Lawson, A orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-0100 and Beckett, A (2021) The social and human rights models of disability: towards a complementarity thesis. The International Journal of Human Rights, 25 (2). pp. 348-379. ISSN 1364-2987
Abstract
This article aims to reorient thinking about the relationship between the long-standing social model of disability and the rapidly emerging human rights model. In particular, it contests the influential view that the latter develops and improves upon the former (the improvement thesis) and argues instead that the two models are complementary (the complementarity thesis). The article begins with a discursive analysis of relevant documents to investigate how each of the two models has been used in the crafting and monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This highlights the increasing importance of the human rights model in this policy context. It also provides examples of the operation of the two models which inform the remainder of the discussion. We then critique the comparisons between the models which underpin the improvement thesis; and, drawing on Foucault’s technologies of power and Beckett and Campbell’s ‘oppositional device’ methodology, deepen and develop this comparative analysis. The result, we argue, is that the two models have different subjects and different functions. In the human rights context, their roles are complementary and supportive.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Disability; UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities; social model of disability; human rights model of disability; Foucault; oppositional device |
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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: | 13 Jul 2020 12:43 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13642987.2020.1783533 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163154 |