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dc.contributor.convenorDiana Slade and Alistair Pennycook
dc.contributor.authorSunderland, Naomi
dc.contributor.authorCatalano, Tara
dc.contributor.authorKendall, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.editorDiana Slade and Alistair Pennycook
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:16:52Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:16:52Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2008-04-13T23:29:19Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/17570
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses a series of representations of disability and rehabilitation taken from research and policy settings in Australia. The purpose of the analysis is to a) identify the presence or absence of discourses of happiness and joy in the contexts analysed and b) to analyse the various treatments and interpretations of happiness and joy that are present. Through this analysis, we seek to show that while "official" professional and public discourses on disability and rehabilitation exhibit predominantly negative discoursal patterns and features (i.e. aspirations to achieve 'normality' and negative lexicon such as dis-ability, coping, rehabilitation, burden, abnormality, etc.) there are many other potentially positive and empowering discoursal and narrative patterns and features that remain hidden beneath negatively oriented ways of seeing, being, acting, and describing in academic, policy, and practice settings. We argue that the general absence of concepts of joy and happiness in "official" discourses on disability and rehabilitation has significant ramifications for our cultural understandings of disability; for the lives of people with disability and their families; and for academics and service providers who are faced with predominantly negative and morally distressing discourses of disability and rehabilitation as part of their day to day workplace cultures.
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Sydney
dc.publisher.placeUniversity of Sydney
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencenameDiscourses and Cultural Practices
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleDiscourses and Cultural Practices
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2007-11-29
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2007-12-01
dc.relation.ispartoflocationUniversity of Sydney
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMulti-Disciplinary
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode999999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode321212
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440104
dc.titleMissing Discourses: Concepts of joy and happiness in disability and rehabilitation policy, discourse, and practice
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE3 - Conferences (Extract Paper)
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Human Services and Social Work
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKendall, Elizabeth
gro.griffith.authorCatalano, Tara M.
gro.griffith.authorSunderland, Naomi L.


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