Alan Roulstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 253059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Roulstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Roulstone |
| SIGNATURE | ROULSTONE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Disability and social policy
This chapter critically explores the factors that have shaped policies for disabled and chronically sick people over time. It provides a policy typology that summarises historic developments and then considers post-war developments in substantive policy for disabled people. It argues that although conceptually policy frameworks have become much more progressive, the impact of policy change has been much more limited. It highlights the fact that d…
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies
This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting-edge areas as well as core areas of contention.\nDivided in …
Enterprising? Disabled? The status and potential for disabled people’s microenterprise in South Korea
This article explores the position, potential and scope for self-employment and microenterprise for disabled South Koreans. The chronic barriers experienced in disabled people gaining paid work suggest that self-employment and enterprise might offer a good alternative to paid work. The self-determined nature of running a microenterprise has been shown to connect with disabled people who may not conform to standardised notions of body and brain th…
Disabled people, choices and collective organisation: Examining the potential of cooperatives in future social support
Major shifts in funding, demography, personal expectations and the rise of a global disabled people’s movement require new and creative solutions to the choices and rights agenda into the twenty-first century. Direct payments and the individual employment of personal assistants is one clear and recognised path to independent living. However, there have been some reservations about the nature, process and impact of the broader personalisation agen…
Personal Independence Payments, welfare reform and the shrinking disability category
The question of who counts and how we construct just who can ‘be disabled’ is central to our concerns in disability studies. As Stone makes clear, disability is exactly what a state deems it to be; the very malleable nature of the category has been exploited to widen or more commonly to narrow just who counts as disabled. This article will apply and adapt Stone’s thesis to current plans to revise the Personal Independence Payment extra costs bene…
The question of access: Disability, space and meaning
The Question of Access is a book which aims to convey the constructions of access in the context of higher education in Canada and which engages with deeply held (but disavowed) notions of who belo
Vic Finkelstein, disability rights and lessons for contemporary social work
Flexible and personalised? An evaluation of a UK tailored employment support programme for jobseekers with enduring mental health problems and learning difficulties
The employment position of people with enduring mental health issues and learning difficulties (intellectual impairment) is a major policy and moral challenge. The continued exclusion from paid work for those disabled people who are otherwise keen to work is marked in Western Europe even in high per capita welfare states. The paradox here is that disabled people have received policy and programme attention, but arguably programmes have become inc…
Disability research in the Nordic context – progress and challenges in investment welfare states 1970–2013
Disability research and disability studies in the twenty-first century are almost unrecognisable compared to, for example, work that was completed on disability only 20–30 years ago. Disability research and disability studies may still be constructed as different entities: disability research shading into medical and rehabilitation studies, while disability studies is almost entirely concerned with the social aspects of disability. However, the t…
Being disabled, being a manager: ‘Glass Partitions’ and Conditional Identities in the Contemporary Workplace
This article critically explores the working lives and views of disabled senior staff working in UK organisations. The qualitative research at the core of the article establishes that some disabled people are confounding established notions of disabled people only working in peripheral employment roles by exploring the working lives and perceptions of disabled managers. The findings do, however, point to continued barriers to what disabled staff …
Understanding disability policy
In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled'. Understanding Disability Policy locates disability po…
New technology and emerging spaces of care
Social policy and transitions to training and work for disabled young people in the United Kingdom: Neo-liberalism for better and for worse
Although New Labour distanced itself from the neo-liberal ‘underclass’ discourses of its predecessors, its approach to disabled young people maintained key aspects of neo-liberalism, particularly an emphasis on individuals’ human capital, aspirations and self-investments as causes of and solutions to disabled young people’s unemployment. This is also apparent in early Coalition government statements. Since the 1990s, policies have focused on prov…
Studying disability: Multiple theories and responses
by Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2011, 264 pp., £33.99/$52.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-41-297576-6 This is a multi-disciplinary book that is pitche
