2010/11/19 by Colin Barnes, Alison Sheldon · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Disability Rights and Representation #Healthcare innovation and challenges #Discrimination and Equality Law #Poverty #Mainstream #Social exclusion #Disabled people #Context (archaeology) #Politics #Inequality #Political science #Sociology #Development economics #Political economy #Economic growth #Gender studies #Economics #Law #Geography #Life style
paper · doi:10.1080/09687599.2010.520889
openalex publication_date 2010/11/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This paper argues that the spread of free market economics throughout the world has generated unprecedented inequalities within and between nation states. This has led to the systematic exclusion of people with perceived impairments from the mainstream of economic and community life in almost all societies, the generation of an international disabled people’s movement, and their demand for legal frameworks with which to address the multiple deprivations encountered by people viewed as ‘disabled’. It is argued that the poverty and exclusion encountered by disabled people and other oppressed groups in all societies will not be eliminated without fundamental structural change at the international level.