I will be updating this page with the reading recommendations I consider useful for everyone interested in disability studies. Considering that the publications listed here are available only in the English language, this list of recommendations also constitutes the proposal for publishers from Serbia for translation into the Serbian language which might lay the foundation for disability studies in Serbia.
- Lawson, A. and Beckett, A.E. 2021. The social and human rights models of disability: towards a complementarity thesis. The international journal of human rights. 25(2), pp.348–379. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1783533
In this article, Anna Lawson and Angharad Beckett, co-directors of the Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds, introduce conceptual clarity vis-à-vis the social model and human rights model of disability. Many disability activists or even academic writers use these concepts interchangeably or present the human rights model of disability as the ultimate and the most progressive stage of development of disability models. The authors clarify that the two models serve different purposes. The social model of disability describes disability as a form of social oppression and serves to identify the factors which disable people with impairments while the human rights model is better understood as a model of disability policy which prescribes the route towards the full realization of disability rights.