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  • AM. Williams et al. 2017. Understanding Disabling Barriers. Disabling Society.

    Rights statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Disability and Society on 30/11/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09687599.2017.1401527

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Understanding disabling barriers: a fruitful partnership between Disability Studies and social practices?

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  • Val Williams
  • Beth Tarleton
  • Pauline Heslop
  • Sue Porter
  • Bernd Sass
  • Stanley John Blue
  • Wendy Merchant
  • Victoria Mason-Angelow
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>02/2018
<mark>Journal</mark>Disability and Society
Issue number2
Volume33
Number of pages18
Pages (from-to)157-174
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date30/11/17
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Disabled people are regularly denied their human rights, since policies and laws are hard to translate literally into practice. This article aims to make connections between social practice theories and Disability Studies, in order to understand the problems faced by disabled people, using different methods to look in detail at how practices are shaped and how disabled people get excluded. Disabled people are active agents in making change, both informally on an everyday basis and through formal actions. Thus we also suggest that the insights of disabled people could bring a fresh perspective to social practice theories, by troubling the taken-for-granted in our everyday lives.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Disability and Society on 30/11/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09687599.2017.1401527