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  • Missing discourses: concepts of joy and happiness in disability

    Author(s)
    Sunderland, Naomi
    Catalano, Tara
    Kendall, Elizabeth
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Kendall, Elizabeth
    Sunderland, Naomi L.
    Year published
    2009
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    Abstract
    This 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 show that while official professional and public discourses on disability and rehabilitation exhibit predominantly negative discursive patterns and features (i.e. aspirations to achieve 'normality' and a negative lexicon, such as ...
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    This 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 show that while official professional and public discourses on disability and rehabilitation exhibit predominantly negative discursive patterns and features (i.e. aspirations to achieve 'normality' and a negative lexicon, such as disability, coping, rehabilitation, burden, abnormality, etc.) there are many other potentially positive and empowering discursive 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 policy-makers and academics alike need to be sensitive to the dynamics of discourse when constructing research and developing policy.
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    Journal Title
    Disability & Society
    Volume
    24
    Issue
    6
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09687590903160175
    Subject
    Specialist studies in education
    Social work
    Sociology
    Other human society not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/30349
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