Well, I Know this is Going to Sound Very Strange to You, but I Don't See Myself as a Disabled Person: Identity and disability

By N. Watson. 2002

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

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Redefining Disability, Re-imagining the Self: Disability Identification Predicts Self-esteem and Strategic Responses to Stigma (2013, background): “…disabled and non-disabled categories is relatively permeable, and therefore the individualistic strategy of passing as non-disabled is more viable and more likely to be used than for those with more observable disabilities (Lalonde & Silverman, 1994; Rapley, Kiernan, & Antaki, 1998; Watson, 2002).”
The path of least resistance: a voice‐relational analysis of disabled students’ experiences of discrimination in English universities (2011, background): “They come with different stories, different narrated identities (Somers 1994) and may not even see their impairment as an important part of their identity (Watson 2002).”
Repositioning mothers: mothers, disabled children and disability studies (2008, background): “This gap has also been highlighted by Watson ( 2002 ) and, arguably, this is an area that warrants further exploration.”
Conceptualizing Disability (2005, background): “In a recently published qualitative study, Watson reports that positive self-identity among persons with disabilities does not necessarily indicate adherence to a political identity based on disability status, suggesting that the parameters of individual disability identity are in as early a phase o”
Disability in the Workplace (2016, background): “Identity also involves a worker’s own subjective appraisal of the existence of self-defining features that may or may not reflect absolute or objective criteria (Roccas & Brewer, 2002; Watson, 2002).”
Disabled people's attitudes toward other impairment groups: a hierarchy of impairments (2003, background): “Watson (2002) concludes that, whilst disabled people share the common characteristic of having an impairment, this is not enough to sustain the notion of a common identity.”
Psycho-emotional dimensions of disability and the social model (2004, background): “Consequently, as Watson (2002) points out, this lack of a collective identity for people with impairments has consequences for who the disabled people’s movement and the associated organisations of disabled people are actually representing.”