“Well, I Am Now Looking after This Bloody Rabbit!”
Re-Storying Care in the Lives of People with Learning Disabilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24230584 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine Runswick-Cole (0000-0001-9658-9718), Sara Ryan (0000-0002-7406-1610), Martina Smith (0000-0003-2499-4241), Mary J Ward (0009-0008-0312-0661), Charlie Grosset (0009-0005-5593-2184) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 16-27 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1501-7419 • E-ISSN: 1745-3011 |
| Publisher | Stockholm University Press (PUBLISHER • SE) |
| DOI | 10.16993/sjdr.1303 |
| OpenAlex | W7119167372 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper seeks to explore how care has been theorised in ways that have served to exclude people with learning disabilities from being recognised as care-givers, and positioned them, instead, almost exclusively, as passive recipients of care. Working with people with learning disabilities, our aim is to explore, recognise and record caring relationships in their lives, paying attention to the care given as well as the care received by people so labelled. We follow Nishida (2022) to argue that we need to be always attentive to spaces of care as potential sites of (in)justice for people with learning disabilities who engage in caring relationships in messy dependency with others.
Care · care relationships · care spaces · Dependency · Justice · Learning disabilities · Lived experience · restorying · Disability Rights and Representation · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality · Healthcare innovation and challenges
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Care Ethics and Carers with Learning Disabilities
Why are disabled people with learning difficulties being prevented from leading campaigns, projects and initiatives
Making ‘care’ accessible
If We Know What Works, Why Aren't We Doing It
Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Kindness
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Experiences of Grandparenting Disabled Children in the UK
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |