TY - JOUR
AU - Turbett, Colin
AB - Book Reviews 1225 provide an empirically grounded discussion of the ways in which disabled people have contested and resisted past constraints, winning a range of conces- sions, rights and citizenship entitlements over time. The final chapter, Chapter 9, takes the ideas of Chapters 7 and 8 one step further—it seeks to politicise disability studies. Oliver and Barnes discuss the possible extension of disability scholarship and research to the realm of politics, political activism and mobilisation. They argue that, if disabled people are to maintain hope even under the severe restraints of capitalist organisation, then scholarship and re- search must have as their central aim changing these very social relations. In reflecting upon my original question—reverberation or breaking new ground?—I will suggest that this second edition will also become a prominent feature of any disability studies reading list within the UK and possibly else- where. The central aim of the publication is to reassert the key theoretical ideas and concepts established in the first edition and traverse the burgeoning body of work that has arisen in the field to contest these very ideas and concepts. This is what makes it particularly useful on multiple fronts—teaching, research, scholarship and advocacy and 
TI - Social Work with Children and Families: Developing Advanced Practice
JO - The British Journal of Social Work
DO - 10.1093/bjsw/bcs137
DA - 2012-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/social-work-with-children-and-families-developing-advanced-practice-D0LZPDFyJU
SP - 1225
EP - 1227
VL - 42
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -