Dorothy Atkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Atkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkinson |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
An Auto/Biographical Approach to Learning Disability Research
First published in 1997 , Dorothy Atkinson collects testimonies of the personal perspectives of people with learning disability in order to rediscover the histories of people with learning disabilities. Calling on the importance if auto/biographical research as mode to encourage social, historical awareness and potential understanding of the commonalities as well the differences between people with learning difficulties
In Memoriam
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An Oral History of the Ethics of Institutional Closure
This paper examines the ethical dimensions of the closure process of an English large long-stay institution for people with learning difficulties during the last quarter of the twentieth century. It does this primarily through an analysis of oral historical interview data stemming from those managers who implemented rundown. The paper illustrates the ways in which their testimonies indicate the presence of a morally infused dominant rhetoric, whi…
The silence is roaring’
This paper reviews the history of sterilization of women with intellectual disabilities, and considers its relevance to current practice regarding reproductive choice and futures. The paper provides an overview of published research on historical practices, focusing on the UK, the US, Canada and the Nordic countries. Most of this research draws upon written records, centering on eugenics debates. However, emerging oral history testimonies gathere…
History from the inside
This paper reviews the place of the ‘voice’ in the history of intellectual disability, drawing principally on developments in the UK, but also making reference to comparative developments in other countries. Various approaches have been used by research historians to collect and represent the voices of those involved in this history; including biographical reconstruction, oral history, institutional histories and life histories. In response to th…
Written out of History
The field of intellectual disability is an important field of social work practice in both Britain and Australia. Yet this is also a multidisciplinary field in which the role of social workers, particularly women, in contributing to the lives of people with intellectual disability and their families has largely gone unnoticed. Focusing on England and Victoria, Australia in particular, this paper uses oral history interviews with long-standing soc…
Research and empowerment
This paper takes as its central theme the argument that inclusive learning disability research has the potential to be empowering for the people who are involved in it. The author draws from two oral and life history research projects to explore the multiple uses of story‐telling and the multi‐layered picture of learning disability history that emerged. People with learning difficulties were involved in all stages of the research process, contrib…
Using Autobiographical Approaches with People with Learning Difficulties
Biography and autobiography have been used in numerous ways to represent people with learning difficulties. In this paper we review a variety of approaches to biography and autobiography with people with learning difficulties, and discuss the roles researchers play. The paper ends with a discussion of the potential of autobiography as a means to change the power relationships in disability research
Egalitarianism and the Commune
Across the world today the issue of ‘equal rights’ has seized the popular imaginatiop. Whether it involves the rights of women, of less developed nations, of racial or religious groups, the demand for equality has taken on historically unprecedented dimensions.l Yet this evident trend has been accompanied by counter-tendencies. Far from sympathetic to the growing demand, antiegalitarians have proclaimed equality ‘the leading fetish of our time’.2
Soviet and East European Studies in the United States
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies has been engaged over the past several years in a project to collect and analyze information on the Soviet and East European field. Some of the results of the work to date are presented in this report to the profession. The field of Soviet and East European studies is a relative newcomer on the American academic scene. Not until World War II was there any considerable interest in the …
Understanding the Soviets
(1987). Understanding the Soviets: The Development of U.S. Expertise on the USSR. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 183-201
The End of the Russian Land Commune 1905-1930
The End of the Russian Land Commune, 1905-1930
Ivan the Terrible
The Library of the Free Economic Society
The first (and last) Soviet scholar to survey the history of the Imperial Free Economic Society (Imperatorskoe Vol'noe Ekonomicheskoe Obshchestvo, or VEO) arrived at the reasonable conclusion that this important organization deserves far greater notice than it has hitherto received. The same is true of the Society's remarkable and remarkably neglected library, barely mentioned even in the same scholar's monograph but preserved almost intact in Le…
The Politics of Rural Russia, 1905-1914
Women in Russia
Sovetskaia dokolkhoznaia derevnia
Women in Russia
Krest'ianskaia pozemel'no-peredel'naia obshchina v Rossii [The Peasant Repartitional Land Commune in Russia]
Zemel'nye komitety v 1917 godu [The Land Committees in 1917]
Krest'ianskie voiny v Rossii XVII-XVIII vekov
Other Notices
Ten Years after Ivan Denisovich
The Systematization of Russian Government
The silence is roaring’
This paper reviews the history of sterilization of women with intellectual disabilities, and considers its relevance to current practice regarding reproductive choice and futures. The paper provides an overview of published research on historical practices, focusing on the UK, the US, Canada and the Nordic countries. Most of this research draws upon written records, centering on eugenics debates. However, emerging oral history testimonies gathere…
Using Autobiographical Approaches with People with Learning Difficulties
Biography and autobiography have been used in numerous ways to represent people with learning difficulties. In this paper we review a variety of approaches to biography and autobiography with people with learning difficulties, and discuss the roles researchers play. The paper ends with a discussion of the potential of autobiography as a means to change the power relationships in disability research
Research and empowerment
This paper takes as its central theme the argument that inclusive learning disability research has the potential to be empowering for the people who are involved in it. The author draws from two oral and life history research projects to explore the multiple uses of story‐telling and the multi‐layered picture of learning disability history that emerged. People with learning difficulties were involved in all stages of the research process, contrib…
The Politics of Rural Russia, 1905-1914
History from the inside
