Towards an Affirmation Model of Disability

By J. Swain, S. French. 2000

664 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Brett W. Smith
2. A. Sparkes
3. Kerry R. McGannon
4. K. Douglas
5. D. Carless
6. C. Phoenix
7. Katina Zammit
8. Wen Xu

In Safety Research

1. Brett W. Smith
2. A. Sparkes
3. S. Peters
4. Rosalyn B. Darling
5. D. Alex Heckert

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Brett W. Smith
2. A. Sparkes
3. Rosalyn B. Darling
4. D. Alex Heckert
5. Kerry R. McGannon
6. Peter Mcilveen
7. K. Douglas
8. D. Carless

Citations in the corpus

• Narrative and its potential contribution to disability studies (2008, background): “certain narratives, such as the affirmative model of disability (Swain and French 2000 ), quest narrative (Frank 1995 ) or collective stories (Richardson 1990 ), can provide alternative maps and different emplotments regarding disability and impairment that refuse and displace the tragedy story, ”
• Orientations Toward Disability: Differences over the lifecourse (2010, background): “Swain and French ( 2000 ) described an “affirmation model” in which disability is viewed as part of a positive social identity rather than as a personal tragedy.”
• Men, sport, spinal cord injury and the construction of coherence: narrative practice in action (2002, methodology): “According to Swain and French (2000), the affirmative model originated in direct ‘opposition to the dominant personal tragedy model of disability and impairment, and builds on the liberatory imperative of the social model’ (p. 569).”
• Presage of a paradigm shift? Beyond the social model of disability toward resistance theories of disability (2004, background): “Finally, Swain and French (2000) promote an affirmative model of disability based on a culture that is ‘proud, angry and strong.’”
• The autism predicament: models of autism and their impact on autistic identity (2021, neutral): “(Swain and French 2000, 578)”
• Redefining Disability, Re-imagining the Self: Disability Identification Predicts Self-esteem and Strategic Responses to Stigma (2013, background): “Similarly, Swain and French (2000) proposed an affirmation model whereby disability is considered a positive social identity in contrast to a personal tragedy.”