Citizens or consumers? Seeking personhood through ‘personalised’ care in the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11228672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Kate Piantedosi (0000-0003-2428-1153, School of Social Sciences and Humanities La Trobe University Melbourne VIC Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 423-440 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajs4.189 |
| OpenAlex | W3201990112 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding rules determine who can access which supports. However, what is less frequently acknowledged, is that those rules produce an assumed model of personhood. Arguably, this becomes most evident when a case for funding reaches the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, where disputes are resolved between the administrators of the scheme (NDIA) and NDIS participants. In 2019, one such significant and controversial case asserted that ‘WRMF’, a woman living with multiple sclerosis, could use her NDIS funding to pay for the services of a sexual therapist. The basis for this ruling involved complex debates about citizenship and rights, which were embedded in contested notions of the person. In this paper, I use critical discourse analysis to examine these competing claims and the individualised framework in which WRMF's case was debated.
Acknowledgement · Citizenship · Economic Justice · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Social model of disability · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Disability Theory
The Logic of Care
Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis
Adjudicating reasonable and necessary funded supports in the National Disability Insurance Scheme
The Politics of Entitlement and Personalisation
Disability Policy and Active Citizenship
Accountability in Public Service Quasi‐markets
From aims to actions
Opportunities to enhance relational wellbeing through the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Individual Funding for Disability Support
The implementation of complex social policy
Problematising Disability
Reasonable and necessary’ care
The Vexed Question of Market Stewardship in the Public Sector
The personalisation agenda
Facilitated personhood
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |