Course: Disability and a Good Life: Thinking through Disability

As we have discussed throughout this course, the concept of “a good life” is a value-laden one. Everyone has a different idea about what is involved in living a good …

In this step we start to think about the many ways we might learn from people with disabilities to inform new ways of thinking about the organisation of our society, …

Throughout this course, we have been thinking about what living a good life means to us as individuals. In Week 1, we came up with ideas such as caring, inter-dependence, …

One reason it is important and useful to understand intersections between disability and other identities is because there are groups of people with disabilities who are more likely to experience …

When we think about sexuality we usually think about sex or sexual orientation. But what we mean when we talk about sexuality is much broader than that. It involves how …

In this video, Eric Emerson summarises the relationship between disability and poverty, drawing from his own research. Eric extends Karen and Louisa’s discussion of the cycle of disability and poverty. …

As Louisa and Karen explain in the above video, poverty and disability are closely interrelated. They refer to the cycle of disability and poverty mind map, which can be found …

All of us experience different stages and ways of being through our lives. In this video, Kelley and Louisa discuss some of the stories from the four previous steps. They …

Being an adult is when many of the normative assumptions around what it means to have a good life are felt most strongly. There are certain roles and identities which …

In this video Shooshi Dreyfus talks about her son Bodhi’s childhood. As Shooshi points out, it is very difficult speaking for someone else, but including Shooshi’s “educated guess” about what …

In this video, Eric Emerson and Iva Strnadová explain why the life course is important, particularly for people with disabilities. Without including the whole life span, disability studies misses out …

In this video, several expert researchers explain why it is important to count disability, and why it matters how disability is classified. Of course, statistics are about more than individuals. …

When we start to look at how international organisations attempt to categorise and count impairment and disabled people we can immediately see a range of challenges in doing this. Some …

In the above video, Duncan, Steve, Antoni, Jordanna and Vivienne share personal stories about how they have been labeled by others, as well as how they have badged themselves as …

In the previous step, you learned a little about the history of the Disabled People’s Movement and the history of disabled people’s fights to have their rights recognised. In particular, …