Routledge handbook of disability studies
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting edge areas as well as core areas of contention. Divided in …
Exploring disability: A sociological introduction. Second edition
by Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer, Cambridge, Polity, 2010, 288 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 13‐978‐0‐7456‐3485‐2, £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 13‐978‐0‐7456‐3486‐9 by Michael Oliver, Basingstoke, Macmil
Between hate and vulnerability: Unpacking the British criminal justice system’s construction of disablist hate crime
Hate crime is now an established term in the fields of racist and religious attacks and is acknowledged in the cultural proscription against attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women. Disabled people, as so often is the case, are late in being afforded statutory recognition in hate crime. This can be explained in terms of wider constructions of disability and more pernicious and muddled constructions of disabled people as ca…
New Technology and Emerging Spaces of Care
New Technology and Emerging Spaces of Care is a multi-disciplinary edited collection that explores the key challenges and implications wrought by changes in new technologies, care contexts and care relationships—both formal and informal. As with many edited collections, themes are wide ranging from SmartHomes, through biological remote preventive monitors/sensors to telecare alarms to alert help. The care contexts examined include home care, hosp…
RiDE themed issue – On Disability: Creative Tensions in Applied Theatre: an extended review
RiDE themed issue – On disability: Creative tensions in applied theatre: an extended review
Neo-Liberal Individualism or Self-Directed Support: Are We All Speaking the Same Language on Modernising Adult Social Care
This article explores recent developments in the modernisation of adult social care through the lens of changes to English day services. Drawing on wider policy debates, it argues that Disabled Peoples' Movement and governmental ideas on self-directed support, although superficially similar, are growing increasingly apart. It is argued that in the absence of adequate funding and exposure to organisations of disabled people, day service recipients…
Disabled people and self‐directed support schemes: Reconceptualising work and welfare in the 21st century
This article critically explores and adds to research on the social benefits of self‐directed support schemes for disabled people and their families. We argue that, although research to date has defined the benefits of such services within conventional ‘cost–benefit’ frameworks, this approach has failed to address the more significant challenge to traditional models of welfare and, particularly, the role of users of these schemes as employers. Th…
More policies, greater inclusion? Exploring the contradictions of New Labour inclusive education policy
The era of New Labour government has witnessed unprecedented growth in inclusive education policies. There is, however, limited evidence that policies have increased disabled children’s inclusion. This article explores reasons for this contradiction. Drawing on sociological insights, it is argued that New Labour policies on inclusive education take their cues from wider neo‐liberal constructions of social exclusion; ideas that point to the person…
Policy, experience and change: Cross cultural reflections on inclusive education
edited by L. Barton and F. Armstrong, Springer, Dortrecht, 2007, 199 pp., £69 (hardback), ISBN 1‐4020‐5118‐2 This edited collection represents a significant contribution to our understanding of inc
Applying a barriers approach to monitoring disabled people’s employment: Implications for the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 1
The year 2005 witnessed the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 through Parliament. The Act responds in part to the perceived need for more proactive legislation that seeks to encourage good employer and service provider practice from the outset and diminish discriminatory action. This article focuses on the employment provisions of the 2005 Act. The article is based on a scoping study carried out during the gestation of the Act tha…
Routledge handbook of disability studies
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting edge areas as well as core areas of contention. Divided in …
Neo-Liberal Individualism or Self-Directed Support: Are We All Speaking the Same Language on Modernising Adult Social Care
This article explores recent developments in the modernisation of adult social care through the lens of changes to English day services. Drawing on wider policy debates, it argues that Disabled Peoples' Movement and governmental ideas on self-directed support, although superficially similar, are growing increasingly apart. It is argued that in the absence of adequate funding and exposure to organisations of disabled people, day service recipients…
Between hate and vulnerability: Unpacking the British criminal justice system’s construction of disablist hate crime
Hate crime is now an established term in the fields of racist and religious attacks and is acknowledged in the cultural proscription against attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women. Disabled people, as so often is the case, are late in being afforded statutory recognition in hate crime. This can be explained in terms of wider constructions of disability and more pernicious and muddled constructions of disabled people as ca…
Disability, Dependency and the New Deal for Disabled People
The emergence of the 'New Deal' and its attendant claim to be part of a new political and social future based on the 'third way' seems to offer formerly excluded people new horizons for social inclusion. This paper provides a critical exploration of the likely impact of the 'New Deal' for disabled people. The paper contextualises the 'New Deal' in the wider ideology and rhetoric of 'Welfare to Work'. In doing so, it highlights similarities betwee…
Personal Independence Payments, welfare reform and the shrinking disability category
The question of who counts and how we construct just who can ‘be disabled’ is central to our concerns in disability studies. As Stone makes clear, disability is exactly what a state deems it to be; the very malleable nature of the category has been exploited to widen or more commonly to narrow just who counts as disabled. This article will apply and adapt Stone’s thesis to current plans to revise the Personal Independence Payment extra costs bene…
Being disabled, being a manager: ‘Glass Partitions’ and Conditional Identities in the Contemporary Workplace
This article critically explores the working lives and views of disabled senior staff working in UK organisations. The qualitative research at the core of the article establishes that some disabled people are confounding established notions of disabled people only working in peripheral employment roles by exploring the working lives and perceptions of disabled managers. The findings do, however, point to continued barriers to what disabled staff …
Social policy and transitions to training and work for disabled young people in the United Kingdom: Neo-liberalism for better and for worse
Although New Labour distanced itself from the neo-liberal ‘underclass’ discourses of its predecessors, its approach to disabled young people maintained key aspects of neo-liberalism, particularly an emphasis on individuals’ human capital, aspirations and self-investments as causes of and solutions to disabled young people’s unemployment. This is also apparent in early Coalition government statements. Since the 1990s, policies have focused on prov…
Disabled people and self‐directed support schemes: Reconceptualising work and welfare in the 21st century
This article critically explores and adds to research on the social benefits of self‐directed support schemes for disabled people and their families. We argue that, although research to date has defined the benefits of such services within conventional ‘cost–benefit’ frameworks, this approach has failed to address the more significant challenge to traditional models of welfare and, particularly, the role of users of these schemes as employers. Th…
Disabling Pasts, Enabling Futures? How Does the Changing Nature of Capitalism Impact on the Disabled Worker and Jobseeker
This article is a theoretical exploration of debates on the impact of industrial capitalism on disabled people. The article draws on fresh historical evidence to question the monolithic interpretations of the impact of capitalism on disabled people. It looks at the role of old social movements and their potential to complement new social movements in supporting the economic position and policy responses to disabled people. Whilst not denying the …
More policies, greater inclusion? Exploring the contradictions of New Labour inclusive education policy
The era of New Labour government has witnessed unprecedented growth in inclusive education policies. There is, however, limited evidence that policies have increased disabled children’s inclusion. This article explores reasons for this contradiction. Drawing on sociological insights, it is argued that New Labour policies on inclusive education take their cues from wider neo‐liberal constructions of social exclusion; ideas that point to the person…
Applying a barriers approach to monitoring disabled people’s employment: Implications for the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 1
The year 2005 witnessed the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 through Parliament. The Act responds in part to the perceived need for more proactive legislation that seeks to encourage good employer and service provider practice from the outset and diminish discriminatory action. This article focuses on the employment provisions of the 2005 Act. The article is based on a scoping study carried out during the gestation of the Act tha…
Disability research in the Nordic context – progress and challenges in investment welfare states 1970–2013
Disability research and disability studies in the twenty-first century are almost unrecognisable compared to, for example, work that was completed on disability only 20–30 years ago. Disability research and disability studies may still be constructed as different entities: disability research shading into medical and rehabilitation studies, while disability studies is almost entirely concerned with the social aspects of disability. However, the t…
Disabled people, choices and collective organisation: Examining the potential of cooperatives in future social support
Major shifts in funding, demography, personal expectations and the rise of a global disabled people’s movement require new and creative solutions to the choices and rights agenda into the twenty-first century. Direct payments and the individual employment of personal assistants is one clear and recognised path to independent living. However, there have been some reservations about the nature, process and impact of the broader personalisation agen…
