Colin Barnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Barnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnes |
| SIGNATURE | BARNES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6422-8045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 479 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 41 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Understanding the social model of disability
This chapter examines the origins of the social model. It addresses the various debates that have emerged since the late 1990s and argue that, without the social model of disability, disability studies will be rendered meaningless. In order to understand the significance of the implications of social model reasoning it is important to remember that ‘disability’ was viewed almost exclusively as an individual medical problem or a ‘personal tragedy’…
The New Politics of Disablement
Introduction.- PART I: CONCEPTS AND ORIGINS The Importance of Definitions in the Disablility Debate.- The Origins of Disability Studies.- The Rise of Disabling Capitalism.- PART II: REPRESENTATIONS AND DISCOURSES Ideology and the Disabled Individual.- Constructing Disabled Identities.- Creating the Disability Problem.- PART III: AGENDAS AND ACTIONS Dealing with Disabling Society.- Resisting the Disabling Society.- Doing Disability Studies
Re‐thinking Disability, Work and Welfare
There is a wealth of evidence that disabled people experience far higher levels of unemployment and underemployment than non‐disabled peers. Yet hitherto sociologists have paid scant attention to the structural causes of this issue. Drawing on a socio/political or social model of disability perspective this paper argues for a reconfiguration of the meaning of disability and work in order to address this problem. It is also suggested that such a s…
Back to the future
The World Health Report on Disability 2011 produced by the World Health Organisation and World Bank was launched recently and was followed by a panel discussion at the United Nations in New York at
The problem body
edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic, Columbus, The Ohio State University Press, 2010, 239 pp., $49.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-81-421124-3, $14.95 (CD), ISBN 978-0-81-429222-8 by Sally Chiver
Disability, politics and poverty in a majority world context
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 depri…
Disability studies, disabled people and the struggle for inclusion
This paper traces the relationship between the emergence of disability studies and the struggle for meaningful inclusion for disabled people with particular reference to the work of a pivotal figure in these developments: Len Barton. It is argued that the links between disability activism and the academy were responsible for the emergence of disability studies and that this has had an important influence on mainstream sociology and social and edu…
Cultures of welfare at the front line
Direct payments are central to UK independent living and welfare modernisation agendas, however, little is known about the local cultures of welfare within which they are implemented. This article uses eight case studies of devolved governance within local authorities and trusts to explore the dynamics of implementation cultures at the front line. While national and local policies are clearly important, so too are political cultures, commissionin…
Disabled people and self‐directed support schemes
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…
Talking about us without us?’. A response to Neil Crowther
In Volume 22 Number 7 of Disability & Society Neil Crowther of the recently formed Equality and Human Rights Commission provided his interpretation of the current situation of disability politics in the UK. Besides acknowledging the pioneering role organisations controlled and run by disabled people had played in the struggle for the eradication of disabling barriers, he suggests that the challenges facing disabled people are increasingly differe…
Impairment and Disability
Direct Payments and their Future
Recent policy developments in the general area of disability have presented a whole range of ethical dilemmas for everyone involved in the development and delivery of services for disabled people at the national and local levels. This is almost certainly due to government acceptance of the principles of independent living and the social model of disability, and greater user involvement and control of support services, in particular ‘direct paymen…
Disability, higher education and the inclusive society
Much has changed over recent years with regard to disability and higher education. Until the 1990s, most British universities were virtually inaccessible to disabled students and staff (Barnes, 199
Citizenship and Vulnerability
Independent Futures. Creating User-led Disability Services in a Disabling Society
The number of disability related support services controlled and run by disabled people themselves has increased significantly in the UK and internationally over the past forty years. As a result, greater user involvement in service provision and delivery is a key priority for many western governments. This book provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of these developments in the UK. Drawing on evidence from a range of sources, inclu…
Direct Payments and Disabled People in the UK
Direct payments have brought new opportunities for self-determination and independent living to disabled people in the UK, featuring prominently in government strategy and the 2006 White Paper, ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’. However, ten years after direct payments legislation, take-up remains low and implementation varies greatly. Rates of take-up in England remain more than double those in other parts of the UK, raising questions about devolu…
Working Futures?
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.
