From isolated fence to inclusive society: the transformational disability policy in China

China’s disability policies are changing, some of which are gradually closer to the requirements of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Based on the social model of disability, this article explains the driving forces of disability policy reform, and especially adopts the critical policy analysis approach to evaluate the revised education policy along with the rehabilitation policy of disabled people. The inclusive education policy is improving disability policy issues the most compared with others because of the disability advocacy by disabled persons’ self-help organizations. Meanwhile, the nascent rehabilitation policy is typically top-down oriented by the government. Public participation may be the main way forward, especially with the growth of the disability movement in China. It is hoped that scholars pay more attention to the transformational disability policy in non-western settings.     

Achievements of and challenges facing the Korean Disabled People’s Movement

Abstract

This paper provides a critical review of the development of the disabled people’s movement in South Korea since 1945, reflecting both its achievements and the obstacles it has faced. In particular, political positions and responses to the movement’s agitation against socio-cultural discrimination and inequality are discussed. Further, three key theoretical foundations of the movement are examined in order to describe the diversity inherent therein. This paper concludes that the disabled people’s movement has heavily influenced the values, norms, and systems of Korean society, but it has predominantly focused on integrating disability issues into policy and legislation, not on changing society and culture. Hence, the Korean Disabled People’s Movement is currently facing many challenges that are major threats towards its future development.     

Lay theories and criticisms of mental health news: elaborating the concept of biocommunicability

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This article examines how mental health service users/consumers, advocates, professionals and researchers interpret and theorise the impacts of mental health news. It focuses on the following themes: Creating fears about mental illness by focusing on criminal and violent acts; Reinforcing power imbalances by privileging biomedical issues and sources; and Sanitising mental health issues through the selective use of personal narratives. The study draws upon the concept of biocommunicability, which casts light on the performative power of health news in reinforcing ideas and expectations about the appropriate role for different actors to adopt in relation to health knowledge. Previous research on health news has identified biomedical authority, patient-consumer and public sphere as three predominant models of biocommunicability and this article examines how these are bound up with criticisms of mental health news. The findings are related to the ‘mediatisation of psychiatric culture’ as one of extremes and perspectives from Mad Studies.     

The nation’s body: disability and deviance in the writings of Adolf Hitler

This article takes its starting point in the Nazi ideology as it appears in the writings of Adolf Hitler, and discusses how disability and the body can be understood in the context of Mein Kampf. The article underlines how disability and bodily infirmities, alongside race, featured significantly in Hitler’s demagogic message. Although the overall image of disability was related to a sense of threat – and a culture gone wrong – Mein Kampf also contains a mixed interpretation of disability as a phenomenon, in which different and opposing disability narratives took part in the construction and the image of the body as a national property.     

日本的中东研究——以《日本中东学会年报》为例

本文主要以《日本中东学会年报》为例,介绍了日本中东研究的概况。日本对中东的研究相当深入,研究方法呈现多样化,且国际化和多学科的特点值得我们借鉴,但其与现实政治保持距离的做法值得商榷。     

苏州残疾人社会保障状况和发展研究

从现代“社会增权型”残疾人社会保障的观点来看。苏州市残疾人社会保障制度仍然受到了传统“生活补救型”残疾人保障观的束缚,应该探索适应社会主义市场经济体制的残疾人保障新模式,以增进残疾人的市场行为能力,使其融入社会生活,同时重建苏州市残疾人社会保障制度。     

《国际馆藏东巴经典编目举要》的编纂背景及其价值意义

2012年度国家社会科学基金重大项目“世界记忆遗产-东巴经典传承体系数字化国际共享平台建设研究”对进一步抢救、保护、传承、利用东巴经典及其纳西族文化具有极其重要的政治、经济、社会、文化价值,尤其具有人文与科技相结合、创造性转化与创新性发展优秀传统文化的探索性、学术性意义。其中的科学采集、释读、编目,当是实现建立东巴经典传承体系数字化国际共享平台课题目标的基础性、基本性工作。没有它,便没有中后期的东巴经典数字化加工、检索与网络传播,东巴经典数字化国际共享平台的建设运行,以及东巴经典数据库与知识库的建库、管理及利用。《国际馆藏东巴经典举要》作为该课题重要的基础性研究成果之一,对其编撰背景的回顾和价值意义的阐释,对进一步推进纳西学研究具有深远的意义。     

Racing tradition: Catholic schooling and the maintenance of boundaries

This article seeks to add to the underdeveloped strain of inquiry on the raced social experience of students in private and parochial institutions. We examine the role Catholic schools in the city of Chicago play in the maintenance and creation of racially problematic policies, spaces, and rhetoric. The research uncovers a multitude of responses framing African American students as an exotic other in mission and action through the leveraging of liturgical, ideological, and political language and practice. Using Cultural Studies and Critical Race Theory the work seeks to create a discursive space for representation and resistance in the repositioning of dominant and sanguineous narratives about Catholic schooling both in the US and globally. We use moments when race became particularly and often painfully salient in our experiences of Catholic schooling to expose the structural and racial inequity perpetuated in establishing and enforcing racial barriers to success through religion-for-segregation educational policies.     

Migration,technology and care: what happens to the body?

Migration is a social phenomenon impacting upon family life and conceptualisations of care. Simultaneously, technological advances allow families to stay connected. Care issues in the context of disability and aging may affect family relationships and how families develop. What is little understood is how these issues in migrant families affect a ‘family life course’. We use the case of a South African family with a daughter who is deaf and has other impairments. We argue that when communication is foregrounded and other, embodied, aspects of family care are relegated to the background, we lose the opportunity to understand family care patterns. We relate our discussion to broader theoretical questions regarding the body and care in disability studies.