The Legal Road to Rights? Disabling Premises, Obiter Dicta and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
This article offers a critical exploration of the current limits of the law in establishing and maintaining the rights of disabled people. By offering a critical jurisprudence perspective and applying this to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the article highlights the way in which pre-existing social dynamics underpin the manufacture and application of law. Despite the growth of social constructionist, realist, critical and post-modern vie…
Vic Finkelstein, disability rights and lessons for contemporary social work
Flexible and personalised? An evaluation of a UK tailored employment support programme for jobseekers with enduring mental health problems and learning difficulties
The employment position of people with enduring mental health issues and learning difficulties (intellectual impairment) is a major policy and moral challenge. The continued exclusion from paid work for those disabled people who are otherwise keen to work is marked in Western Europe even in high per capita welfare states. The paradox here is that disabled people have received policy and programme attention, but arguably programmes have become inc…
Policy, experience and change: Cross cultural reflections on inclusive education
edited by L. Barton and F. Armstrong, Springer, Dortrecht, 2007, 199 pp., £69 (hardback), ISBN 1‐4020‐5118‐2 This edited collection represents a significant contribution to our understanding of inc
Disability, Dependency and the New Deal for Disabled People
The emergence of the 'New Deal' and its attendant claim to be part of a new political and social future based on the 'third way' seems to offer formerly excluded people new horizons for social inclusion. This paper provides a critical exploration of the likely impact of the 'New Deal' for disabled people. The paper contextualises the 'New Deal' in the wider ideology and rhetoric of 'Welfare to Work'. In doing so, it highlights similarities betwee…
Disabling Pasts, Enabling Futures? How Does the Changing Nature of Capitalism Impact on the Disabled Worker and Jobseeker
This article is a theoretical exploration of debates on the impact of industrial capitalism on disabled people. The article draws on fresh historical evidence to question the monolithic interpretations of the impact of capitalism on disabled people. It looks at the role of old social movements and their potential to complement new social movements in supporting the economic position and policy responses to disabled people. Whilst not denying the …
The Legal Road to Rights? Disabling Premises, Obiter Dicta and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
This article offers a critical exploration of the current limits of the law in establishing and maintaining the rights of disabled people. By offering a critical jurisprudence perspective and applying this to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the article highlights the way in which pre-existing social dynamics underpin the manufacture and application of law. Despite the growth of social constructionist, realist, critical and post-modern vie…
Working Futures?: Disabled People, Policy and Social Inclusion
Pro-'workfare' governments justify their policies by claiming 'workfare' helps enhance self-esteem and promote the dignity of the unemployed. On the other hand, welfare activists argue that 'workfare' suppresses the dignity of unemployed persons. This book examines the concept of human dignity in this context and attempts to clarify its meaning.
Working futures: Disabled people, policy and social inclusion
Applying a barriers approach to monitoring disabled people’s employment: Implications for the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 1
The year 2005 witnessed the passing of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 through Parliament. The Act responds in part to the perceived need for more proactive legislation that seeks to encourage good employer and service provider practice from the outset and diminish discriminatory action. This article focuses on the employment provisions of the 2005 Act. The article is based on a scoping study carried out during the gestation of the Act tha…
More policies, greater inclusion? Exploring the contradictions of New Labour inclusive education policy
The era of New Labour government has witnessed unprecedented growth in inclusive education policies. There is, however, limited evidence that policies have increased disabled children’s inclusion. This article explores reasons for this contradiction. Drawing on sociological insights, it is argued that New Labour policies on inclusive education take their cues from wider neo‐liberal constructions of social exclusion; ideas that point to the person…
Policy, experience and change: Cross cultural reflections on inclusive education
edited by L. Barton and F. Armstrong, Springer, Dortrecht, 2007, 199 pp., £69 (hardback), ISBN 1‐4020‐5118‐2 This edited collection represents a significant contribution to our understanding of inc
Neo-Liberal Individualism or Self-Directed Support: Are We All Speaking the Same Language on Modernising Adult Social Care
This article explores recent developments in the modernisation of adult social care through the lens of changes to English day services. Drawing on wider policy debates, it argues that Disabled Peoples' Movement and governmental ideas on self-directed support, although superficially similar, are growing increasingly apart. It is argued that in the absence of adequate funding and exposure to organisations of disabled people, day service recipients…