Social Policy Review 17
Working futures
The Development of Direct Payments in the UK
Direct payments have been heralded by the disability movement as an important means to achieving independent living and hence greater social justice for disabled people through enhanced recognition as well as financial redistribution. Drawing on data from the ESRC funded project Disabled People and Direct Payments: A UK Comparative Perspective, this paper presents an analysis of policy and official statistics on use of direct payments across the …
Disability, work, and welfare
This article engages with debates relating to social policy and disabled people's exclusion from the British labour market. Drawing on recent developments from within the disabled people's movement, in particular, the concept of independent living and the social model of disability, and the associated disability studies literature, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to d…
Disabling barriers--enabling environments
Obituary
Disability, Disability Studies and Citizenship
Michael J. Prince, Disability, Disability Studies and Citizenship: Moving up or off the Sociological Agenda?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer, 2004), pp. 459-467
Rehabilitation for disabled people
This paper argues that the relationship between disability and rehabilitation is best explained in terms of three distinct but related definitions of disability. The first is the orthodox ‘individualistic’ medical definition; the second, is the more liberal ‘inter‐relational’ account and; the third, is the ‘radical’ socio/political interpretation commonly referred to as the ‘social model of disability’. By adopting the latter it is suggested that…
Disability, work, and welfare
This article engages with debates relating to social policy and disabled people's exclusion from the British labour market. Drawing on recent developments from within the disabled people's movement, in particular, the concept of independent living and the social model of disability, and the associated disability studies literature, a critical evaluation of orthodox sociological theories of work, unemployment, and under-employment in relation to d…
What a Difference a Decade Makes
This paper provides a broad-based overview of the development of emancipa tory disability research in the UK since its emergence in 1992. Drawing on personal experience in the field, the author responds to several important considerations that need to be addressed before considering adopting this controversial perspective. The paper is divided into two main sections. The first part provides a concise introduction to the thinking that underpins th…
A working social model? Disability, work and disability politics in the 21st century
Following recent developments in the theoretical and general understanding of disability and social policy, this article addresses the complex and changing relationship between the 'social model of disability', work and politics. It is suggested that within a social model framework, the conceptualizations of disability and work are interdependent, that recent policy developments in the employment field are likely to have only a marginal effect on…
Disability and the Myth of the Independent Researcher
(1996). Disability and the Myth of the Independent Researcher. Disability & Society: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 107-112
Disability Rights
(1995). Disability Rights: rhetoric and reality in the UK. Disability & Society: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 111-116
Disability, politics and poverty in a majority world context
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 depri…
The Development of Direct Payments in the UK
Direct payments have been heralded by the disability movement as an important means to achieving independent living and hence greater social justice for disabled people through enhanced recognition as well as financial redistribution. Drawing on data from the ESRC funded project Disabled People and Direct Payments: A UK Comparative Perspective, this paper presents an analysis of policy and official statistics on use of direct payments across the …
Disabled people and self‐directed support schemes
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…
Disability and Paid Employment
H. Barnes, P. Thornton and S. Maynard-Campbell, Disabled People and Employment: A Review of Research and Development Work, York: The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1998, £11.95.A. Roulstone, Enabling Technology: Disabled People, Work and New Technology, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1998, £45.00, paper £14.99, 160 pp.K. Simons, Home, Work and Inclusion: The Social Policy Implications of Supported Living and Employment Opportunities for Peopl…
Disability studies, disabled people and the struggle for inclusion
This paper traces the relationship between the emergence of disability studies and the struggle for meaningful inclusion for disabled people with particular reference to the work of a pivotal figure in these developments: Len Barton. It is argued that the links between disability activism and the academy were responsible for the emergence of disability studies and that this has had an important influence on mainstream sociology and social and edu…
Disability Studies
(1999). Disability Studies: New or not so new directions? Disability & Society: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 577-580
Re‐thinking Disability, Work and Welfare
There is a wealth of evidence that disabled people experience far higher levels of unemployment and underemployment than non‐disabled peers. Yet hitherto sociologists have paid scant attention to the structural causes of this issue. Drawing on a socio/political or social model of disability perspective this paper argues for a reconfiguration of the meaning of disability and work in order to address this problem. It is also suggested that such a s…
Cultures of welfare at the front line
Direct payments are central to UK independent living and welfare modernisation agendas, however, little is known about the local cultures of welfare within which they are implemented. This article uses eight case studies of devolved governance within local authorities and trusts to explore the dynamics of implementation cultures at the front line. While national and local policies are clearly important, so too are political cultures, commissionin…
Direct Payments and Disabled People in the UK
Direct payments have brought new opportunities for self-determination and independent living to disabled people in the UK, featuring prominently in government strategy and the 2006 White Paper, ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’. However, ten years after direct payments legislation, take-up remains low and implementation varies greatly. Rates of take-up in England remain more than double those in other parts of the UK, raising questions about devolu…
Introduction
Current Issues All We Are Saying is Give Disabled Researchers a Chance
(1997). CURRENT ISSUES All We Are Saying is Give Disabled Researchers a Chance. Disability & Society: Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 811-814
Independent Futures. Creating User-led Disability Services in a Disabling Society
The number of disability related support services controlled and run by disabled people themselves has increased significantly in the UK and internationally over the past forty years. As a result, greater user involvement in service provision and delivery is a key priority for many western governments. This book provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of these developments in the UK. Drawing on evidence from a range of sources, inclu…
Rehabilitation for disabled people
This paper argues that the relationship between disability and rehabilitation is best explained in terms of three distinct but related definitions of disability. The first is the orthodox ‘individualistic’ medical definition; the second, is the more liberal ‘inter‐relational’ account and; the third, is the ‘radical’ socio/political interpretation commonly referred to as the ‘social model of disability’. By adopting the latter it is suggested that…
Institutional discrimination against disabled people and the campaign for anti- discrimination legislation
Back to the future
The World Health Report on Disability 2011 produced by the World Health Organisation and World Bank was launched recently and was followed by a panel discussion at the United Nations in New York at
Disability, higher education and the inclusive society
Much has changed over recent years with regard to disability and higher education. Until the 1990s, most British universities were virtually inaccessible to disabled students and staff (Barnes, 199
Talking about us without us?’. A response to Neil Crowther
In Volume 22 Number 7 of Disability & Society Neil Crowther of the recently formed Equality and Human Rights Commission provided his interpretation of the current situation of disability politics in the UK. Besides acknowledging the pioneering role organisations controlled and run by disabled people had played in the struggle for the eradication of disabling barriers, he suggests that the challenges facing disabled people are increasingly differe…
Direct Payments and their Future
Recent policy developments in the general area of disability have presented a whole range of ethical dilemmas for everyone involved in the development and delivery of services for disabled people at the national and local levels. This is almost certainly due to government acceptance of the principles of independent living and the social model of disability, and greater user involvement and control of support services, in particular ‘direct paymen…
The problem body
edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic, Columbus, The Ohio State University Press, 2010, 239 pp., $49.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-81-421124-3, $14.95 (CD), ISBN 978-0-81-429222-8 by Sally Chiver
The Transjordan Frontier Force
Severe Physical Disability
Qualitative Research
This paper evaluates qualitative research methods in relation to the emancipatory research model. It identifies the main reasons why researchers opt for qualitative research, describes the principal data collection techniques used by them, and discusses some of the problems associated with these procedures. Drawing on insights gained from doing qualitative research in day centres for disabled young adults, I argue that these methodologies are fun…
Dependency to Enterprise
Images of Disability on Television
Institutional discrimination against disabled people and the campaign for anti- discrimination legislation
Blind and Partially Sighted Children in Britain
(1994). Blind and Partially Sighted Children in Britain: The RNIB Survey. Disability & Society: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 106-108
Disability, cultural representation and language
Disability Rights
(1995). Disability Rights: rhetoric and reality in the UK. Disability & Society: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 111-116
Disability and the Myth of the Independent Researcher
(1996). Disability and the Myth of the Independent Researcher. Disability & Society: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 107-112
Current Issues All We Are Saying is Give Disabled Researchers a Chance
(1997). CURRENT ISSUES All We Are Saying is Give Disabled Researchers a Chance. Disability & Society: Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 811-814
Disability Studies
(1999). Disability Studies: New or not so new directions? Disability & Society: Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 577-580
Extended Review
Disability and Paid Employment
H. Barnes, P. Thornton and S. Maynard-Campbell, Disabled People and Employment: A Review of Research and Development Work, York: The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1998, £11.95.A. Roulstone, Enabling Technology: Disabled People, Work and New Technology, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1998, £45.00, paper £14.99, 160 pp.K. Simons, Home, Work and Inclusion: The Social Policy Implications of Supported Living and Employment Opportunities for Peopl…
A working social model? Disability, work and disability politics in the 21st century
Following recent developments in the theoretical and general understanding of disability and social policy, this article addresses the complex and changing relationship between the 'social model of disability', work and politics. It is suggested that within a social model framework, the conceptualizations of disability and work are interdependent, that recent policy developments in the employment field are likely to have only a marginal effect on…
Introduction
Rehabilitation for disabled people
This paper argues that the relationship between disability and rehabilitation is best explained in terms of three distinct but related definitions of disability. The first is the orthodox ‘individualistic’ medical definition; the second, is the more liberal ‘inter‐relational’ account and; the third, is the ‘radical’ socio/political interpretation commonly referred to as the ‘social model of disability’. By adopting the latter it is suggested that…
What a Difference a Decade Makes
This paper provides a broad-based overview of the development of emancipa tory disability research in the UK since its emergence in 1992. Drawing on personal experience in the field, the author responds to several important considerations that need to be addressed before considering adopting this controversial perspective. The paper is divided into two main sections. The first part provides a concise introduction to the thinking that underpins th…
Sovereignty, identity and modernity -- understanding Ethiopia
Journal Article Sovereignty, identity and modernity — understanding Ethiopia Get access Cedric Barnes Cedric Barnes Cedric Barnes is a British Academy Post‐Doctoral Fellow in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa, SOAS, University of London, where he is researching the political uses of Somali oral poetry in the Ethiopian‐Somali borderlands, and teaching an undergraduate course on Ethiopian history and culture. Search for other w…
Disabling barriers--enabling environments
Obituary
Disability, Disability Studies and Citizenship
Michael J. Prince, Disability, Disability Studies and Citizenship: Moving up or off the Sociological Agenda?, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer, 2004), pp. 459-467
Working Futures?
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.
Social Policy Review 17
Working futures
Sociology (28 works) · Political science (27 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Law (22 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (21 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Gender Studies (12 works)