Almost Equal

Confronting Norms and Normality in Experiencing Visual Disability

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2370752
AutoresHana Porkertová (0000-0002-1011-0356, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume47
Fascículo7-8
Páginas1331-1347
Data de publicação2021-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920520945364
OpenAlexW3048319530
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas43

This article examines the everyday experience of visually disabled people with norms and normality and confronts it with three approaches discussed in disability studies: (i) the medical model, (ii) the social model, and (iii) critical disability studies. The most available model to the people in the study, as well as the most widespread approach in Czech society, is the medical model. However, the text shows that although other approaches are rather marginal, their logic is present in the everyday experience of the communication partners in the research. They can espouse the rigid, medical model, while, at the same time, confronting the construction of norms that both the social model and critical disability studies defy. This finding reveals both the normative and subversive character of disability, manifested in visually impaired experience

Czech · Disability studies · Epistemology · Everyday life · Normality · Normative · Psychiatry · Social model of disability · Sociology · Visual impairment · Disability Rights and Representation · Discrimination and Equality Law · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology