Author: Sheldon, Alison

Source: Disability & Society, Volume 24, Number 5, August 2009 , pp. 667-671(5)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

If, as many theorists have suggested, disability is intimately related to the economy, then we can expect that the current recession will have an impact on the way that disability is both experienced and conceptualised. Here some of the likely impacts of the economic downturn will be outlined and ways in which disability activists and academics might best address themselves to the situation considered.

Keywords: academia; activism; capitalism; economics

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687590903011139

Affiliations: 1: Centre for Disability Studies, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, Leeds

Publication date: 2009-08-01

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