Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality
What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4446540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Flynn (0000-0002-2807-0866, School of Social Work and Social Policy Trinity College Dublin The University of Dublin Dublin Ireland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soru.12471 |
| OpenAlex | W4391649557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 61 |
The specific intention of this article is to question how rural life may affect everyday issues of concern for disabled children and their families, including access to services, social connectedness and quality of life. A theoretical frame of critical disability studies and intersectionality is taken up for this work. As critical disability studies scholarship forges productive theoretical alliances with other social agendas linked to identity, such as feminism and critical race theory, it is accordingly insistent upon going beyond a siloed fixation on disability. A defining contention is that disability ought not to be the sole focus of theoretical and socio-political agendas that seek to solve the problems that disabled communities face. It is therefore only fitting that any treatment of the convergence of childhood disability and rurality might draw intersectionality theory into its conceptual remit. As such, this article presents a reading of disability, intersectionality and rurality through a critical disability studies lens, recognising critical disability studies as a theoretical methodology. To substantiate the theoretical component of the article, a scoping review method is employed to source literature through a replicable, transparent approach. The article encourages a better understanding about how rurality may affect the lives of disabled children and their families whilst recognising that disability is not the only important identity position to consider
Disability studies · Intersectionality · Medical model of disability · Political science · Rural area · Rurality · Scholarship · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Psychology
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Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies
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Approaches that Address Social Inclusion for Children with Disabilities
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies
Contours of Ableism
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Access to Primary Health Care Among Persons With Disabilities in Rural Areas
Trajectories of social justice within social stratification
Integrating critical disability studies into social work education and practice
Rural–urban patterns of disability
Migration and Health in England and Scotland
Engaging with materialism and material reality
Dis/entangling critical disability studies
The socio‐economic circumstances of children at risk of disability in Britain
Disability, hate crime and violence
Child protection and welfare risks and opportunities related to disability and internet use
Convergent identities, compounded risk
The Impact of Salmon Bias on the Hispanic Mortality Advantage
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Mapping the Margins
Do U.S. states' socioeconomic and policy contexts shape adult disability
Provocations for Critical Disability Studies
Sociology of Rural Life
What's so 'critical' about critical disability studies
Scoping studies
Healthy migrant and salmon bias hypotheses
Rural Sociologists at Work
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |