Burch, LF orcid.org/0000-0003-1559-3075 (2018) ‘You are a parasite on the productive classes’: online disablist hate speech in austere times. Disability and Society, 33 (3). pp. 392-415. ISSN 0968-7599
Abstract
In response to a climate of austerity, disability has been keyed to a meta-narrative that has a political purpose, to justify extensive welfare cuts by positioning disability as a drain on so-called ‘hard-working taxpayers’. This paper explores how this meta-narrative is articulated on the online bulletin board, Reddit, to show how disablist hate speech may emerge as an attempt to secure one’s sense of self during austere times. A critical discourse analysis (CDA) is employed to reveal these instances and highlights the normalisation of disablist hate speech within the wider context of welfare dependency. Based on these findings, this paper makes recommendations for future research and makes a call for policy change.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Disability and Society on 7th December 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09687599.2017.1411250. |
Keywords: | online hate speech; disablism; austerity; welfare dependency |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2017 14:44 |
Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09687599.2017.1411250 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:125034 |