In order to have any chance of success in our campaigns for policies to tackle disabling barriers and enable equal access, we must start from an explicit and vigorous promotion of the welfare state and of the concept of social security in its broadest sense. We need to do this because people of all ages who experience impairment and/or illness are at a disadvantage in a society and an economy where the market is the sole arbiter of opportunities and life chances. In order to experience equal access to full citizenship, disabled people therefore require some kind of collective and re-distributive mechanism to provide the additional requirements needed. Moreover, such redistribution needs to be in the context of a value system which values diversity and where disabled people are treated as belonging and contributing to the communities in which they live. - Jenny Morris (2011)
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 16:00:26 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015