Len Barton-s intellectual and practical contribution to the sociology of disability and education is highly significant and widely known. The leading scholars in this collection, including his long term collaborators, offer both a celebration and a reassessment of this contribution, addressing the challenge that the social model of disability has presented to dominant medicalised concepts, categories and practices, and their power to define the identity and the lives of others. At the same time the authors build upon some of the key themes that are woven through Len Barton-s work, such as his call for a -politics of hope-.
This collection explores a wide range of topics, including:
- difference as a field of political struggle
- the relationship of disability studies, disabled people and their struggle for inclusion
- radical activism: organic intellectuals and the disability movement
- discrimination, exclusi
