“I am more than just my label”: rights, fights, validation and negotiation. Exploring theoretical debates on childhood disability with disabled young people.

Brady, G. ORCID: 0000-0002-3431-6543, Franklin, A. and RIP:STARS, , 2023. “I am more than just my label”: rights, fights, validation and negotiation. Exploring theoretical debates on childhood disability with disabled young people. Sociology of Health and Illness. ISSN 0141-9889 (Forthcoming)

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Abstract

Through the creation of safe spaces in which to explore and challenge dominant negative views of disabled children and young people, this co-written paper presents unique insight into the meaning and impact upon disabled young people’s lives of medical lenses and deficit models of disability. Bodies of work and dominant debates in medical sociology, disability studies and childhood studies have so far largely overlooked the experiences and positioning of disabled children and young people and have rarely involved them in the development or discussion of theory. Drawing on empirical data, and through a series of creative, reflective workshops with a UK-based disabled young researchers’ collective (RIP:STARS), this paper discusses areas of theoretical importance identified by the disabled young researcher collective - the validation of their lives, negotiation of their identity and acceptance in society. The implications, and possibilities, of platforming disabled children and young people’s voices in theoretical debates are deliberated and are achieved through the yielding of privileged academic voice and the development of a symbiotic, genuine partnership which resonates with disabled young people and recognises them as experts in their own lives.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: Sociology of Health and Illness
Creators: Brady, G., Franklin, A. and RIP:STARS,
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 8 April 2023
ISSN: 0141-9889
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Divisions: Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by: Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added: 02 May 2023 10:02
Last Modified: 02 May 2023 10:32
URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48856

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