Promises Promises : Disability and Terms of Inclusion

Author Mike Clear brings together research, analysis, and the insights of disabled writers in a detailed and critical study structured around three parts: 1) personal dialogues that provide sensitive insights into personal experiences and the nature of a disabling society; 2) chapters describing and critically appraising the policy and legislative landscape; and 3) four critical perspectives on key relevant social issues: access, telecommunications, cultural representation, and the politics of care. He finds that there have been important gains, based largely on human rights initiatives and the efforts and skill of disabled people themselves. However, the inclusion of disabled people is carefully managed by governments. It is turned on and turned off as ideology and policy priorities dictate. Do these gains reflect a promise kept? Not while people who have impairment and their associates (less directly) continue to be systematically alienated. And not, as this book reveals, whilst Australian economic, social, and cultural systems remain so fundamentally unchanged.Clear, Mike is the author of 'Promises Promises : Disability and Terms of Inclusion', published 2000 under ISBN 9781862873742 and ISBN 1862873747.