Disabled people and self‐directed support schemes: Reconceptualising work and welfare in the 21st century
This article critically explores and adds to research on the social benefits of self‐directed support schemes for disabled people and their families. We argue that, although research to date has defined the benefits of such services within conventional ‘cost–benefit’ frameworks, this approach has failed to address the more significant challenge to traditional models of welfare and, particularly, the role of users of these schemes as employers. Th…
RiDE themed issue – On Disability: Creative Tensions in Applied Theatre: an extended review
RiDE themed issue – On disability: Creative tensions in applied theatre: an extended review
Exploring disability: A sociological introduction. Second edition
by Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer, Cambridge, Polity, 2010, 288 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 13‐978‐0‐7456‐3485‐2, £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 13‐978‐0‐7456‐3486‐9 by Michael Oliver, Basingstoke, Macmil
Between hate and vulnerability: Unpacking the British criminal justice system’s construction of disablist hate crime
Hate crime is now an established term in the fields of racist and religious attacks and is acknowledged in the cultural proscription against attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women. Disabled people, as so often is the case, are late in being afforded statutory recognition in hate crime. This can be explained in terms of wider constructions of disability and more pernicious and muddled constructions of disabled people as ca…
New Technology and Emerging Spaces of Care
New Technology and Emerging Spaces of Care is a multi-disciplinary edited collection that explores the key challenges and implications wrought by changes in new technologies, care contexts and care relationships—both formal and informal. As with many edited collections, themes are wide ranging from SmartHomes, through biological remote preventive monitors/sensors to telecare alarms to alert help. The care contexts examined include home care, hosp…
Understanding disability policy
In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled'. Understanding Disability Policy locates disability po…
New technology and emerging spaces of care
Social policy and transitions to training and work for disabled young people in the United Kingdom: Neo-liberalism for better and for worse
Although New Labour distanced itself from the neo-liberal ‘underclass’ discourses of its predecessors, its approach to disabled young people maintained key aspects of neo-liberalism, particularly an emphasis on individuals’ human capital, aspirations and self-investments as causes of and solutions to disabled young people’s unemployment. This is also apparent in early Coalition government statements. Since the 1990s, policies have focused on prov…
Studying disability: Multiple theories and responses
by Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, 2011, 264 pp., £33.99/$52.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-41-297576-6 This is a multi-disciplinary book that is pitche
Routledge handbook of disability studies
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and consisting entirely of newly commissioned chapters arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting edge areas as well as core areas of contention. Divided in …
Vic Finkelstein, disability rights and lessons for contemporary social work
Flexible and personalised? An evaluation of a UK tailored employment support programme for jobseekers with enduring mental health problems and learning difficulties
The employment position of people with enduring mental health issues and learning difficulties (intellectual impairment) is a major policy and moral challenge. The continued exclusion from paid work for those disabled people who are otherwise keen to work is marked in Western Europe even in high per capita welfare states. The paradox here is that disabled people have received policy and programme attention, but arguably programmes have become inc…
Disability research in the Nordic context – progress and challenges in investment welfare states 1970–2013
Disability research and disability studies in the twenty-first century are almost unrecognisable compared to, for example, work that was completed on disability only 20–30 years ago. Disability research and disability studies may still be constructed as different entities: disability research shading into medical and rehabilitation studies, while disability studies is almost entirely concerned with the social aspects of disability. However, the t…
Being disabled, being a manager: ‘Glass Partitions’ and Conditional Identities in the Contemporary Workplace
This article critically explores the working lives and views of disabled senior staff working in UK organisations. The qualitative research at the core of the article establishes that some disabled people are confounding established notions of disabled people only working in peripheral employment roles by exploring the working lives and perceptions of disabled managers. The findings do, however, point to continued barriers to what disabled staff …
The question of access: Disability, space and meaning
The Question of Access is a book which aims to convey the constructions of access in the context of higher education in Canada and which engages with deeply held (but disavowed) notions of who belo
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