Flipping the Story on Disability and Violence

People with Intellectual Disability and Allies Leading the Change
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-73357-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Internationally there is a growing awareness that domestic, family, and sexual violence is a social issue that results from social structures and relational contexts that have positioned women as ‘less than’ men. Alongside this growing awareness has come social action by women and their allies that aim to change these social and relational structures using an intersectional framing of oppression.

People with disabilities, especially people with intellectual disability, have been largely excluded from this social action. However, for decades they have been challenging the oppressive social and relational structures that frame them as ‘of less value’ than ‘non-disabled’ people. Aligned with this self-advocacy are social ecological models that look systemically to understand why interpersonal violence occurs, and to prevent violence. This book introduces a unique ‘flipped’ social ecological model and applies it to approaches from across the world that are working from the societal, community, relationship and individual levels to challenge the ‘vulnerable victim’ discourse through positioning people with intellectual and other disabilities as social change agents shaping their safer lives.

Divided into six chapters and providing case-examples from Australia, the United States, New Zealand, the UK, Norway, Sweden and the Global South, this book profiles work done by people with intellectual disability and their allies in the government and community-based anti-violence service sector, women’s and sexual health and disability advocacy that is contributing to the social effort to prevent interpersonal violence.

It is a must-read resource for anyone doing interpersonal violence prevention research and work and can be used as primary or supplemental reading for students doing coursework and research in disability studies, gender studies, community psychology, sociology, public health, and social work.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzsimons, Nancy

Frawley, Patsie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Disability, Vulnerability, and Interpersonal Violence Prevention: A Flipped Social Ecological Approach. 2.The Social Level: Social Change – Rights, Opportunities, Equity, and Disability Justice. 3.The Community Level: It takes a Community. Reimagining Community and Strengthening Community Connections. 4.Relationship Level: Family, Friends, Trusted Supporters - Relational and Relationship-based Violence Prevention. 5.The Individual Level: People with Intellectual Disabilities Leading Change. 6.Creating a Global Space for Sustaining Prevention of Violence ‘By’ and ‘With’ People with Disabilities.

Über Autor(innen)

Patsie Frawley, PhD is an Associate Professor at the National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health, UNSW. Patsie has worked for almost four decades alongside people with intellectual disability promoting rights and co-developing approaches to inclusive research.

Nancy Fitzsimons, PhD, MSW, LISW is a Professor of Social Work at Minnesota State University Mankato, teaching courses on policy, advocacy, and community practice. For almost 30 years she has been writing, developing curriculum, delivering presentations, and working on initiatives focused on disability violence prevention.