Review of Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order

Authors

  • Nina Worthington Principal Research Fellow, Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University

Abstract

Metanarratives of Disability opens discussion and understandings around cultural, theoretical, and lived experience perspectives of disability. The critical concepts of assumed authority and the normative social order are introduced and investigated alongside multiple metanarratives of disability; that is the dominant social meanings attributed to specific impairments or conditions. Intimate experiential examples of how these pervade real-life situations are shared by the authors, giving deeper meaning to why critical and intrapersonal engagement with these concepts matters.

Author Biography

Nina Worthington, Principal Research Fellow, Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University

Principal Research Fellow, Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University

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Published

2023-11-29

How to Cite

Worthington, N. (2023). Review of Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 12(3), 272–278. Retrieved from https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/1044

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2023)

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Reviews

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