This paper reviews the place of the ‘voice’ in the history of intellectual disability, drawing principally on developments in the UK, but also making reference to comparative developments in other countries. Various approaches have been used by research historians to collect and represent the voices of those involved in this history; including biographical reconstruction, oral history, institutional histories and life histories. In response to th…
The Systematization of Russian Government
The Statistics on the Russian Land Commune, 1905-1917
Western and Soviet scholars have generally maintained different interpretations of the period between 1905 and 1917 in Russia, describing it respectively as a time of amelioration or of immiseration for the masses. Both groups, however, have stressed the progress of capitalism in prerevolutionary Russia. Despite standard references to the agrarian problem, most of the attention given to socioeconomic development in this period has focused on indu…
Soviet and East European Studies in the United States
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies has been engaged over the past several years in a project to collect and analyze information on the Soviet and East European field. Some of the results of the work to date are presented in this report to the profession. The field of Soviet and East European studies is a relative newcomer on the American academic scene. Not until World War II was there any considerable interest in the …
The End of the Russian Land Commune 1905-1930
Ten Years after Ivan Denisovich
Written out of History
The field of intellectual disability is an important field of social work practice in both Britain and Australia. Yet this is also a multidisciplinary field in which the role of social workers, particularly women, in contributing to the lives of people with intellectual disability and their families has largely gone unnoticed. Focusing on England and Victoria, Australia in particular, this paper uses oral history interviews with long-standing soc…
The Library of the Free Economic Society
The first (and last) Soviet scholar to survey the history of the Imperial Free Economic Society (Imperatorskoe Vol'noe Ekonomicheskoe Obshchestvo, or VEO) arrived at the reasonable conclusion that this important organization deserves far greater notice than it has hitherto received. The same is true of the Society's remarkable and remarkably neglected library, barely mentioned even in the same scholar's monograph but preserved almost intact in Le…
The Awkward Class. Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society
Spoken English
The Awkward Class. Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society
August 1914
The Statistics on the Russian Land Commune, 1905-1917
Western and Soviet scholars have generally maintained different interpretations of the period between 1905 and 1917 in Russia, describing it respectively as a time of amelioration or of immiseration for the masses. Both groups, however, have stressed the progress of capitalism in prerevolutionary Russia. Despite standard references to the agrarian problem, most of the attention given to socioeconomic development in this period has focused on indu…
Ten Years after Ivan Denisovich
The Systematization of Russian Government
Other Notices
Krest'ianskie voiny v Rossii XVII-XVIII vekov
Zemel'nye komitety v 1917 godu [The Land Committees in 1917]
Krest'ianskaia pozemel'no-peredel'naia obshchina v Rossii [The Peasant Repartitional Land Commune in Russia]
Women in Russia
Sovetskaia dokolkhoznaia derevnia
Women in Russia
The Library of the Free Economic Society
The first (and last) Soviet scholar to survey the history of the Imperial Free Economic Society (Imperatorskoe Vol'noe Ekonomicheskoe Obshchestvo, or VEO) arrived at the reasonable conclusion that this important organization deserves far greater notice than it has hitherto received. The same is true of the Society's remarkable and remarkably neglected library, barely mentioned even in the same scholar's monograph but preserved almost intact in Le…
The Politics of Rural Russia, 1905-1914
Ivan the Terrible
The End of the Russian Land Commune 1905-1930
The End of the Russian Land Commune, 1905-1930
Understanding the Soviets
(1987). Understanding the Soviets: The Development of U.S. Expertise on the USSR. The Washington Quarterly: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 183-201
Soviet and East European Studies in the United States
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies has been engaged over the past several years in a project to collect and analyze information on the Soviet and East European field. Some of the results of the work to date are presented in this report to the profession. The field of Soviet and East European studies is a relative newcomer on the American academic scene. Not until World War II was there any considerable interest in the …
Egalitarianism and the Commune
Across the world today the issue of ‘equal rights’ has seized the popular imaginatiop. Whether it involves the rights of women, of less developed nations, of racial or religious groups, the demand for equality has taken on historically unprecedented dimensions.l Yet this evident trend has been accompanied by counter-tendencies. Far from sympathetic to the growing demand, antiegalitarians have proclaimed equality ‘the leading fetish of our time’.2
Using Autobiographical Approaches with People with Learning Difficulties
Biography and autobiography have been used in numerous ways to represent people with learning difficulties. In this paper we review a variety of approaches to biography and autobiography with people with learning difficulties, and discuss the roles researchers play. The paper ends with a discussion of the potential of autobiography as a means to change the power relationships in disability research
Research and empowerment
This paper takes as its central theme the argument that inclusive learning disability research has the potential to be empowering for the people who are involved in it. The author draws from two oral and life history research projects to explore the multiple uses of story‐telling and the multi‐layered picture of learning disability history that emerged. People with learning difficulties were involved in all stages of the research process, contrib…
History from the inside
This paper reviews the place of the ‘voice’ in the history of intellectual disability, drawing principally on developments in the UK, but also making reference to comparative developments in other countries. Various approaches have been used by research historians to collect and represent the voices of those involved in this history; including biographical reconstruction, oral history, institutional histories and life histories. In response to th…
Written out of History
The field of intellectual disability is an important field of social work practice in both Britain and Australia. Yet this is also a multidisciplinary field in which the role of social workers, particularly women, in contributing to the lives of people with intellectual disability and their families has largely gone unnoticed. Focusing on England and Victoria, Australia in particular, this paper uses oral history interviews with long-standing soc…
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