Talk:Disability studies/Archive 1

Excessive External links
The "External links" list is far too long - it should contain only a handful of the most impostant and universally relevant links. It should not contain a bunch of links to an arbitrary selection of university DS programme websites. See WP:EL, WP:ELNO and WP:ELNEVER for guidance on what should be included and excluded. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:27, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Particularly individual courses or institutions are not appropriate.--  SabreBD  (talk ) 13:25, 7 May 2013 (UTC)


 * The Bibliography is a similarly arbitrary collection of "stuff" which doesn't actually serve any purpose in the article. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:48, 7 May 2013 (UTC)


 * This problem is getting worse - the WP:LISTCRUFT needs to be pruned back. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:22, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

unsubstantiated claims
I agree with the below Kikidawgzzz. This article is heavily slanted and biased in terms of its political viewpoint. Just about every point made is couched in Crypto-Marxist Language.

i have added the link to Marxism. Since so much of the writing & ideological driven phrases aka 'The Personal is Political' arise from Marxism.

I am of the opinion that there is a strong need to return a more balanced sociopolitical point of view to the writing.

Moreover, not everything to do with Disability Studies can or should be described in terms of the political.

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As I also say over at the WikiProject page, this article's number of unsubstantiated claims is so high that it actually makes for a major problem given its inherent status as a more "top-priority" article in the Disability series on Wikipedia. I hope that those of us working on these things, and other editors too, can add appropriate citations. Kikodawgzzz (talk) 15:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Thank you - were you thinking specifically of the "Criticisms" section there? There are at least two "Citation needed" tags there. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:20, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

The only "citation" listed in the "Criticisms" section is a link to a PDF of political diatribe peppered throughout with specious, non-evidential claims. The cited "article" is not a peer-reviewed article published in a reputable journal. The "Criticisms" section as it is now written should be regarded with high suspicion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.214.68.72 (talk) 21:44, 3 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I just rewrote the introduction, so that it was better sourced and included some of the history (in the US). I included the resent shift toward interdisciplinary connections and criticism of the Social Model. I'm going to go ahead and delete the stuff in the criticism section that doesn't relate to a specific tenant of the field (e.g. the shifting toward identity politics). If you can find a relevant source, please feel free to add it back in. I did find a source for criticism of disability studies for not exploring connections to race, gender, and sexuality studies.
 * social model:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0968759042000181776#.VRR8IUv_xYY
 * connections: http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1273/1303

Also I haven't used this introduction to a collection of disability related essays in Women, Gender, and Families of Color, but it seems potentially useful: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/women_gender_and_families_of_color/v002/2.2.ben-moshe.html Xttina.Garnet (talk) 20:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Potential references
I am rescuing the following references from article How disability should be researched by, tagged for speedy deletion as a duplicate of this article (CSD A10), as these references may be useful for this article, even if the content is not.
 * Barnes, C. (2003). "What a Difference a Decade Makes: Reflections on doing 'emancipitory' disability research". Disability & Society, 3-17.
 * Bernard, R. (2013). Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Thousands Oak: SAGE Publication, Inc.
 * Bricher, G. (2000). "Disabled People, Health Professionals and the Social Model of Disability: can there be a research relationship?" Disability and Society, 781-793.
 * Clear, M. (1999). "The 'Normal' and the Monstrous in Disability Research". Disability and Society, 435-448.
 * Morrison, L. J. (2006). "A Matter of Definition: Acknowledging Consumer/Survivor Experiences through Narrative". Radical Psychology, 60-79.
 * Oliver, M. (1992). "Changing the Social Relations of Research Production". Disability and Society, 101-113.
 * Oliver, M. (1983). The Individual and Social Model of Disability. London: UPSIA.
 * Oliver, M., & Colin, B. (1997). "All We Are Saying is Give Disabled Researchers a Chance". Disability and Society, 811-813.

הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 04:18, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Here is some interesting things I found while working on the history section: Xttina.Garnet (talk) 00:09, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Penny L. Richards (2004). "Disability and the Historical Geography of Immigration", Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 24, No. 3. http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/505/682.
 * Kim E. Nielsen (2008). "Historical Thinking and Disability History" Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 28, No.3. http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/107/107 (Note: really interesting article about how other areas of oppression can be viewed though the disability model).
 * Negin H. Goodrich (2014) "A Persian Alice in Disability Literature Wonderland: Disability Studies in Iran" Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, No.2, http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4255
 * Lisa Pfahl, Justin J.W. Powell (2014). "Subversive Status: Disability Studies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland" Disability Studies Quarterly. Vol. 34, No. 2. http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4256

Notable works section
Notable according to whom? &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 22:10, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

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Edits to Criticism section
Hello all, I've expanded a bit under the "Exclusion..." heading. I've also added a few relevant citations. Will be back soon with more edits. Msoposky (talk) 03:42, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello again--I've just updated my citation with page numbers. Thank you to Mathglot for the reminder! Msoposky (talk) 00:52, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Well done. And if you want extra credit, there's a niggly little style convention in Wikipedia, this is like #9,999 on the list of things to learn here, so don't waste too many brain cells trying to remember it, but when you indicate a page range, like e.g., "pages=131-132", rather than using a hyphen in there, there's a style preference at Wikipedia for an en dash which is a teensy bit longer, don't ask me why. So: "pages=131–132".  Depending on what browser you're using, and how good your eyes are, you might not even be able to see the difference.  I wouldn't bother going back to correct this, because it's so minor, and also, a bot will come along after a while, and just fix it for you.  If you want to use the en dash going forward, most computer keyboards don't have it, but smart phones do (press and hold hyphen, then select the medium length one).  You can also use the Html entity   and that will generate one for you; e.g., "pages=131–132". (Edit this section to prove it to yourself.)
 * Ya did good. Hth, Mathglot (talk) 01:10, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello again--I've expanded this section further. Looking forward to any suggested edits! Msoposky (talk) 02:01, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Crip theory now a redirect to this page
I have just redirected Crip theory to this page, however, I suspect that it really deserves its own article (it has a stub article on the Swedish Wikipedia). Not got time at the moment to give it a decent start. Mais oui! (talk) 18:38, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Mais oui! (talk) Hello, I am a new editor and I am interested in creating a page for crip theory would you like to collaborate? PhePheB (talk) 18:30, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

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expanding the gender and sexuality section
Hey y'all, I've been slowly working to expand information about crip theory. It needs its own page, but alas I do not have the time. For now, it will have to reside here and exist as a bare-bones mapping of sources. I have also removed some passages that had unsubstantiated claims. PhePheB (talk) 23:47, 28 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I expanded on the Gender and Sexuality section as well. I added a sub section on Queer/Disabled invisibilty and negativity and a short activism section as well. There are more edits that can be made given more time. Phoenix Spoor  (talk) 19:46, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Please note that there is also an article Sexuality and disability that needs attention too. Some of the content here, which is arguably excessively detailed for this article, could be moved there. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 14:44, 21 February 2022 (UTC)