Document Type
Book Chapter
RIS ID
15364
Citation
Harwood, Valerie and Humphry, Nicoli, 2008, Taking exception: discourses of exceptionality and the invocation of the 'ideal', In S. Gabel & S. Danforth (Eds.), Disability and the Politics of Education: An International Reader. New York: Peter Lang., , 371-383.
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Abstract
It has taken a long time for the condition of being positioned as “disabled” to be conceptualized as an oppression, rather than an unproblematic description of the characteristics and functionings of the bodies of some individuals. Even today in the subdiscipline with which I am most familiar, political philosophy, a relatively abstract notion of having a disability still appears in writings concerning justice, desert and responsibility, as the paradigm of the sort of disadvantage people might suffer that is simply a matter of bad luck. (Young, 2002, xii)