Books by Helen Meekosha
Chapters by Helen Meekosha
Disability and the dilemmas of education and justice, Jan 1, 1996
Accessed February, Jan 1, 2009
Community Empowerment-A Reader …, Jan 1, 1995
Activism, Service Provision and the State's Intellectuals: Community Work in Australia H... more Activism, Service Provision and the State's Intellectuals: Community Work in Australia Helen Meekosha and Martin Mowbray Introduction Twenty years ago professional community work in Australia was largely regarded as a practice confronting inequalities. Community ...
The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives, Jan 1, 1998
Speaking for the people: …, Jan 1, 2001
Papers by Helen Meekosha
This paper explores the role of disgust in mediating disabled women's experience of workfare in t... more This paper explores the role of disgust in mediating disabled women's experience of workfare in the Australian state. As global social policy has been restructured along neoliberal lines in Western nations, the notion of ‘workfare’ has been widely promulgated. This paper draws on nine case studies from across Australia to explore how this has resulted in disabled women being coerced to participate in a range of workfare programs that are highly bureaucratised, sanitised and moralised. The findings suggest that with the advent of Australian neoliberal welfare reform, some disabled women are increasingly framed in negative affective terms. A primary emotion that appears to govern disabled women forced to participate in Australian neoliberal workfare programs is disgust. The experience of the participants interviewed for this study suggests that the naming of them in negative emotional terms requires disabled women to perform a respectable unruly corporeality to ensure that they gain and maintain access to a range of services and supports, which are vital to their wellbeing.
Disability and Social Theory, 2012
Disability and Social Theory, 2000
Societies, 2012
This paper explores the role of disgust in mediating disabled women's experience of workfare in t... more This paper explores the role of disgust in mediating disabled women's experience of workfare in the Australian state. As global social policy has been restructured along neoliberal lines in Western nations, the notion of ‗workfare' has been widely promulgated. This paper draws on nine case studies from across Australia to explore how this has resulted in disabled women being coerced to participate in a range of workfare programs that are highly bureaucratised, sanitised and moralised. The findings suggest that with the advent of Australian neoliberal welfare reform, some disabled women are increasingly framed in negative affective terms. A primary emotion that appears to govern disabled women forced to participate in Australian neoliberal workfare programs is disgust. The experience of the participants interviewed for this study suggests that the naming of them in negative emotional terms requires disabled women to perform a respectable unruly corporeality to ensure that they gain and maintain access to a range of services and supports, which are vital to their wellbeing.
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies, 2013
Journal of Intercultural Studies, Jan 1, 2002
Disability studies, with their direct challenge to theories of alterity, subaltern status and ide... more Disability studies, with their direct challenge to theories of alterity, subaltern status and ideologies of domination, open up ways of examining cultural diversity that cannot otherwise be approached. This paper examines disability studies as a position from which multicultural ...
Third World Quarterly, Jan 1, 2011
We seek to expose the implications of Australia's exclusionary and discriminatory disability migr... more We seek to expose the implications of Australia's exclusionary and discriminatory disability migration provisions on the health and wellbeing of disabled children who have arrived in Australia through alternative migratory routes. By undertaking an in-depth analysis of a single case study, Ernesto, we bring to the fore the key issues facing disabled immigrant children. These children, like our case study Ernesto, are only granted visas on the proviso that their parents/primary caregivers agree to cover the full costs associated with their disability, including medical care and additional expenses such as educational inclusion. The story of Ernesto reveals the extreme impact of these discriminatory policies on this population's health and wellbeing. Further, we discuss how the state's "right to exclude" people with disabilities from the migratory process negatively affects the health and wellbeing of their siblings and parents.
Disability in the 21st century constitutes a legitimate and growing area of study in the academy.... more Disability in the 21st century constitutes a legitimate and growing area of study in the academy. Interdisciplinary by nature, the origins of disability studies can be traced directly to social movements of disabled people organizing to define disability as a social rather than a medical problem. In the US, disabled sociologists such as Irv Zola, a leader in the American Sociology Association, were key figures in the field's formative years. In Britain, sociologists such as Mike and Colin Barnes, both founding members of the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People (BCODP) used the social model to bridge the divide between disability studies and sociology . Disability studies is now a growth area in the social sciences, the humanities and a host of other disciplines operating across the North/South divide.
This paper argues that the dominance of the global North in the universalising and totalising ten... more This paper argues that the dominance of the global North in the universalising and totalising tendencies of writings about disability has resulted in the marginalisation of these experiences in the global South. This constitutes an intellectual crisis for disability studies in the periphery. The experience of colonisation and colonialism in the global South was both disabling and devastating for the inhabitants. The production of impaired peoples continues as a result of a multiplicity of phenomena including: war and civil strife, nuclear testing, the growth of the arms trade, the export of pollution to 'pollution havens' and the emergence of sweatshops. Yet the agendas of disability pride and celebration in the metropole may appear to stand in stark contrast to the need to prevent mass impairments in the global South. The paper concludes by attempting to articulate a southern theory of disability that challenges some of the implicit values and concepts of contemporary disability studies and includes analyses of the lasting disabling impact of colonialism.
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Books by Helen Meekosha
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