GGRB05H3 Chapter 9: BRANDON GLEESON READING
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There are political, economic, cultural, and spatial dimension of disability oppression. Disabled people face common social disadvantages most commonly used terms for this are disablism and ableism. These terms specify the oppressive experiences disabled people face. Disablement and social oppression describes the multi-dimensional form of oppression. An injustice that is structurally placed w/i society. Disability commentators link disability to many broader sets of oppressive sets such as sex, gender, and race repressed bodies. Five faces of disability oppression (pg 131: exploitation transference of fruits of labour from one group to another (eg. Fraser provides 2 distinct poles of social injustice and oppression. Distributive injustice in political economy requiring redistributive remedies. Fraser believes that the working class provides clearest example of distributive injustice, while gay people provide clearest example of cultural misrecognition. Her view is that both of these forms of oppression (redistributive and cultural) come together in social settings.
