Griffiths, M orcid.org/0000-0003-2592-0869 (2023) Declare Independence : Independent Living, Oppositional Devices, and Heterotopias. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, 3 (1). pp. 24-41. ISSN 2732-4036
Abstract
This article presents an original and critical interrogation of how disabled activists establish claims and coordinate activities to progress the independent living agenda. The article achieves this by employing Beckett and Campbell’s (2015) concept of ‘oppositional device’, which is used to understand resistance practices and the technologies of power that coalesce around disabled people’s collective action. The article argues that the independent living concept could, similarly, be understood as an oppositional device and this holds potential for furthering the emancipatory claims of disabled people’s social movements. This allows for an understanding of Independent Living Movements as assemblages of technologies that open heterotopias, which engage in the experimentation of what disabled people can be and do through the ideas of independent living. The article draws on empirical data from a study exploring young disabled people’s views and experiences of disability activism across Europe to evidence the claims made.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Miro Griffiths. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | activism, disability, heterotopias, independent living, oppositional device, power, resistance, social movements |
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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) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Leverhulme Trust ECF-2019-427 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 May 2023 08:37 |
Last Modified: | 12 May 2023 08:37 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Pluto Journals |
Identification Number: | 10.13169/intljofdissocjus.3.1.0024 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:199084 |