The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004), pp. 141-157 (17 pages) Emerging from the political activism of disabled people's movements and mainly theorised by the scholar Michael Oliver, the ...

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

Purple Fest was a moment to celebrate how far disability rights have come—but it also illuminated the path ahead for queer movements. If Pride truly needs a ramp, then queer movements must build it ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

As part of the UAE delegation, a selection of social sector entities from Abu Dhabi participated in the Second World Summit ...

One of the maddening aspects of the welfare debate is that the same points are made repeatedly, but policy fails. Sir Charlie ...