Disabled People and the Intersectional Nature of Social Inclusion

Alexis Buettgen, Fernando Fontes and Susan Eriksson
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Alexis Buettgen: Department of Economics, McMaster University, Canada
Fernando Fontes: Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Susan Eriksson: Juvenia Center of Youth Research and Development, South‐Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Social Inclusion, 2023, vol. 11, issue 4, 287-290

Abstract: This editorial introduces a thematic issue of Social Inclusion focusing on disabled people and the intersectional nature of social inclusion. This thematic issue includes transnational and transdisciplinary studies and expressions of lived experiences facing disabled people, their families, and allies across the globe from a social, human rights, and/or disability justice perspective. The articles comprising this issue include an explicit recognition and discussion of intertwined and socially constructed identities, labels, power, and privilege as explicated by pioneering Black feminists who introduced the concept of intersectionality. Taken together, the articles within this issue identify and articulate the powerful ideological forces and subsequent policies and practices working against transformational action. As such, we are not calling for the inclusion of disabled people into society as it is today—wrought with social, economic, and environmental crises. Rather, we seek a transformation of the status quo whereby disabled people are respected as an inherent part of human diversity with gifts and worthiness untangled from a capitalist and colonial system of exploitation, extraction, and oppression. This means that achieving social justice and inclusion requires radically reordering our economic and political systems. This thematic issue illuminates the impacts and root causes of exclusion to foment critical thinking about the possibilities for social inclusion from the perspective of those who are marginalized by the status quo.

Keywords: disability; disability justice; human rights; intersectionality; social model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.17645/si.v11i4.7798

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