The New Politics of Disablement

Michael Oliver, Colin Barnes

Bloomsbury Academic, May 8, 2012 - Education - 240 pages

In his 1990 text the Politics of Disablement, Mike Oliver made the groundbreaking proposition that disablement is an institutional, rather than an individual, problem. He provided the first systematic account of the way that definitions of disability and its realities are rooted in economic, social and political structures, and argued that discrimination against disabled people should be challenged as vigorously as racism or sexism.

About the author

MICHAEL OLIVER was the first Professor of Disability Studies in the United Kingdom and is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Greenwich, UK. COLIN BARNES is Professor of Disability and Director of the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The New Politics of Disablement
• Authors: Michael Oliver, Colin Barnes
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
• ISBN: 0333945670, 9780333945674
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Social Science / Disability; Social Science / Social Work