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    Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world

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    Open access
    Authors
    Ellis, Katie
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Ellis, Katie. 2013. Breakdown is built into it: a politics of resilience in a disabling world. M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture. 16 (5).
    Source Title
    M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture
    Additional URLs
    http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/707
    ISSN
    1441-2616
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    This article is published under the Open Access publishing model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Please refer to the licence to obtain terms for any further reuse or distribution of this work.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36521
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    My aim in this paper is to engage with definitions of disability and resilience. Despite the changing social position of people with disabilities in the community, notions of resilience are often invoked to describe the experience of people with disability and attributes of successful (often considered ‘inspiring’) people with disability. Drawing on Runswick-Cole and Goodley’s argument that individualising qualities of resilience in inspirational people with disabilities has not benefitted people with disabilities, this paper reveals the importance of resilience as a response to social oppression. People with disabilities in their formation of a disability cultural movement are reworking and redefining resilience as a response to oppression.

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