist vision of procedural care, towards comprehensive care, favoring the achievement of rehabilitation and the quality of survival.

The intersection of disability and in-work poverty in an advanced industrial nation: The lived experience of multiple disadvantage in a post-financial crisis UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Richards ◽  
Kate Sang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Household Finances ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Disabled Workers

The 2007–2008 financial crisis has affected the prospects for workers in a range of ways. In-work poverty represents just one, yet key feature of how prospects for workers have changed in recent times. In-work poverty disproportionately impacts on marginalised groups, such as the disabled. Current research reveals little about how disability and poverty intersect in the context of employment. To address this oversight, life history interviews were conducted with disabled people in in-work poverty. The findings were analysed using the social model of disability and the lens of intersectionality. The results highlight how government policies, employer practices and household finances impact on disabled workers’ lived experience of in-work poverty. The findings suggest that governments and employers can do more to reduce barriers to escaping in-work poverty for disabled workers.

scholarly journals A New Vision Of Management: Full Potential Management Model

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuka Fujimoto ◽  
Charmine E.J. Hartel
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
New Vision

This paper establishes the Full Potential Management (FPM) Model based upon the social model of disabilities coupled with principles of diversity management and disability-oriented human resource management. Despite the fact that the concept of management was once envisioned as having ‘value to society’ by improving the quality of life through efficient practices (Rimler, 1976), management literature has narrowly defined management as a means to gain increased productivity and achieve organizational goals, thus overlooking the social formation and implementation design for a better life (Diener & Seligman, 2004; Small, 2004; Whitley 1989). Based upon the diversity literature, we propose that social-oriented diversity management principles and practices are the key to transforming management concepts from achieving organizational potential to achieving social aims that maximize the potential and quality of life of each person.

Disability, Identity, and Early Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Emma Creedon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Irish Drama ◽  
The Disabled

This essay assesses the role of physical disability in early twentieth-century Irish dramatic literature. In particular, by focusing on such plays as W.B. Yeats's On Baile's Strand (1903) and the character of Johnny Boyle in Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock (1924), it critiques the tradition of identifying characters with disabilities solely by their physical impairment and exploiting disability as metaphor; physical disability has been historically employed as a synecdoche for a thwarted morality, or blindness as an allegory for prophecy. However, scholarly criticisms of the Social Model of Disability have demonstrated how disability can be reappropriated to reconceptualize notions of bodily normalcy. Furthermore, this essay suggests that the convention of “cripping up”, an industry term describing the practice of an able-bodied actor playing a character with a physical disability, contributes to the marginalization of those with physical disability in Irish culture. The result is the potential degradation of the disabled body, a stylized performance evoking vaudevillian conventions; performance thus engenders belief in stereotype.

scholarly journals Karmic Philosophy and the Model of Disability in Ancient India

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Neha Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Ancient Times

Disability has been the inescapable part of human society from ancient times. With the thrust of disability right movements and development in field of disability studies, the mythical past of disability is worthy to study. Classic Indian Scriptures mention differently able character in prominent positions. There is a faulty opinion about Indian mythology is that they associate disability chiefly with evil characters. Hunch backed Manthara from Ramayana and limping legged Shakuni from Mahabharata are negatively stereotyped characters. This paper tries to analyze that these characters were guided by their motives of revenge, loyalty and acted more as dramatic devices to bring crucial changes in plot. The deities of lord Jagannath  in Puri is worshipped , without limbs, neck and eye lids which strengthens the notion that disability is an occasional but all binding phenomena in human civilization. The social model of disability brings forward the idea that the only disability is a bad attitude for the disabled as well as the society. In spite of his abilities Dhritrashtra did face discrimination because of his blindness. The presence of characters like sage Ashtavakra and Vamanavtar of Lord Vishnu indicate that by efforts, bodily limitations can be transcended.

scholarly journals People with disabilities and employment, intimate relationships, marriage and parenthood

2015 ◽  
pp. 619-628
Author(s):  
Marija Cvijetic
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Adults With Disabilities ◽  
The Social

This paper deals with the participation of people with disabilities in the society. Participation is one of the central concepts in international documents that were created under the influence of the social model of disability, which has shifted the focus of responsibility from one?s impairment to his/her environment. Review of experiences of adults with disabilities regarding the obstacles they face in relation to employment, intimate relationships, marriage and parenthood shows that the intensity and quality of participation of people with disabilities depend on a complex interaction between a person?s characteristics and specificities and his/her immediate and wider environment.

Disability, work, and welfare

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Barnes ◽  
Geof Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
The Social ◽  
British Labour ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Recent Developments

This article engages with debates relating to social policy and disabled people’s exclusion from the British labour market. Drawing on recent developments from within the disabled people’s movement, in particular, the concept of independent living and the social model of disability, and the associated disability studies literature, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to disabled people’s exclusion from the workplace is provided. It is argued that hitherto, analyses of work and disability have failed to address in sufficient depth or breadth the various social and environmental barriers that confront disabled people. It is suggested therefore that a reconfiguration of the meaning of work for disabled people - drawing on and commensurate with disabled people’s perspectives as expressed by the philosophy of independent living - and a social model analysis of their oppression is needed and long overdue.

scholarly journals DISABILITY AND SOCIAL MEDIA: EXPLORING UTILIZATION OF INSTRAGRAM PLATFORM AS A TOOL FOR DISABILITY ADVOCACY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-250
Author(s):  
Ani Cahyadi ◽  
Agus Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Group Interest ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Share Information

Social media such as Instagram has been a tool to facilitate subjective interests of its users, either individually or collectively. Furthermore, Instagram is an effective campaign and advocacy tool for issues like disability and inclusiveness. Therefore, this study aims to explore how this platform is used as an advocacy tool for the disabled and its relation with disability advocacy from the phenomenological approach. The respondents in this study were two actors with disabilities, while the informants were four individuals from the Banjarbilitas group that care about disabilities. Data analysis was carried out using the Social Model of Disability. The discoveries of this study lead to two main points. Firstly, Instagram as a new social media, has transformed into an important networking platform, which provides opportunities for the disabled to advocate and negotiate their existence and that of their groups in relation to equality in society. Secondly, it has provided them with basic access to job vacancies, freedom to express themselves, connect with other individuals and share information and most significantly the opportunity to facilitate both their personal and group interest in order to increase their prosperity and accessibility progressively and comprehensively.

scholarly journals Graphic illustration of impairment: science fiction, Transmetropolitan and the social model of disability

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Disability Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Graphic Illustration ◽  
Political Apathy ◽  
Key Events

The following paper examines the cyberpunk transhumanist graphic novel Transmetropolitan through the theoretical lens of disability studies to demonstrate how science fiction, and in particular this series, illustrate and can influence how we think about disability, impairment and difference. While Transmetropolitan is most often read as a scathing political and social satire about abuse of power and the danger of political apathy, the comic series also provides readers with representations of impairment and the source of disability as understood by the Social Model of Disability (SMD). Focusing on the setting and fictional world in which Transmetropolitan takes place, as well as key events and illustration styling, this paper demonstrates that the narrative in this work encompasses many of the same theoretical underpinnings and criticisms of society’s ignorance of the cause of disability as the SMD does. This paper aims, by demonstrating how Transmetropolitan can be read as an allegory for the disabling potential of society as experienced by individuals with impairments, to prompt readers into thinking more creatively about how narratives, seemingly unconcerned with disability, are informed and can be understood via disability theory.

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