Month February 2012

Ableism and Ability Studies

Gregor Wolbring, Associate professor, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, University of Calgary, Canada, Email: gwolbrin@ucalgary.ca As I see it, the theoretical framework and analytical lens of Ableism is a gift from the disabled people rights movement…

Death by a thousand cuts

Jackie Leach Scully, Reader in Social Ethics and Bioethics, Newcastle University, UK Conversations among disabled people in Britain these days circle round and round one topic: the government and what it is doing to us.  And those conversations are full…